LU-LUとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈluːluː/
• 韻: -uːlu

語源 1

A reduplication of Lu, a clipping of given names with the first syllable of Lu, Lou, such as Lucy, Lucille, Louise, Louisa.

別の表記

• Loulou

固有名詞

Lulu (plural Lulus or Lulues)

1. A female given name.
   • 1860, Minnie S. Davis, “The Rival School-Mates”, in The Ladies' Repository, volumes 28-29, A. Tompkins, page 500:

     "Do excuse me, and forgive my inquisitiveness. I was struck with the name Lulu." "You think it a baby name," she said, laughing. "O, no; it is wonderfully sweet to me! and may I sometimes call you so?"

   • 1920, Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett:

     There emerged from the fringe of things, where she perpetually hovered, Mrs. Deacon's older sister, Lulu Bett, who was "making her home with us." And that was precisely the case. They were not making her a home, goodness knows. Lulu was the family beast of burden.

   1. A diminutive of the female given names Louisa, Louise, Lucy, or Lucille.

使用する際の注意点

• Fairly popular as a formal given name in the latter half of the 19th century.

関連する語

語源 2

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Borrowed from Chinese 璐璐, 露露, 璐露, 露璐, etc.; in turn from 璐, 露, etc. From the Chinese practice of reduplicating a syllable or character to create a female name.

• From Mandarin Lù Lù, Lù-Lù, Lù-lù, Lùlù / Lu4lu4 / ㄌㄨˋㄌㄨˋ; in turn from Lù/lù, ㄌㄨˋ, Lu4/lu4. From Middle Chinese luH/LuH
• From Cantonese Lou6lou6; in turn from Lou6/lou6. From Middle Chinese luH/LuH
• From Taishanese Lu5lu5; in turn from Lu5/lu5. From Middle Chinese luH/LuH

別の表記

• Lu Lu, Lu-Lu, Lu-lu, Lou Lou, Lou-Lou, Lou-lou, Loulou

固有名詞

Lulu (plural Lulus or Lulues)

1. A female given name from Chinese.

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語源 3

From Arabic لُؤْلُؤ (luʔluʔ, literally “pearl”).

固有名詞

Lulu (plural Lulus)

1. A unisex given name from Arabic.
   1. A female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Pearl.

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