لوری

Ottoman Turkish

لوری

Etymology

Borrowed from French lori, itself from Malay luri.

Noun

لوری • (lori, lory)

1. lorikeet, lory, any of various brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia

Descendants

• Turkish: lori

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lori”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2980
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1645

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀮𑁄𑀭 (lora), 𑀮𑁄𑀮 (lola) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇𑀓𑀸- (-ikā-), from Sanskrit लोल (lola).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /loː.ɾiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

لوری • (lorī) f (Hindi spelling लोरी)

1. lullaby

Declension

Declension of لوری
	singular	plural
direct	لوری (lorī)	لورِیاں (loriyā̃)
oblique	لوری (lorī)	لورِیوں (loriyō̃)
vocative	لوری (lorī)	لورِیو (loriyō)

References

• “لوری”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “لوری”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*lōḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 649