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luku

Pronunciation: /ˈluku/

“luku” is a Finnish word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. number (abstract entity used to describe quantity; in mathematics, a concept such as a natural number, rational number or real number)
  2. number, count, quantity (a number indicating how many of something there are)
  3. head count (the act of counting the number of persons present by having them call out numbers starting with one; also an interjection ordering a group to do so)
  4. chapter (one of the main section into which the text of a book is divided; one of the main part in a legal statute)
  5. text, writing, something that can be read
  6. reading
  7. reading, studying
  8. chapter (division in a legal statute)
  9. number (the state of being singular, dual or plural)
  10. together with a year, used to indicate decade, century or sometimes even millennium; expressed by using the plural number in English
  11. spell (words, incantation)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *luku. Equivalent to lukea (“to read, count”) + -u. The grammatical and mathematical senses are from the 19th century.

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