لو

• IPA^(key): /lev/

لو (transliteration needed)

1. lip

Compare Hebrew לוּ (lū).

• IPA^(key): /law/

لَوْ • (law)

1. if (contrary to fact)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:22:

     لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَا آلِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهُ لَفَسَدَتَا

     law kāna fīhimā ʔālihatun ʔillā llāhu la-fasadatā

     Had there been within the heavens and earth gods besides Allah, they both would have been ruined.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:100:

     أَوَلَمْ يَهْدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِن بَعْدِ أَهْلِهَا أَن لَّوْ نَشَاءُ أَصَبْنَاهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَنَطْبَعُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

     ʔawalam yahdi li-llaḏīna yariṯūna l-ʔarḍa min baʕdi ʔahlihā ʔan llaw našāʔu ʔaṣabnāhum bi-ḏunūbihim wa-naṭbaʕu ʕalā qulūbihim fahum lā yasmaʕūna

     Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.

2. that (often used with the verb وَدَّ (wadda))
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 70:11:

     يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ

     yawaddu l-mujrimu law yaftadī min ʕaḏābi yawmiʔiḏin bi-banīhi

     The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 15:2:

     رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ

     rubamā yawaddu allaḏīna kafarū law kānū muslimīna

     Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims.

3. if only
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:167:

     وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّبَعُوا لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةً فَنَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَبَرَّؤُوا مِنَّا

     wa-qāla llaḏīna ttabaʕū law ʔanna lanā karratan fa-natabarraʔa minhum kamā tabarraʔū minnā

     Those who followed will say, "If only we had another turn [at worldly life] so we could disassociate ourselves from them as they have disassociated themselves from us."

• Normally used for conditions that are contrary-to-fact (unlikely to be fulfilled or incapable of being fulfilled). For possible (not contrary-to-fact) conditions, use إِنْ (ʔin).
• Used with the past tense or the present tense, in both cases with a present-tense meaning (although normally translated in English with a past tense).

• لَوْلَا (lawlā)

• Gulf Arabic: لو (law)
• South Levantine Arabic: لو (law)

From Arabic لَوْ (law).

لو • (law)

1. if

   هو لو كان هنا كان قتلك

   huwwa law kān hina kān ʔatalak

   If he were here, he would've killed you.

• لولا (lawla)
• ولو (walaw)

• إذا (ʔiza, “if”), إن (ʔin, “if”)

لُو (lov) (definite accusative لُووُ, plural لُولار)

1. Arabic spelling of lov (“lip”)

Northwestern Iranian variant of لب (lab, “lip”), see it.

Readings
Classical reading?	law
Dari reading?	law
Iranian reading?	low, lu
Tajik reading?	lav

لو • (low)

1. (dialectal, Dashtestan) lip

   Synonyms: لب (lab), لنج (lonj), لفچ (lafč), لفج (lafj)

2. hill
3. gall
4. a kind of sweet
5. grotto, hollowed-out retreat fit for cattle

• Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎^[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 119 Nr. 348
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “لو”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1101a
• Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname‎^[3] (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 751a

From Arabic لَو (law).

• IPA^(key): /law/, [law]

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لو • (law)

1. if (hypothetical condition)

   Synonym: لونّـ (lawenn-)

2. polite request (Could you ...?)

• لولا (lawla, lōla, “if not (hypothetical)”)

• إذا (ʔiza, “if”), إن (ʔin, “if”), إنكنّـ (ʔin-kann-, “if”)
• ياريت (yārēt, “if only (wish, hope)”)

لو (low)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) lip