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A character in Lum and Abner, American radio comedy (short for the name Columbus) Lum (Urusei Yatsura), a character from Urusei Yatsura. Urusei Yatsura, Japanese manga series sometimes referred to as Lum; Lum the Mad (Greyhawk), a character from the Greyhawk campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
Lín , spelled Lum based on its Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping: Lam4; Cantonese Yale: Làhm) Lán ( 藍 ), spelled Lum based on its Hakka pronunciation The English surname Lum is a variant spelling of Lumb , which originated either as a toponymic surname referring to Lumb in Lancashire , or from the Middle English word lum ("pool").
While the term is endemic to San Francisco, the origins of "hoodlum" are unclear. Possible explanations include: Dennis Kearney's rally call to "huddle 'em up", organizing unemployed Irishmen prior to attacking and looting Chinese people and businesses; [5] a derivation from the Swabian word hudelum ("disorderly") or the Bavarian Haderlump ("ragamuffin"); [6] [7] or derived from a gang named ...
In Cantonese-speaking regions such as Hong Kong and Macau it is spelled as Lam or Lum. It is listed 147th on the Hundred Family Surnames. Within mainland China, it is currently the 18th most common surname. In Japan, the character 林 is also used but goes by the pronunciation Hayashi, which is the 19th most common surname in Japan.
According to the Tang dynasty genealogy text Yuanhe Xing Zuan, the surname Lu 盧 originated in the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period, and descended from Gao Xi (高傒). Gao Xi was the grandson of Prince Gao, who was a son of Duke Wen of Qi (reigned 815–804 BC) and a descendant of Lü Shang , the founder of Qi.
The final proposal for Unicode encoding of the script was submitted by two cuneiform scholars working with an experienced Unicode proposal writer in June 2004. [4] The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003), and Robert Englund.
Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
A lummox is a clumsy or stupid person.. Lummox may also refer to: . Lummox, a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst; Lummox, a 1930 film adaptation of the novel; Lummox, the title character of the 1954 novel The Star Beast by Robert Heinlein