Lot

Lot

See also: lot, lọt, and łot.

English

Alternative forms

• Lut (Islam)

Etymology

From Hebrew לוֹט‎ (lot). Doublet of Lut.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒt/
• (US) enPR: lät, IPA^(key): /lɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Proper noun

Lot

1. A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 12:5:

     And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

2. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
3. One of the departments of Occitanie, France, formerly in Midi-Pyrénées. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46)

Derived terms

• Lot's wife

Translations

nephew of Abraham

Amharic: ሎጥ (loṭ) Arabic: لُوط‎ (ar) m (lūṭ) Armenian: Լոտ (Lot) Azerbaijani: Lut Belarusian: Лот m (Lot) Bengali: লূত (lūt) Bulgarian: Лот m (Lot) Catalan: Lot m Chinese: Mandarin: 羅得／罗得 (Luódé) Finnish: Loot French: Lot (fr) m, Loth (fr) m Georgian: ლოტი (loṭi) German: Lot (de) m Greek: Λωτ (el) m (Lot) Ancient Greek: Λώτ m (Lṓt) Hawaiian: Lota Hebrew: לוֹט‎ (he) m (lot) Hindi: लूत (hi) m (lūt) Hungarian: Lót (hu) Japanese: ロト (Roto) Kazakh: Лұт (Lūt) Korean: 롯 (Rot) Latin: Lōt m Macedonian: Лот m (Lot) Maore Comorian: Lutwi Ngazidja Comorian: Lutu Pashto: لوط‎ m (lut) Persian: لوط‎ (fa) (lut) Portuguese: Ló m, Lot m Romanian: Lot m Russian: Лот (ru) m (Lot) Spanish: Lot m Swahili: Lutu Turkish: Lut Ukrainian: Лот m (Lot) Urdu: لوط‎ m (lūt) Uyghur: لۇت‎ (lut) Uzbek: Lut

department of France

Catalan: Òlt m French: Lot (fr) m Occitan: Òut m, Òlt (oc) m

Further reading

• Lot (biblical person) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• LTO, OTL, tol, tol'

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin Oltis (Gallo-Roman).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Proper noun

Lot m

1. Lot (a department of Occitanie, France)
2. Lot (a right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France)

See also

• Lot-et-Garonne

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːt/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German lōt, from Old High German *lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Noun

Lot n (strong, genitive Lotes or Lots, plural Lote)

1. plummet

   Synonym: Senkblei

2. solder
3. (historical) lot (old unit of weight)

   Coordinate term: Quentchen

   • 1787, Johann Georg Krünitz, Oeconomische Encyclopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-Stadt-Haus-u. Landwirthschaft, in alphabetischer Ordnung, page 320:

     Apotheker-Gewicht, ist von andern Arten der im gemeinen Leben gebräuchlichen Gewichte sehr unterschieden, und hat jedes Stück auch seine besondere Signatur oder Zeichnung, als: ein Pfund hat 24 Loth, oder 12 Unzen, […]

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Declension

Declension of Lot [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Lot	die	Lote
genitive	eines	des	Lotes, Lots	der	Lote
dative	einem	dem	Lot, Lote1	den	Loten
accusative	ein	das	Lot	die	Lote

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Alternative forms

• Loth (obsolete)

Derived terms

• löten
• ausloten

Etymology 2

From Hebrew לוֹט‎ (lot).

Proper noun

Lot m (proper noun, strong, genitive Lots)

1. (biblical) Lot

Further reading

• Lot (Einheit) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

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Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew לוֹט‎ (lot).

Proper noun

Lot m

1. (biblical) Lot

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Spanish

Proper noun

Lot m

1. Lot (Biblical character)
   • 1602, La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 12:5

     Y tomó Abram á Sarai su mujer, y á Lot hijo de su hermano, y toda su hacienda que habían ganado, y las almas que habían adquirido en Harán, y salieron parair á tierra de Canaán; y á tierra de Canaán llegaron.