Lahu

Borrowed from Lahu Laˇhuˍ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːˌhuː/

Lahu (plural Lahus or Lahu)

1. A member of an ethnic group that lives mainly in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
   • 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The team auctioned off the right to name the new species to publicize the find and raise awareness and funds for the indigenous Lahu people of northern Thailand, a group that Sippawat is part of.

Lahu

1. The Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Lahu people.

Lahu (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Lahu people or the Lahu language.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lahu terms
• Ethnologue entry for Lahu, lhu ⁠

• “Lahu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• haul, hula

Lahu

1. a male given name

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014), “Lahu”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎^[2] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples