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Luka

proper nounattested in dialogue

A male given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from the Slavic languages, of modern usage.

    My name is Luka / I live on the second floor / I live upstairs from you / Yes I think you've seen me before

    The trailer for the documentary about killer Luka Magnotta doesn’t show anything graphic, but it contains clips of him handling kittens. The trailer goes on to explain that Magnotta gruesomely abuses these kittens.

  2. 2

    A transliteration of the Macedonian, Russian, or Ukrainian male given name Лука́ (Luká).

Etymology

From the common Slavic (Macedonian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian, etc) male given name Luka and from Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian Лука́ (Luká), all cognates of English Luke and Lucas.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).