Sulu

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).^[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /sʊˈlu/

Sulu

1. A province of Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Jolo & Patikul
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in Mindanao, Philippines)
3. (historical) the Sultanate of Sulu
4. (dated) Tausug language

Sulu (plural Sulus or Sulu)

1. A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
   • 1908, George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216:

     That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.

   • 1921, Ignacio Villamor, Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950:

     At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.

   • 1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34:

     If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.

• “Sulu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ulus

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).^[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• Hyphenation: Su‧lu
• IPA^(key): /suˈlu/ [s̪ʊˈl̪u]

Sulú

1. Sulu (a province of Mindanao, Philippines; capital: Jolo & Patikul)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in Mindanao, Philippines)
3. (historical) Sultanate of Sulu

• Jolo

From English Sulu, from Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsulu/, [ˈs̠ulu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation^(key): Su‧lu

Sulu

1. Sulu (a province of Mindanao, Philippines; capital: Jolo & Patikul)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in Mindanao, Philippines)

• lusu

Borrowed from Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”).^[1][2] Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suˈlu/ [sʊˈlu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: Su‧lu

Sulú (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

1. Sulu (a province of Mindanao, Philippines; capital: Jolo & Patikul)
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago in Mindanao, Philippines)
3. (historical) Sultanate of Sulu

• Jolo