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Lojban
Lojban (jbo) is a logical constructed language forked from James Cooke Brown's Loglan in 1987 by the Logical Language Group, with predicate-logic grammar, machine-proven unambiguous syntax, about 1,300 gismu roots, and a 1997 baseline grammar by John Cowan.
Lok Adalat (लोक अदालत)
Lok Adalat (लोक अदालत), meaning "people's court," is an Indian alternative dispute resolution forum where pending or pre-litigation cases are settled amicably by compromise rather than adjudication.
Lok dohori
Lok dohori, also called Dohori (Nepali: लोक दोहोरी), is a Nepali folk tradition of improvised male–female duet singing in witty rhymed couplets, usually about love.
Lok Janshakti Party (लोक जनशक्ति पार्टी)
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), LJP (RV), लोक जनशक्ति पार्टी (रामविलास): Bihar-based NDA party led by Chirag Paswan, formed from Ram Vilas Paswan's 2000 party after the 2021 split; won 19 of 29 seats in the 2025 Bihar assembly election and 5 Lok Sabha seats in 2024.
Lok katha
Lok katha (लोककथा, folk tale) is a traditional story current among the common people, composed by unknown tellers and handed down orally from generation to generation.
Lok Ma Chau (cable landing point)
Lok Ma Chau is a cable landing point at Hong Kong's northern boundary with Shenzhen, where terrestrial fiber-optic systems cross into mainland China rather than a coastal submarine station.
Lok Parlok
Lok Parlok (लोक परलोक) is a 1979 Hindi fantasy film directed by Tatineni Rama Rao, a remake of Yamagola, starring Jeetendra and Jaya Prada; its exhibition was suspended in 1980 for mocking Hindu mythology.
Lok Sabha (लोक सभा)
Lok Sabha (लोक सभा), the House of the People, is India's directly elected lower house of Parliament, first constituted 17 April 1952. It has 543 elected seats, a five-year term, exclusive power over Money Bills, and confidence of the government.
Loka
Loka (Sanskrit लोक) means 'world' or 'open space' in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain thought: a realm or plane of existence, counted as three, seven, or fourteen worlds, and also the inhabited world and its people (loka-tantra, laukika).
Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra
Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (ലോകഃ Chapter 1: ചന്ദ്ര) is a 2025 Malayalam superhero film by Dominic Arun, produced by Dulquer Salmaan, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan; highest-grossing Malayalam film at over ₹300 crore.
Lokah Chapter One: Chandra
Lokah Chapter One: Chandra (ലോക: ചാപ്റ്റർ 1 - ചന്ദ്ര) is a 2025 Malayalam superhero film by Dominic Arun, produced by Dulquer Salmaan, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan as the yakshi-based heroine Chandra; it became the highest-grossing Malayalam film, crossing ₹300 crore worldwide.
Lokamahadevi (Chalukya chief queen)
Lokamahadevi (लोकमहादेवी) was the chief queen of Vikramaditya II (r. 733–744), king of the Early Western Chalukya dynasty, and the patron of the large Virupaksha Shiva temple at Pattadakal.
Lokamahadevi (chief queen of Rajaraja I)
Lokamahadevi (லோகமாதேவி), personal name Danti-sakti-vitanki, was probably the chief queen of the Chola emperor Rajaraja I; she built the Uttara-Kailasa shrine at Tiruvaiyaru and performed the hiranyagarbha ceremony.
Lokanatha
Lokanatha (Anantashri Loknath) is recorded in the Govardhan Matha's own succession list as the 140th Shankaracharya of the Puri seat, in office for 13 years from 1870 to 1883.
Lokanatha rasa
Lokanatha Rasa (Lakanatha rasa), a classical Ayurvedic mercurial preparation from Rasendra Sara Sangraha for liver and spleen disorders; contains Kajjali plus Abhra, Lauha, Thamra, Varatika bhasmas; mercury bound as HgS.
Lokasenna
Lokasenna, meaning "Loki's quarrel," is a mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Loki insults the assembled gods at a feast until Thor drives him out.
Lokassa Ya Mbongo
Lokassa Ya Mbongo, born Denis Lokassa Kassia in Kinshasa in 1946, was a Congolese rhythm and mi-solo guitarist who led the Soukous Stars until his death in 2023.
Lokayukta
Lokayukta is the state-level anti-corruption ombudsman of India, counterpart of the central Lokpal. Recommended by the 1966 ARC; Maharashtra first (1971); powers, terms, and effectiveness vary widely by state.
Lokesh Cinematic Universe
Lokesh Cinematic Universe (LCU, Lokiverse): shared universe of Tamil action thrillers by Lokesh Kanagaraj, linking Kaithi (2019), Vikram (2022), Leo (2023), and upcoming Benz, with Kaithi 2, Vikram 2, and a Rolex spin-off planned.
Lokesh Kanagaraj (லோகேஷ் கனகராஜ்)
Lokesh Kanagaraj (லோகேஷ் கனகராஜ்), born 1986 in Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore, is a Tamil film director of Maanagaram, Kaithi, Master, Vikram, Leo, and Coolie, creator of the Lokesh Cinematic Universe, and 2026 lead actor in DC.
Lokgatha
Lokgatha (लोकगाथा, "folk ballad") is a sung narrative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, telling long stories in verse in the people's spoken language, transmitted orally across generations.
Loki
Loki (Old Norse Loki) is the trickster god of Norse mythology: giant-descended, blood-brother of Odin, father of Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Hel, central to the Eddas yet worshipped nowhere.
Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Loki (MCU) is the Marvel Cinematic Universe's God of Mischief, Frost Giant son of Laufey adopted by Odin, played by Tom Hiddleston from Thor (2011) through the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023), ending as the multiverse's sacrificial guardian.
Loki (Marvel Comics)
Loki is a Marvel Comics supervillain and antihero based on the Norse trickster god and Thor's archenemy. Debuted in Journey into Mystery #85 (October 1962) by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby; an earlier version appeared in Venus #6 (1949).
Loki (rocket)
Loki, known as the Loki Dart, was an American solid-propellant rocket that failed as an anti-aircraft weapon and became a widely used meteorological sounding rocket in the 1950s and 1960s.
Loki (TV series)
Loki is a Marvel Studios Disney+ series (2021–2023, two six-episode seasons) starring Tom Hiddleston as the God of Mischief, arrested by the Time Variance Authority after Avengers: Endgame; created by Michael Waldron, directed by Kate Herron in season 1.
Loki Patera
Loki Patera is a volcanic depression, or patera, on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, about 200 km across and responsible at times for 10 to 15 percent of Io's heat flow.
Loki-Schmidt-Garten
Loki-Schmidt-Garten, formerly Neuer Botanischer Garten Klein Flottbek, is the 24-hectare botanical garden of the University of Hamburg, opened 1979, renamed 2012 for botanist Loki Schmidt, with about 500,000 annual visitors.
Loki's Castle
Loki's Castle (Loki's Castle Vent Field, LCVF) is a 2008-discovered black smoker hydrothermal vent field at 73°N on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, about 2,300 m deep, sediment-influenced, home to Sclerolinum tube worms and the source sediments of Lokiarchaeota.
Lokiarchaeota
Lokiarchaeota is a phylum of archaea first described in 2015 from sediment near the Loki's Castle hydrothermal vent field in the Arctic Ocean, notable for genes once considered eukaryote-specific.