úlūka m. (√ val, [Uṇ. iv, 41]), an owl, [RV. x, 165, 4]; [AV. vi, 29, 1]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.] &c.
N. of Indra, [Vām.]
of a Muni (in the [VāyuP.] enumerated together with Kaṇāda, but perhaps identical with him, as the Vaiśeṣika system is called Aulūkya-darśana in the [Sarvad.])
of a Nāga, [Suparṇ.]
of a king of the Ulūkas
N. of a people, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
úlūka n. a kind of grass (= ulapa), [L.]
[cf. Lat. ulula; Gk. ὀλ-ολυγ-αία; Old High Germ. ūla; Angl.Sax. ūle; Mod. Germ. Eule; Eng. owl; Fr. hulotte.]