Lune

Lune or Luna is a poetic name for Earth's Moon. Lune is French for Moon. Luna is Latin (and also Spanish/Italian/Russian) for Moon.

It may also refer to:

• Rivers:
  • River Lune in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
  • River Lune (Durham) in England
  • Lune (river) a 43 km long tributary of the Weser in Germany

• Place names:
  • Lune Forest in Cumbria, UK

• Mathematics:
  • Lune (mathematics)
  • Lune of Hippocrates, in geometry a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature

• Literature:
  • Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English

• Sport:
  • In real tennis, a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court

• Fictional places and characters:
  • Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
  • Gulf of Lune, where the latter flowed
  • King Lune a fictional character in The Horse and His Boy in The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Balron Lune a fictional character in Saint Seiya
  • Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia