Lune


 * This word should not be confused with "loon"; also see Loon (disambiguation).

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
 * 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

Sport:

 * In real tennis, a lune is a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court