- a member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of whom are famous for their wood carvings.
- the Bantu language of the Luba, used as a lingua franca in the S Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- a member of a Negroid people of Africa living chiefly in the S Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre)
- the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
