diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 26b5dc52be6f..4d1ed177c1c4 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ luv,,,,1.48.0-2,,
 lush.nvim,,,https://luarocks.org/dev,,,teto
 lyaml,,,,,,lblasc
 lz.n,,,,,,mrcjkb
+lze,,,,,,birdee
 lzn-auto-require,,,,,,mrcjkb
 magick,,,,,5.1,donovanglover
 markdown,,,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
index ecca61f46151..22e483a42941 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vim/plugins/overrides.nix
@@ -1056,6 +1056,8 @@
 
   lz-n = neovimUtils.buildNeovimPlugin { luaAttr = "lz-n"; };
 
+  lze = neovimUtils.buildNeovimPlugin { luaAttr = "lze"; };
+
   lzn-auto-require = neovimUtils.buildNeovimPlugin { luaAttr = "lzn-auto-require"; };
 
   magma-nvim-goose = buildVimPlugin {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index d92aa05f4b7c..5a6d1b98ae0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -2512,6 +2512,29 @@ buildLuarocksPackage {
   };
 }) {};
 
+lze = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, fetchurl, fetchzip, luaOlder }:
+buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lze";
+  version = "0.1.1-1";
+  knownRockspec = (fetchurl {
+    url    = "mirror://luarocks/lze-0.1.1-1.rockspec";
+    sha256 = "0rih9kgx846qhp1fmsqlnp8y08kv4hp8gl9dwykz4zr0zljy94j3";
+  }).outPath;
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url    = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/lze/archive/v0.1.1.zip";
+    sha256 = "1s6n61jabsv94s37xd5g0y7fxhficc4rwsklgsmzajravpgy60a8";
+  };
+
+  disabled = luaOlder "5.1";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/lze";
+    description = "A lazy-loading library for neovim, inspired by, but different from, nvim-neorocks/lz.n";
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ birdee ];
+    license.fullName = "GPL-2+";
+  };
+}) {};
+
 lzn-auto-require = callPackage({ buildLuarocksPackage, fetchurl, fetchzip, luaOlder, lz-n }:
 buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "lzn-auto-require";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index fb8a483495ed..bee4f2dd131d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -543,6 +543,17 @@ in
       '';
   });
 
+  lze  = prev.lze.overrideAttrs(oa: {
+    doCheck = lua.luaversion == "5.1";
+    nativeCheckInputs = [ final.nlua final.busted ];
+    checkPhase = ''
+      runHook preCheck
+      export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+      busted --lua=nlua
+      runHook postCheck
+    '';
+  });
+
   neotest  = prev.neotest.overrideAttrs(oa: {
     doCheck = true;
     nativeCheckInputs = oa.nativeCheckInputs ++ [