Langhe
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English
Etymology 1
From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
the Langhe
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Translations
hilly area in Piedmont
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Etymology 2
From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Langhe
- A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 1992, Daily Report: China, numbers 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
- Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langhe.
Translations
town in central China
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Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin; possibly related to the Iberian settlement Langobriga in present-day Portugal, and Lamboglia derives both from the non-Indo-European substrate (possibly Iberian) base *lanka (“depression, valley”), later "hilly area."[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
le Langhe f pl (plural only)
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References
- ^ Dizionario di toponomastica, Torino, UTET, 1990, p. 403.