langur

Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, “monkey”), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, “tail”) (compare लाङ्गूलिन् (lāṅgūlin, “tailed; monkey”)).

• (US) IPA^(key): /lʌŋˈɡʊəɹ/

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langur (plural langurs)

1. Any of the Old World monkeys of the subfamily Colobinae, in the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis (surilis), and Semnopithecus (gray langurs).
2. A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.

• gray langur
• pig-tailed langur

• Colobinae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Langru, Lurgan

Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, “monkey”), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, “tail”).

langur m (plural langurs)

1. langur (Old World monkey)

• langur capdaurat
• langur gris

• “langur” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2024.

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛŋkʊɹ/

  Rhymes: -ɛŋkʊɹ

langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)

1. long

• síður

• stuttur

• breiður
• víður
• djúpur
• høgur
• smáur
• stórur
• tjúkkur
• tunnur
• tættur
• fjarur

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋkʏr/ (older pronunciation, now dialectal)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlauŋkʏr/

  Rhymes: -auŋkʏr

langur (comparative lengri, superlative lengstur)

1. long (of distance or time or the length of an object)
2. tall

• fyrir löngu (“a long time ago”)
• langförull
• snoppufegurð
• eiga sér langan aðdraganda

langur m (genitive singular langs, nominative plural langar)

1. only used in set phrases

• draga á langinn (“to put off”)

• langor (France)

Borrowed from Latin languor.

langur m or f

1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 222, lines 2920–1:

     la peine qu'ad e la dolur
     e coment il gist en langur

     the pain and the anguish that he has
     and how his is lying in languor

• Like other words ending in -or that are masculine in Latin and feminine in modern French, about evenly split between masculine and feminine usage. Most citations do not demonstrate a gender (like the one above).

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (langor, supplement)
• langur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

langur m (plural langures)

1. langur