leng

• IPA^(key): /lɛŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

leng (comparative lenger, superlative lengest)

1. Alternative form of peng (“attractive, excellent”).
   • 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 26:

     Sometimes she got comments on her selfies calling her ‘leng’, and that went some way to making her happy.

   • 2023, “Outside”, performed by Br3nya:

     I'm rolling with my G's and my gang gang / Every time I walk by, they say "leng leng"

• lengity

• leng zai

leng (countable and uncountable, plural lengs)

1. Alternative form of peng (“attractive woman”).
   • 2017 December 1, Faultsz (lyrics and music), “Raw to the Core”, in Raw to the Core‎, 2:31–2:37:

     Hot gyal there, she look peng-peng-peng
     Wanna, come to my yard like when-when-when?
     I don't wanna hear no one chatting about leng
     Ten toes in your block manna get qweng

• Gen'l, glen, gen'l, Genl, Engl, Glen, NELG, Engl., genl

From Middle High German legen, from Old High German legen, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”). Cognate with German legen, English lay.

leng (auxiliary håm)

1. (Luserna) to lay

• leng å

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Onomatopoeic.^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: leng
• Rhymes: -ɛŋɡ

leng

1. (intransitive) to swing, oscillate, sway, rock

(With verbal prefixes):

• leng in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /leŋ/
• Rhymes: -eŋ

leng (Jawi spelling ليݞ, informal 1st possessive lengku, 2nd possessive lengmu, 3rd possessive lengnya)

1. (units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to an imperial pint.

• “leng” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

leng

1. Nonstandard spelling of lēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of léng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lěng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of lèng.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /leŋ/

leng

1. water

• là

• José Antonio Salas, Diccionario mochica-castellano, castellano-mochica (2002)

From Proto-Iranian *langa-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *langa- (“lame”). Confer Persian لنگ (leng, “lame; leg”), Central Kurdish لەنگ (leng), Sanskrit लङ्ग (laṅga, “lame”).

• IPA^(key): /lɛŋɡ/

leng (Arabic spelling لەنگ)

1. lame, limping

   Synonym: topal

2. (literal and figurative) awkward

leng m (Arabic spelling لەنگ)

1. Alternative form of ling (“leg; foot”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “leng I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 441
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “leng II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 441

From Proto-West Germanic *langi, from Proto-Germanic *langiz.

• IPA^(key): /lenj/,

lenġ

1. longer (comparative degree of lange)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Ash-Wednesday"

     Þā cwæð eall sēo meniu þe ðǣr mid stōd ofwundrod þæt sē cwellere ne sceolde swencan hī nā leng...

     Then said all the multitude who stood there astonished,that the executioner should vex her no longer,...

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:66

     Siþþan maniġe his leornungcneohta ċierdon onbæc and lenġ ne ēodon mid him.

     After that, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

Related to Persian لنگ (lang).

leng

1. lame
2. limping

leng

1. pigeon

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45