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English
Etymology
From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lung (plural lungs)
- (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
- (in the plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
- He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
- That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123:
- Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]
Synonyms
- (organ): (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights (of an animal, used as food)
Derived terms
- aqualung
- bagpipe lung
- biolung
- bird breeder's lung
- bird fancier's lung
- black lung
- book lung
- brown lung
- diffuse parenchymal lung disease
- farmer's lung
- flock worker's lung
- green lung
- heart-lung machine
- interstitial lung disease
- iron lung
- Labrador lung
- leather-lunged
- lung buster
- lung-busting
- lung butter
- lung cancer
- lung capacity
- lung dart
- lungedness
- lunger
- lung fever
- lung fields
- lungfish
- lung flower
- lungful
- lung-grown
- lungless
- lunglessness
- lung lichen
- lunglike
- lung power
- lung sac
- lung sick
- lung toilet
- lung volume
- lungworm
- lungwort
- mahogany lung
- midlung
- miller's lung
- nonlung
- pigeon fancier's lung
- popcorn lung
- smoker's lung
- woodworker's lung
- wouldn't work in an iron lung
Translations
organ that extracts oxygen from the air
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See also
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin longus. Compare Romanian lung.
Adjective
lung m (feminine lunghe, masculine plural lundz, feminine plural lundzi)
Related terms
See also
Drung
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luŋ.
Noun
lung
References
Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung, Santa Barbara: University of California
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Noun
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Malay , from Hokkien 籠／笼 (láng, lâng, lông, lóng, “bamboo container”).
Noun
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
Etymology 3
Noun
lung (first-person possessive lungku, second-person possessive lungmu, third-person possessive lungnya)
- alternative spelling of long (“large firecracker”).
Further reading
- “lung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Lashi
Pronunciation
Verb
lung
References
Old French
Adjective
lung m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lunge)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of long
Declension
Declension of lung
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
From the Latin longus (“long”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
lung m or n (feminine singular lungă, plural lungi)
Declension
Declension of lung
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romani: lùngo
See also
Romansch
Etymology
Adjective
lung m (feminine singular lunga, masculine plural lungs, feminine plural lungas)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Adverb
- (of thought) very hard
Adjective
lung
- (only in compounds) loose
Derived terms
Derived terms