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English

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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 Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (lung), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (lung).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

  • enPR: lŭng, IPA(key): /ˈlʌŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Noun

lung (plural lungs)

  1. (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
    • 1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D 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.
  2. (in the plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
    He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
  3. 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)

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Translations

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin longus. Compare Romanian lung.

Adjective

lung m (feminine lunghe, masculine plural lundz, feminine plural lundzi)

  1. long

See also

Drung

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luŋ.

Noun

lung

  1. stone

References

Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung, Santa Barbara: University of California

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Noun

lung

  1. curve, bend.
    Synonym: keluk
  2. archer's bow.
    Synonym: busur

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay , from Hokkien (láng, lâng, lông, lóng, “bamboo container”).

Noun

lung

  1. bottomless coffin.

Etymology 3

Noun

lung

  1. alternative spelling of long (large firecracker).

Further reading

Lashi

Pronunciation

Verb

lung

  1. to force someone to put (something inside something)

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian long.

Adjective

lung (comparative linger or långer, superlative lingst or långst)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) long

Inflection

Old French

Adjective

lung m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lunge)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of long

Declension

Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject lungs lunge lung
oblique lung lunge lung
plural subject lung lunges lung
oblique lungs lunges 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)

  1. long
    Antonym: scurt
    Asta e o stradă foarte lungă!
    This is a really long street!

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite lung lungă lungi lungi
definite lungul lunga lungii lungile
genitive-
dative
indefinite lung lungi lungi lungi
definite lungului lungii lungilor lungilor

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Romani: lùngo

See also

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin longus.

Adjective

lung m (feminine singular lunga, masculine plural lungs, feminine plural lungas)

  1. long

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Adverb

lung (𢥆)

  1. (of thought) very hard

Adjective

lung

  1. (only in compounds) loose

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