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 Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).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

From Proto-Central Naga *luŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-luŋ.

Noun

lung

  1. (Chungli) stone

Further reading

  • Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎, Berkeley: University of California, pages 98, 249
  • Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 165

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin longus. Compare Romanian lung.

Adjective

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

  1. long

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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

  • IPA(key): [ˈlʊŋ]
  • Hyphenation: lung

Etymology 1

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Noun

lung (plural lung-lung)

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay [Term?], from Hokkien [Term?] 籠／笼 (láng, lâng, lông, lóng, “bamboo container”).

Noun

lung (plural lung-lung)

  1. bottomless coffin

Etymology 3

Noun

lung (plural lung-lung)

  1. alternative spelling of long (“large firecracker”)

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Lutuv

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luŋ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-lu(ŋ/k)

Noun

lung

  1. stone, rock

Mizo

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luŋ (“stone”).

    Noun

    lung

    1. stone, rock

    Etymology 2

      From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luŋ (“maggot”).

      Noun

      lung

      1. maggot

      Adjective

      lung (stem II lun)

      1. infested with maggots

      Etymology 3

        From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luŋ (“heart”).

        Noun

        lung

        1. heart
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        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

        More information masculine, feminine / neuter ...
        More information masculine, feminine / neuter ...
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        Old French

        Adjective

        lung m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lunge)

        1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of long

        Declension

        More information Case, masculine ...

        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

        More information singular, plural ...

        Derived terms

        Descendants

        • → Hungarian: lunguj
        • → Romani: lùngo

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        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

        Derived terms

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