Langhe

English

Etymology 1

From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

the Langhe

  1. A hilly area in southwestern Piedmont, Italy.
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Etymology 2

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: längʹhŭʹ

Proper noun

Langhe

  1. A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • 1992, Daily Report: China‎[1], numbers 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:
      Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langhe.
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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin; possibly related to the Iberian settlement Langobriga in present-day Portugal, and Lamboglia derives both from the non-Indo-European substrate (possibly Iberian) base *lanka (“depression, valley”), later "hilly area."[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlan.ɡe/
  • Rhymes: -anɡe
  • Hyphenation: Làn‧ghe

Proper noun

le Langhe f pl (plural only)

  1. Langhe (a hilly area of Piedmont, Italy)

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References

  1. ^ Dizionario di toponomastica, Torino, UTET, 1990, p. 403.
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