liang

The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩 / 两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.

liang (plural liang or liangs)

1. (chiefly historical) Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.

• Gilan, Glina, Laing, Langi, algin, align, ganil, ligan, linga

From Malay liang, from Proto-Austronesian *liaŋ (“cave, cavern”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
• Hyphenation: liang

liang (plural liang-liang)

1. small hole

   Synonyms: ceruk, lubang, rongga

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
• Hyphenation: liang

liang (plural liang-liang)

1. wavy

From Mandarin 兩／两 (liǎng).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
• Hyphenation: liang

liang (plural liang-liang)

1. a Chinese ounce or tael, reckoned as one-third heavier than the ounce avoirdupois. Short for 臺兩／台两 (“Taiwanese tael, equal to 1/16 of a catty or 37.5 grams”)

   Synonyms: bungkal, tahil

• “liang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Austronesian *liaŋ (“cave, cavern”).

liang

1. cave

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liaŋ (“cave, cavern”). Cognate with Javanese leng.

• IPA^(key): /ˈljaŋ/ [ˈljaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Hyphenation: liang

liang (Jawi spelling لياڠ, plural liang-liang)

1. small hole (e.g. nose, stab mark)

   Synonyms: lubang, rongga

• “liang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*liaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

liang

1. nonstandard spelling of liáng
2. nonstandard spelling of liǎng
3. nonstandard spelling of liàng

• 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.

• leeang^[1]
• leong^[2]

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra.

liang

1. tooth^[3][2]
2. teeth^[2]
   • "Burndap Balit Liang" - "Good Strong Teeth"^[4]

• Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124