lung

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 Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).

• enPR: lŭng, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

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[.]

• (organ): (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights (of an animal, used as food)

• pneumonic
• pulmonary

• lungu

From Latin longus. Compare Romanian lung.

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

1. long

• lundzest

• larg

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *luŋ.

lung

1. stone

Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California

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

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lung (plural lung-lung)

1. curve, bend

   Synonym: keluk

2. archer's bow

   Synonym: busur

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

lung (plural lung-lung)

1. bottomless coffin

lung (plural lung-lung)

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

• “lung” 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-Kuki-Chin *luŋ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-lu(ŋ/k)

lung

1. stone, rock

• lüng (Sylt)

From Old Frisian long.

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

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) long

lung m (oblique and nominative feminine singular lunge)

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of long

• lungement

From the Latin longus (“long”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”).

• IPA^(key): /luŋɡ/

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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!

• lungan
• lungăreț
• lungi
• lunguieț

• alunga
• prelung

• → Romani: lùngo

• alungi

From Latin longus.

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

1. long

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

lung • (𢥆)

1. (of thought) very hard

lung

1. (only in compounds) loose