lungi

• longi, longyi, lungyi
• loonghee, loonghi (archaic)

From Hindi लुंगी (luṅgī)/Urdu لنگی (lungī).

lungi (plural lungis)

1. A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan.
   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 152:

     Samad […] regularly wore a long piece of embroidered grey cotton, a lungi, wrapped round his waist.

• (garment): sarong

• “lungi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lungi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• “lungi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• ULing, luing

• lunge (archaic)

From Latin longē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlun.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -undʒi
• Hyphenation: lùn‧gi

lungi

1. (literary) distant, far
2. (followed by da) far (from)

lungi

1. plural of lungo

From lung. Also possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *longīre for Latin longīscēre.

• IPA^(key): /lunˈd͡ʒi/

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a lungi (third-person singular present lungește, past participle lungit) 4th conjugation

1. to lengthen, elongate, extend
2. to prolong

• alungi
• lungire

• lungime