lung

See also lừng

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lungw- (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengwh- (“not heavy, agile, nimble”). Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish lunge, Swedish lunga and also Russian лёгкое (lёgkoe) (lung), Greek  (elaphros, “light in weight”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lŭng, IPA: /lʌŋ/, SAMPA: /lVN/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Noun

lung (plural lungs)

1. (anatomy) A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from lung

aqualung iron lung

leather-lunged lungfish

lungful

Translations

organ that extracts oxygen from the air

Arabic: رئة (ar) (rí'a) f. Armenian: թոք (hy) (t’ok’) Azeri: ağciyər (az) Bambara: fogonfogon Basque: birika (eu) Belarusian: лёгкае (be) (ljóxkaje) n. Bengali: ফুসফুস (bn) (phusphus) Bulgarian: бял дроб (bg) (bjal drob) m. Catalan: pulmó (ca) m. Central Atlas Tamazight: turin f. pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 肺臟 (cmn), 肺脏 (cmn) (fèizàng), 肺 (cmn) (fèi) Croatian: plúća (hr) n. Czech: plíce (cs) f. Danish: lunge (da) c. Dutch: long (nl) f. Esperanto: pulmo (eo) Finnish: keuhko (fi) French: poumon (fr) m. Georgian: ფილტვი (ka) (p’iltvi) German: Lunge (de) f. Greek: πνεύμονας (el) (pnévmonas) m. Hebrew: ריאה (he) (reiah) Hindi: फेफड़ा (hi) (phephṛā) m. Hungarian: tüdő (hu) Ilocano: bara Irish: scamhóg (ga) f. Italian: polmone (it) m. Japanese: 肺臓 (ja) (はいぞう, haizō), 肺 (ja) (はい, hai) Khmer: សួត (km) (suət) Korean: 부아 (ko) (bua), 허파 (ko) (heopa) Lao: ປອດ (lo) (pǭt) Latgalian: pļauškys pl. Latin: pulmo (la) m. Latvian: plaušas (lv) pl.

Lithuanian: plaučiai (lt) pl. Luhya: embafu Luo: obo Macedonian: бел дроб (mk) m. (bel drob) Malay: paru (ms) Maltese: pulmun m. Maori: pūkahukahu Meru: mauri Northern Sami: geahpis Norwegian: lunge (no) c., lunga (no) f. Persian: ریه (fa) (riye) Polish: płuco (pl) n. Portuguese: pulmão (pt) m. Romanian: plămân (ro) m., pulmon (ro), plămâni (ro) m. pl. Romansch: lom m. Russian: лёгкое (ru) (ljógkoje) n. (pronounced: ljóxkoje) Santali: ᱵᱳᱠᱳ (boko) pl. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плуће (sh) n., плућа (sh) n. pl. Roman: pluće (sh) n., pluća (sh) n. pl. Slovak: pľúca (sk) n. pl. Slovene: pljuča (sl) n. pl. Spanish: pulmón (es) m. Swahili: pafu (nc 5/6) Swedish: lunga (sv) c. Tagalog: (literally) baga (tl) n. Taos: hǫ́luną Telugu: ఊపిరితిత్తి (oopirititti) Thai: ปอด (th) (bpòt) Turkish: akciğer (tr) Ukrainian: легке (uk) (léhke) n. Vietnamese: phổi (vi) Volapük: lueg (vo) West Frisian: long (fy)

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Anglo-Norman

Alternative forms

• lonc
• long
• lunc

Etymology

From the Latin adjective longus (“long”).

Adjective

lung m.

1. long

Declension

  Declension of lung  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	lungs	lunge	lung
	Oblique	lung	lunge	lung
Plural	Subject	lung	lunges	lung
	Oblique	lungs	lunges	lung

Derived terms

• lungement

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Romanian

Etymology

From the Latin adjective longus (“long”).

Adjective

lung ^{3 nom/acc forms}

1. long

   Asta e o stradă foarte lungă!

   This is a really long street!

Declension

declension of lung

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lung		lungă	lungi	lungi
	definite	lungul		lunga	lungii	lungile
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lung		lungi	lungi	lungi
	definite	lungului		lungii	lungilor	lungilor

Derived terms

• lungi
• lungăreț

Related terms

• alunga
• prelung

See also

• alungi

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin longus.

Adjective

lung m. (f. lunga, m. pl. lungs, f. pl. lungas)

1. long