lung

See also lừng

English

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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), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphros) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister,bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lŭng, IPA: /lʌŋ/, X-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

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: long (af)
• Albanian: mushkëri (sq)
• Amharic: ሳምባ (am)
• Arabic: رئة (ar) (ríʔa) f, سُحْر (ar) (saḥr) m

  Egyptian Arabic: رئة (reʔa) f

• Aragonese: pulmón (an)
• Armenian: թոք (hy) (t’ok’)
• Aromanian: pãlmunã (rup)
• Asturian: pulmón (ast) m
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: ağciyər (az)
• Bambara: fogonfogon
• Bashkir: үпкә (üpkä)
• Basque: birika (eu)
• Belarusian: лёгкае (be) (ljóxkaje) n
• Bengali: ফুসফুস (bn) (phusphus)
• Breton: skevent (br)
• Bulgarian: бял дроб (bg) (bjal drob) m
• Burmese: အဆုတ် (my) (ahsou')
• Catalan: pulmó (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵔⵓⵜ (tarut), ⵜⵓⵔⵜ (turt)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᏧᏪᎳ (chr) (tsuwela)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肺臟 (cmn), 肺脏 (cmn) (fèizàng), 肺 (cmn) (fèi)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Cree: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: plíce (cs) f
• Danish: lunge (da) c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: long (nl) f
• Esperanto: pulmo (eo)
• Estonian: kops (et)
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: lunga (fo) n
• Finnish: keuhko (fi)
• French: poumon (fr) m
• Friulian: palmon m
• Galician: pulmón (gl) m
• Georgian: ფილტვი (ka) (p’iltvi)
• German: Lunge (de) f
• Greek: πνεύμονας (el) (pnévmonas) m
• Gujarati: ફેફસું (gu) (phephasuṁ)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: akemāmā
• Hebrew: ריאה (he) (reiah)
• Hindi: फेफड़ा (hi) (phephṛā) m
• Hungarian: tüdő (hu)
• Icelandic: lungu (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano: bara
• Indonesian: paru-paru (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: scamhóg (ga) f
• Italian: polmone (it) m
• Japanese: 肺臓 (ja) (はいぞう, haizō), 肺 (ja) (はい, hai)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಉಸಿರುಕ (kn) (usiruka)
• Kazakh: өкпе (kk) (ökpe)
• Khmer: សួត (km) (suət)
• Korean: 부아 (ko) (bua), 허파 (ko) (heopa)
• Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
• Kyrgyz: өпкө (ky) (öpkö)
• Lao: ປອດ (lo) (pǭt)
• Latgalian: pļauškys pl

• Latin: pulmo (la) m
• Latvian: plaušas (lv) pl
• Lithuanian: plaučiai (lt) pl
• Luhya: embafu
• Luo: obo
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: бел дроб (mk) (bel drob) m
• Malay: paru (ms), paru-paru (ms)
• Malayalam: ശ്വാസകോശം (ml)
• Maltese: pulmun (mt) m
• Maori: pūkahukahu
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Meru: mauri
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Miyako: フク (fku)
• Mongolian: уушиг (mn) (uušig)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: geahpis
• Norwegian: lunge (no) c, lunga (no) f
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: palmon (oc)
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: ریه (fa) (riye), شش (fa) (šoš)
• Polish: płuco (pl) n
• Portuguese: pulmão (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: plămân (ro) m, pulmon (ro), plămâni (ro) m pl
• Romansch: lom (rm) m, lomm (rm) m, leav (rm), lev (rm), pulmun (rm) m
• Russian: лёгкое (ru) (ljógkoje) n (pronounced: ljóxkoje)
• Sanskrit: फुफ्फुसः (sa) (phuphphusaḥ)
• Santali: ᱵᱳᱠᱳ (boko) pl
• Sardinian: pimone (sc), piumone (sc), piumoni (sc), primmone (sc), primone (sc), prummone (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgamhan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плуће (sh) n, плућа (sh) n pl

  Roman: pluće (sh) n, pluća (sh) n pl

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: පෙනහැල්ල (si) (penahælla)
• Slovak: pľúca (sk) n pl
• Slovene: pljuča (sl) n pl
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: pulmón (es) m
• Swahili: pafu (sw) (nc 5/6)
• Swedish: lunga (sv) c
• Tagalog: (literally) baga (tl) n
• Tajik: шуш (tg) (šuš)
• Tamil: நுரையீரல் (ta) (nuraiyīral)
• Taos: hǫ́luną
• Telugu: ఊపిరితిత్తి (te) (ūpirititti)
• Thai: ปอด (th) (bpòt)
• Turkish: akciğer (tr)
• Turkmen: öýken (tk)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: легеня (uk) (lehénja) f, легке (uk) (léhke) n
• Urdu: پھےپھڑا (ur) (phephṛā) m
• Uyghur: ئۆپكە (ug) (öpke)
• Uzbek: oʻpka (uz)
• Vietnamese: phổi (vi)
• Volapük: lueg (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: long (fy)
• Yiddish: לונג (yi) (lung)

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Old French

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“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

Antonyms

• scurt

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 plural lungs, f plural lungas)

1. long