Long

See also: Appendix:Variations of "long"

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Long (plural Longs)

1. A surname, from nicknames​. Originally a nickname for a tall man.

Derived terms

• Long County
• Longport (New Jersey)
• Longville

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 隴／陇 (Lǒng).

Alternative forms

• Lung

Proper noun

Long (countable and uncountable, plural Longs)

1. (countable) A surname, from Chinese​.
2. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures‎^[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, LCCN 96-43415, OCLC 1045353345, page 346:

     “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.

   • 2002, Bunker, Emma C., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections‎^[2], →ISBN, LCCN 2002075328, OCLC 1110813401, OL 12325962M, page 24:

     Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隴 (zh), 陇 (zh) (Lǒng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔŋː/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋː

Proper noun

Long m

1. A surname​.

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô. Cognate with German Lunge, Dutch long, English lung, Icelandic lunga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loŋ/
• Rhymes: -oŋ

Noun

Long f (plural Longen)

1. lung

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 龍 or 隆.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧]
• Homophone: long

Proper noun

Long

1. A unisex given name from Chinese

Derived terms

• Huỳnh Phi Long