lagoon

English

The Venetian Lagoon.

Alternative forms

• lagune (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ləˈɡuːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

lagoon (plural lagoons)

1. A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

Derived terms

• Bears Lagoon
• Bool Lagoon
• Chain of Lagoons
• Egg Lagoon
• Fork Lagoons
• Horseshoe Lagoon
• Island Lagoon
• Jews Lagoon
• Kents Lagoon
• Knuckey Lagoon
• lagoonal
• lagoon city
• Lagoon Grass
• lagoonlike
• Lagoon Pocket
• lagoonside
• lagoon triggerfish
• lagoonward
• lagoonwards
• Lambells Lagoon
• Little Pine Lagoon
• Marlow Lagoon
• McMinns Lagoon
• Mountain Lagoon
• palaeolagoon
• paleolagoon
• Pelican Lagoon
• Porter Lagoon
• Rushy Lagoon
• Southport Lagoon
• Swans Lagoon
• The Lagoon
• Traynors Lagoon
• Valley of Lagoons

Descendants

• → Arabic: جون (jōn)

Translations

shallow body of water

• Afrikaans: strandmeer
• Albanian: laguna
• Arabic: بُحَيْرة شاطِئَة f (buḥayra(t) šāṭiʔa), لَاجُون f (lājūn)
• Armenian: ծովալճակ (hy) (covalčak)
• Asturian: llaguna (ast) f
• Aymara: isk'aqota
• Bulgarian: лагу́на f (lagúna)
• Catalan: llacuna (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) (xìhú), 瀉湖 / 泻湖 (zh) (xièhú) (dated or non-standard form), 環礁湖 / 环礁湖 (huánjiāohú)

• Czech: laguna (cs) f
• Danish: lagune (da) c, strandsø (da) c
• Dutch: lagune (nl) f
• Esperanto: laguno
• Estonian: laguun (et)
• Finnish: laguuni (fi)
• French: lagon (fr) m, lagune (fr) f, étang (fr) m
• Galician: lagoa (gl) f
• Georgian: ლაგუნა (laguna)
• German: Lagune (de) f
• Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα (el) f (limnothálassa)

  Ancient Greek: τέναγος n (ténagos)

• Hawaiian: loko
• Hebrew: לָגוּנָה (he) f (laguna)
• Higaonon: danaw
• Hindi: अनूप झील f (anūp jhīl), अनूप (hi) (anūp)
• Hungarian: lagúna (hu)
• Ido: laguno (io)
• Italian: laguna (it) f
• Japanese: ラグーン (ja) (ragūn), 潟 (ja) (かた, kata), 潟湖 (ja) (せきこ, sekiko)
• Kazakh: лагуна (laguna)
• Korean: 석호(潟湖) (ko) (seokho), 라군 (ragun)
• Latvian: lagūna f
• Lithuanian: lagūna f
• Macedonian: лагуна f (laguna)
• Malay: lagun
• Manx: mooirlagh
• Māori: muriwai, hāpua
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: ilhuicaāmāitl

• Northern Sotho: letshanatswai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lagune m, strandsjø m

  Nynorsk: lagune m or f, strandsjø m

• Occitan: lòna (oc) f
• Persian: مرداب (fa) (mordâb), تالاب (fa) (tâlâb), لگون (lagun), خفتاب (xaftâb), کولاب (fa) (kulâb), ایستاب (fa) (istâb)
• Plautdietsch: Lagoon f
• Polish: laguna (pl) f, zalew (pl) m
• Portuguese: laguna f, albufeira f
• Rarotongan: roto
• Romanian: lagună (ro) f
• Russian: лагу́на (ru) f (lagúna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лагуна f

  Latin: laguna f

• Slovak: lagúna f
• Slovene: laguna (sl) f
• Spanish: laguna (es) f (smaller than a lake, usually fresh water), estero (es), albufera (es) f (next to the sea), albina (es) f (next to the sea), albariza (es) f (brackish), cucha (es) f (Peru, same as laguna), cocha f
• Swedish: lagun (sv) c, strandsjö c
• Tagalog: bai (tl), lanaw
• Tahitian: roto (archaic)
• Thai: ลากูน (laa-guun)
• Turkish: lagün (tr)
• Ukrainian: лагу́на (uk) (lahúna)
• Venetan: łaguna f
• Vietnamese: phá (vi) (𫮒 (vi))
• Zazaki: gampêl

Anagrams

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