langur

English

Gray langur (Semnopithecus schistaceus)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, “monkey”), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, “tail”) (compare लाङ्गूलिन् (lāṅgūlin, “tailed; monkey”)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /lʌŋˈɡʊəɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

langur (plural langurs)

1. Any of the Old World monkeys of the genera Simias, Trachypithecus (lutungs), Presbytis (surilis), and Semnopithecus (gray langurs).
2. A gibbon of the genus Hoolock.

Derived terms

• gray langur
• pig-tailed langur

Translations

group in the subfamily Colobinae

• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疣猴 (yóuhóu)

• Finnish: languri (fi) (Trachypithecus), sureli (Presbytis), hanumaani (fi) (Semnopithecus)
• Gujarati: લંગગુર (laṅgūr)
• Hindi: लंगूर (hi) m (laṅgūr)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: gereza (pl) f, langur (pl) m
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: langur (es) m
• Swedish: langur (sv) c
• Thai: ค่าง (th) (kâang)
• Urdu: لنگور m (lãṅgūr)
• Vietnamese: voọc (vi)

gibbon of the genus Hoolock

• Finnish: hulokki
• Polish: hulok m

Further reading

• Colobinae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Langru, Lurgan

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, “monkey”), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, “tail”).

Noun

langur m (plural langurs)

1. langur (Old World monkey)

Derived terms

• langur capdaurat
• langur gris

Further reading

• “langur” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛŋkʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkʊɹ

Adjective

langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)

1. long

Declension

Declension of langur (a13)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	langur	long	langt
accusative	langan	langa	langt
dative	longum	langari	longum
genitive	langs	langar	langs
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	langir	langar	long
accusative	langar	langar	long
dative	longum	longum	longum
genitive	langa	langa	langa

Synonyms

• síður

Antonyms

• stuttur

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋkʏr/ (older pronunciation, now dialectal)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlauŋkʏr/

  Rhymes: -auŋkʏr

Adjective

langur (comparative lengri, superlative lengstur)

1. long (of distance or time or the length of an object)
2. tall

Declension

Positive forms of langur (umlauted-comp)

strong declension (indefinite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	langur	löng	langt
	accusative	langan	langa
	dative	löngum	langri	löngu
	genitive	langs	langrar	langs
	plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	langir	langar	löng
	accusative	langa
	dative	löngum
	genitive	langra
weak declension (definite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	langi	langa	langa
	acc/dat/gen	langa	löngu
	plural (all-case)	löngu

Comparative forms of langur (umlauted-comp)

weak declension (definite)		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular (all-case)	lengri	lengri	lengra
	plural (all-case)	lengri

Superlative forms of langur (umlauted-comp)

strong declension (indefinite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	lengstur	lengst	lengst
	accusative	lengstan	lengsta
	dative	lengstum	lengstri	lengstu
	genitive	lengsts	lengstrar	lengsts
	plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	lengstir	lengstar	lengst
	accusative	lengsta
	dative	lengstum
	genitive	lengstra
weak declension (definite)	singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
	nominative	lengsti	lengsta	lengsta
	acc/dat/gen	lengsta	lengstu
	plural (all-case)	lengstu

Derived terms

• fyrir löngu (“a long time ago”)
• langförull
• snoppufegurð
• eiga sér langan aðdraganda

Noun

langur m (genitive singular langs, nominative plural langar)

1. only used in set phrases

Declension

Declension of langur (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	langur	langurinn	langar	langarnir
accusative	lang	langinn	langa	langana
dative	lang	langnum	löngum	löngunum
genitive	langs	langsins	langa	langanna

Derived terms

• draga á langinn (“to put off”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• langor (France)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Noun

langur m or f

1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 222, lines 2920–1:

     la peine qu'ad e la dolur
     e coment il gist en langur

     the pain and the anguish that he has
     and how his is lying in languor

Usage notes

• Like other words ending in -or that are masculine in Latin and feminine in modern French, about evenly split between masculine and feminine usage. Most citations do not demonstrate a gender (like the one above).

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “langor”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• langur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lanˈɡuɾ/ [lãŋˈɡuɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: lan‧gur

Noun

langur m (plural langures)

1. langur