liang

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See also: Liang, liáng, liàng, and liǎng

English

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Etymology

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The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.

Noun

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liang (plural liang or liangs)

  1. (chiefly historical) Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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From Malay liang, from Proto-Austronesian *liaŋ (cave, cavern).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
  • Hyphenation: liang

Noun

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liang (plural liang-liang, first-person possessive liangku, second-person possessive liangmu, third-person possessive liangnya)

  1. small hole.
    Synonym: lubang
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
  • Hyphenation: liang

Root

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liang (plural liang-liang)

  1. wavy
Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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From Mandarin (liǎng).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlia̯ŋ]
  • Hyphenation: liang

Noun

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liang (plural liang-liang, first-person possessive liangku, second-person possessive liangmu, third-person possessive liangnya)

  1. A Chinese ounce or tael, reckoned as one-third heavier than the ounce avoirdupois. Short for 臺兩/台两 (“Taiwanese tael, equal to 1/16 of a catty or 37.5 grams”).

Further reading

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Kambera

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *liaŋ (cave, cavern).

Noun

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liang

  1. cave

References

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  • Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liaŋ (cave, cavern). Cognate with Javanese leng.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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liang (Jawi spelling لياڠ, plural liang-liang, informal 1st possessive liangku, 2nd possessive liangmu, 3rd possessive liangnya)

  1. small hole (e.g. nose, stab mark)
    Synonyms: lubang, rongga

Further reading

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  • liang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*liaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Mandarin

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Romanization

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liang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of liáng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of liǎng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of liàng.

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Woiwurrung

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Etymology

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From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra.

Noun

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liang

  1. tooth

References

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  • Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124