lunge

See also: Lunge and lungë

English

WOTD – 12 February 2007

Alternative forms

• longe (US)

A tennis player lunging for the ball.

An airman performing a lunge.

Etymology

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnd͡ʒ

Noun

lunge (plural lunges)

1. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.

2. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
3. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
4. A fish, the namaycush.

Derived terms

• lunge whip

Translations

sudden movement

• Bulgarian: напад m (napad), мушкане n (muškane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: skok vpřed m, výpad m
• Finnish: syöksy (fi)
• French: bond (fr) m (vers l'avant)
• German: Ausfall (de)
• Hebrew: זינוק, תנועה קדימה עם חרב
• Italian: allungo (it) m, affondo (it) m
• Maori: whātoro
• Polish: sztych (pl) m, rzut (pl) m
• Portuguese: impulso (pt) m
• Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਤੇਜੀ ਨਾਲ ਅਗਾਂਹ ਵਧਣਾ (tejī nāl agā̃h vadhṇā)
• Russian: вы́пад (ru) m (výpad)
• Spanish: embestida (es) f
• Swedish: utfall (sv), attack (sv)

long rope — see lunge line

exercise

• Bulgarian: на́пад m (nápad)
• Finnish: askelkyykky
• French: fente (fr) f
• German: Ausfallschritt m
• Italian: affondo (it) m
• Polish: wykrok (pl) m
• Portuguese: passada (pt) f, afundo (pt) m
• Russian: вы́пад (ru) m (výpad)
• Spanish: embestida (es) f
• Swedish: utfall (sv) n
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} (तलवारीची) फेक ((talvārīcī) phek), ^{(please verify)} (अचानक) झेप ((acānak) jhep)
• Punjabi: (3) ^{(please verify)} ਕਿਰਪਾਨ ਖਿੱਚਣਾ (kirpān khiccaṇā), (4) ^{(please verify)} ਕਿਰਪਾਨ ਦੀ ਹੁੱਝ ਝਪਟ (kirpān dī hujjha jhapaṭ)

Verb

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).

   I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.

   • 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork:

     With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!

2. (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

Derived terms

• lungeing cavesson
• lungeing rein

 

Translations

to make a sudden movement

• Azerbaijani: atılmaq (az)
• Bulgarian: устремявам се (ustremjavam se)
• Czech: skočit (cs) pf, vrhnout se pf (vpřed), udělat výpad pf
• Finnish: syöksyä (fi)
• German: losstürzen, ausfallen (de)
• Polish: rzucić się (pl)
• Portuguese: impulsionar (pt)
• Russian: ри́нуться (ru) pf (rínutʹsja), бро́ситься (ru) pf (brósitʹsja)
• Spanish: lanzarse (es)
• Swedish: göra ett utfall, störta (mot någon)

to work a horse in a circle around a handler

• Bulgarian: водя кон по кръг (vodja kon po krǎg)
• Czech: lonžovat impf
• Finnish: juoksuttaa (fi)
• Hungarian: futószáraz (hu)
• Italian: far girare il cavallo legato con lunga cavezza al palo
• Spanish: varear (es)

Anagrams

• Leung

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔŋə]

Noun

lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)

1. (anatomy) lung

Declension

Declension of lunge

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lunge	lungen	lunger	lungerne
genitive	lunges	lungens	lungers	lungernes

Derived terms

• lungebetændelse
• lungekapacitet
• lungekræft
• lungetransplantation

References

• “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlun.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -undʒe
• Hyphenation: lùn‧ge

Adverb

lunge

1. (archaic) Alternative form of lungi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.

Noun

lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

1. (anatomy) a lung

Derived terms

• lungebetennelse
• lungekreft
• lungeskade

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²lʊŋːə/

Noun

lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)

1. (anatomy) a lung

Derived terms

• lungebetennelse
• lungekreft
• lungeskade

Further reading

• “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.