lengua

Borrowed from Spanish lengua (“tongue”). Doublet of langue, lingua, and tongue.

lengua (uncountable)

1. A Mexican dish consisting of beef tongue used to make tacos.

• langue, lagune, Luange, genual, Naugle, ulnage

• aluenga
• lingua

From Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua.

lengua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural lenguas)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. (linguistics) language

• lashon

• léngoa (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleŋɡwa/

lengua f (plural lengue)

1. (anatomy) tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)
2. (metonymically) language

   Synonym: lenguaggio

3. (zoology) common sole (Solea solea)

From Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːŋɡwa/‚ IPA^(key): /ˈleŋɡwa/

lengua f

1. tongue
2. language

Inherited from Latin lingua.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈleŋɡwə]

lengua f (plural lengue)

1. tongue

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 106: “la lingua” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

• lenga

From Latin lingua.

lengua f (oblique plural lenguas, nominative singular lengua, nominative plural lenguas)

1. language

• lengaje

• Occitan: lenga

  Gascon: lengua

  Limousin: linga

  Provençal: lengo, lenguo

• lieunga (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• glianga (Surmiran)
• laungia (Puter)
• leua (Vallader)

From Latin lingua.

lengua f (plural lenguas)

1. (Vallader) tongue

Inherited from Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlenɡwa/ [ˈlẽŋ.ɡwa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -enɡwa
• Syllabification: len‧gua

lengua f (plural lenguas)

1. tongue
2. language

   Synonyms: idioma, habla

3. Spanish (subject taught in schools)

• Chavacano: lengua
• Papiamentu: lenga

• “lengua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28