lang

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lăng; IPA^(key): /læŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

lang (plural langs)

1. Abbreviation of language

• artlang
• conlang
• engelang
• jokelang
• loglang
• memelang
• speedlang
• natlang

lang (comparative langer, superlative langest)

1. (obsolete outside Northumbria) long

• "Lang" was still used for "long" in several northern English dialects at the time of the Survey of English Dialects, but it is now virtually extinct.

• “lang”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Angl.

From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang. Cognate with German lang, Dutch lang, English long, Icelandic langur.

• IPA^(key): /lɑŋ/

lang (comparative lenger, superlative lengscht)

1. long
2. tall, high

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), cognate with Swedish lång, English long, German lang. The adjective goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos, *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”), which is also the source of Latin longus, Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós).

• IPA^(key): /lanɡ/, [lɑŋˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋˀ

lang (neuter langt, plural and definite singular attributive lange, comparative længere, superlative (predicative) længst, superlative (attributive) længste)

1. long (having great distance)

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

From Middle Dutch lanc, from Old Dutch *lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

• IPA^(key): /lɑŋ/

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• Hyphenation: lang
• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

lang (comparative langer, superlative langst)

1. long

   Antonym: kort

   Het was een lange dag.

   It was a long day.

2. tall

   Antonyms: kort, klein

   Een lange man.

   A tall man.

3. long (time), lengthy, a long time

   Het duurt lang.

   It takes a long time.

   Wie heeft het langst gespeeld?

   Who played longest?

• Afrikaans: lank
• Berbice Creole Dutch: langgi
• Jersey Dutch: lānk
• Negerhollands: lang, laṅ
• → Sranan Tongo: langa
  • → Aukan: langa
  • → Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: langame
  • → Saramaccan: lánga, djanga

lang

1. (with negation) by far

   Lang niet iedereen houdt van vlees.

   Not everyone by far likes meat.

lang

1. (Erzgebirgisch) already

   Synonym: schu

   Ich saat ja lang, doß die Predigerschul in Berlin is und "Paulinium" haaßt.

   I already said, that the Preacher school is in Berlin and is called "Paulinium."

• 1982 Karl-Heinz Schmidt, Itze schlöft dr Pastor ei : Heiteres aus dem Erzgebirge. P. 12

From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

• IPA^(key): /laŋ/, [laŋ], (northern also) [laŋk]

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

lang (strong nominative masculine singular langer, comparative länger, superlative am längsten)

1. long; lengthy (in space or time)

   Antonym: kurz

2. (of a person) tall

   Synonym: (more common) groß

3. (with units of time, chiefly Jahre) many (indicating the length of the time in total)

   Synonym: viel

   Er hat lange Jahre damit verbracht, diese Frage zu erörtern.

   He spent many years reasoning about this question.

• (antonym(s) of “tall”): klein; kurz (latter rather rude)

• jahrelang
• Länge
• Langeweile
• langmachen
• langschwänzig
• langweilig
• langwierig
• monatelang
• stundenlang
• überlang
• verlängern
• wochenlang
• Vokuhila

lang

1. (chiefly colloquial, but also found in formal style) Alternative form of lange

   Der Ausflug hat lang gedauert.

   The trip took quite long.

2. long, sprawled, stretched (physically)

   Er lag lang auf der Erde.

   He lay sprawled on the ground.

lang [with accusative]

1. for (temporal)

   Er ist ein Jahr lang um die Welt gereist.

   He travelled around the world for one year.

   Ich habe mein ganzes Leben lang die Relativitätstheorie studiert.

   I studied relativistic physics my entire life.

   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎^[1], number 34/2010, page 87:

     Die Pharmakonzerne müssen ihre Preise nun drei Jahre lang auf dem Niveau vom Sommer 2009 einfrieren.

     The pharmaceutical companies now have to freeze their prices for three years at the level of summer 2009.

2. (chiefly colloquial, but also found in formal style) Alternative form of entlang

   Gehen Sie einfach diese Straße lang!

   Just go along this street!

   Wo lang? Hier lang!

   Which way? This way!

lang

1. singular imperative of langen

• “lang” in Duden online
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• “lang” in Duden online
• “lang” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “lang” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “lang” in OpenThesaurus.de

From French langue (“language”).

• IPA^(key): /lãɡ/, [lãŋ]

lang

1. A language.
2. A tongue.

• langaj

From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang.

• IPA^(key): /laŋ/

lang (comparative lenger, superlative lengest)

1. long

   Sie hod en lange Naas.

   She has a long nose.

   Das is drei Meter lang.

   This is three meters long.

• langst

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

lang m

1. accusative indefinite singular of langur
2. dative indefinite singular of langur

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋ/
• Rhymes: -laŋ, -aŋ, -ŋ
• Hyphenation: lang

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lang (plural lang-lang, first-person possessive langku, second-person possessive langmu, third-person possessive langnya)

1. aphetic form of êlang (“eagle”)
2. (obsolete) aphetic form of selang

From Betawi [Term?], probably from Dutch lang (“tall”), from Middle Dutch lanc, from Old Dutch *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz.

lang (plural lang-lang, first-person possessive langku, second-person possessive langmu, third-person possessive langnya)

1. tiered table

• “lang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /laŋ/

lang

1. Classifier for big moving objects, like a river.

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

From Middle Low German lang, from Old Saxon lang, from Proto-West Germanic *lang. Cognate to German lang, Dutch lang, English long.

lang (comparative länger, superlative längst)

1. long

From Proto-Finnic *lanka.

lang

1. A yarn.

From Austroasiatic; compare Bahnar klang, Pacoh calang, Khmer ខ្លែង (khlaeng), Mang laːŋ¹, Central Nicobarese [Nancowry] kalâng and Chong kʰlaːˀŋ. Doublet of elang and helang.

• IPA^(key): /laŋ/
• Rhymes: -aŋ

lang (Jawi spelling لڠ, plural lang-lang, informal 1st possessive langku, 2nd possessive langmu, 3rd possessive langnya)

1. eagle (Any of several large carnivorous birds in the family Accipitridae)

   Synonyms: elang, helang

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “الڠ lang”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 116
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “لڠ lang”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 599
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “lang”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 15-6

• “lang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

lang

1. Nonstandard spelling of lāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of láng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of lǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of làng.

• 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.

lang

1. just; only; merely

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑŋ/

lang

1. water

• Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005, SIL, edited by Steve Parker), section Mato (Nenaya, Nengaya, Nineia) Language, page 28: lang [ˈlɑŋ] 'water'

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lang (neuter singular langt, definite singular and plural lange, comparative lengre, indefinite superlative lengst, definite superlative lengste)

1. long
2. tall

• “lang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse langr. Akin to English long.

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• IPA^(key): /lɑŋː/

lang (masculine and feminine lang, neuter langt, definite singular and plural lange, comparative lengre, indefinite superlative lengst, definite superlative lengste)

1. long (of physical length)

   Når fekk du det lange håret?

   When did you get such long hair?

2. long (of duration)

   Denne filmen var lang.

   This movie was long.

• “lang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

lang

1. hundred

• long

From Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos.

Cognate with Old Frisian long, Old Saxon lang, Old High German lang, Old Norse langr, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs), and outside of Germanic, with Latin longus.

• IPA^(key): /lɑnɡ/, [lɑŋɡ]

lang (comparative lengra, superlative lenġest)

1. long
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle.

     I can see I've bored you with that long tangent.

   • preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript E

     Bretene īeġland is eahta hund mīla lang and twā hund brād.

     The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide.

   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     Þonne blōtmōnaþ ġeendaþ, þonne biþ sēo niht sixtīene tīda lang and sē dæġ eahta tīda.

     At the end of November, the nights are sixteen hours long and the days are eight hours.

   • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 893

     Sē wudu is ēastlang and westlang hundtwelftiġes mīla lang oþþe lengra and þrītiġes mīla brād.

     The forest is 120 miles long or longer from east to west, and 30 miles wide.

   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     On þā swīðran healfe þām ingange is stǣnen bedd seofon fōta lang and þrim mundum hīere þonne þæs hūses flōr.

     To the right of the entrance, there is a stone bed that is seven feet long and three hands higher than the floor of the house.

   • late 9th century, anonymous translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Ne wēne iċ, nū iċ lang spell hæbbe tō seċġenne, þæt iċ hīe on þisse bēċ ġeendian mæġe, ac iċ ōðre onġinnan sċeal.

     Since I have some long stories to tell, I don't think I can finish them in this book, so I'll have to start another one.

   • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

     Hē ǣt þā and dranc and eft wearþ on slǣpe, ac sē enġel hine āwreahte ōðre sīðe and cwæþ, "Ārīs hraðe and et. Þū hæfst swīðe langne weġ."

     Then he ate and drank and went back to sleep, but the angel woke him up a second time and said, "Come on, get up and eat. You have a very long journey ahead of you."

   • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A, year 897

     Þā hēt Ælfrēd cyning timbran langsċipu onġēan þā æscas. Þā wǣron fulnēah twā swā lang swā þā ōðru. Sumu hæfdon sixtiġ āra, sumu mā. Þā wǣron ǣġðer ġe swiftran ġe unwealtran ġe ēac hīeran þonne þā ōðru; nǣron nāwðer ne on Frīsisċ ġesċeapen ne on Denisċ, ac swā him selfum þūhte þæt hīe nytwierðest bēon meahten.

     Then King Alfred had longships built to oppose the askar [small, light Viking ships used for raids]. They were almost twice as long as the others. Some had 60 oars, some more. They were both swifter and steadier as well as higher than the others, and they were not based on Frisian design or Danish, but on what he himself thought would be the most useful.

   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Ān nama is þissum ġelīċe on ġeendunge and nā on andġiete: hic senior ("þēs ealda mann oþþe ealdor"). Þā ōðre sind ealle mǣst werlīċes cynnes (hic doctor "þēs lārēow," hic salīnātor "þēs sealtere"), and ealle unlīchamlīċe (hic furor "þēos hātheortnes," horror "ōga," labor "ġeswinc," sūdor "swāt," pallor "blācung," pudor "sċamu," decor "wlite," calor "hǣtu," fervor "wielm," rubor "rēadnes oþþe sċamu," algor "ċiele"), and ealle þās and ōðre þyslīċe habbaþ langne ō on ġebīeġedum fiellum.

     One noun is like these in ending but not in meaning: hic senior ("this old person or elder"). The others are almost all masculine (hic doctor "this teacher," hic salinator "this salter"), including all the abstract nouns (hic furor "this fury," horror "horror," labor "labor," sudor "sweat," pallor "paleless," pudor "shame," decor "beauty," calor "heat," fervor "boiling heat," rubor "redness or shame," algor "coldness"), and all of these and others like them have a long o in inflected cases.

2. tall
   • c. 1000, unknown author, Vercelli Homily IX

     Ġif hwelċ mann biþ on helle āne niht, þonne biþ him lēofre þæt hē hangiġe seofon þūsende wintra on þām lenġestan treowe ufeweardum.

     Anyone who spends one day in hell would rather hang for seven thousand years from the top of the tallest tree.

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

     Þæt is nū þæs līchaman gōd þæt man sīe fæġer, and strang, and lang, and brād, and manegu ōðru gōd ēac þām.

     The virtues of the body are that a person is beautiful, strong, tall, and broad, and many other virtues besides these.

   • c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

     Þā ġeseah hē onġemang ōðrum twēġen ġeonge cneohtas, þæt hīe wǣron wlitiġe on hīewe and lange on wæstmum.

     Then he (Trajan) spotted two boys in the crowd and noticed they were beautiful in appearance and tall in stature.

• sċort

• Middle English: long, longe, longue, lang, lange, langhe
  • English: long
  • Geordie English: lang
  • Scots: lang
  • Yola: lhaung, long

From Proto-West Germanic *lang, related to Old English lang, Old Norse langr.

lang

1. long

• Middle High German: lanc
  • Alemannic German: lang
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: lång

    Mòcheno: lònk

  • German: lang
  • Hunsrik: lang
  • Luxembourgish: laang
  • Pennsylvania German: lang
  • Vilamovian: łaong
  • Yiddish: לאַנג (lang)

• long

From Proto-West Germanic *lang.

lang

1. long

• Middle Low German: lanc, lang, lanch
  • Low German: lang
  • Plautdietsch: lang, lank

From Middle High German lanc, from Old High German lang. Compare German lang, Dutch lang, English long.

lang

1. long
2. diluted

   langi Brieh ― diluted broth

From Middle Low German lanc, from Old Saxon lang.

lang

1. long (in time)

From Middle English lang, from Old English lang (“long, tall, lasting”). Cognate with English long.

lang (comparative langer, superlative langest)

1. long

lang (comparative langer, superlative langest)

1. long

• langsome
• lang syne

• laang
• lng — text messaging

Contraction of laang or lamang.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋ/ [ˈlaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: lang

lang (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜅ᜔)

1. only; just

   Synonym: lamang

• “lang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

lang

1. A fly (insect).

From Proto-Finnic *lanka, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *langô. Cognate with Finnish lanka.

lang

1. yarn, thread

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]

lang • (郎)

1. roan, piebald

   con bò lang ― roan cow

• lang ben

lang • (𫉱, 良, 榔)

1. (only in compounds) sweet potato

• khoai lang
• rau lang

Sino-Vietnamese word from 郎.

lang

1. (only in compounds) man; male