langur

English

Gray langur

Etymology

From Hindi लंगूर (laṅgūr) and Urdu لنگور (lãṅgūr), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूलिन् (lāṅgūlin).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA(key): /lʌŋ.ˈɡʊəɹ/

Noun

langur (plural langurs)

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

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)

  1. long

Declension

langur a13
Singular (eintal) m (kallkyn) f (kvennkyn) n (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall) langur long langt
Accusative (hvønnfall) langan langa
Dative (hvørjumfall) longum langari longum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (langs) (langar) (langs)
Plural (fleirtal) m (kallkyn) f (kvennkyn) n (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall) langir langar long
Accusative (hvønnfall) langar
Dative (hvørjumfall) longum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (langa)

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós.

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)

Inflection

Derived terms

Noun

langur m

  1. only used in set phrases

Declension

Derived terms


Old French

Alternative forms

  • langor (France)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Noun

langur m or f

  1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
    • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 222 (of the Champion Classiques edition, ISBN 2-7453-0520-4, 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


Spanish

Noun

langur m (plural langures)

  1. langur
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