organ

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.ɡən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡən/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡən
• Hyphenation: or‧gan

organ (plural organs)

1. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. A species of cactus (Stenocereus thurberi).
6. (slang) The penis.

• See also Thesaurus:organ

• → Korean: 오르간 (oreugan)
• → Maori: ōkana
• → Vietnamese: oóc-gan

• organ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• organ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
   • Bishop Mannyngham

     Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.

• Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, rango

organ (plural organs)

1. Alternative form of organe

• “organ(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon),

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ or organer, definite plural organa or organene)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

• kjønnsorgan

• orgel (musical instrument)

• “organ” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), via Latin organum

organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ, definite plural organa)

1. (anatomy, biology) an organ
2. an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
3. a body (e.g. an advisory body)

• kjønnsorgan

• orgel (musical instrument)

• “organ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔr.ɡan/

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organ m inan

1. organ, part of an organism
2. (by extension) unit of government dedicated to a specific function
3. (politics) organ, official publication of a political organization

From Byzantine Greek ὄργανος (órganos), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic oruganu. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. orgă), Italian organum, Italian organo.

organ n (plural organe)

1. organ (part of organism)
2. (archaic) organ (musical instrument)

• (musical instrument): orgă

• mădular

• IPA^(key): /ǒrɡaːn/
• Hyphenation: or‧gan

òrgān m (Cyrillic spelling о̀рга̄н)

1. organ (part of an organism)

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organ n

1. (anatomy) an organ (a part of the body)
2. (dated) a voice (of a singer or actor)

   Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst

   She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation

3. an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)