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lunga

lunga

See also: lungá

Cebuano

Noun

lunga

  1. The plant Sesamum indicum.
  2. sesame seed

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (lung, literally the light organ), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (light, agile, nimble). Compare Faroese and Swedish lunga, Danish and Norwegian lunge, Dutch long, German Lunge, English lung.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluŋka/
  • Rhymes: -uŋka

Noun

lunga n (genitive singular lunga, nominative plural lungu)

  1. lung

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Italian

Adjective

lunga f

  1. feminine singular of lungo

Noun

lunga f (plural lunghe)

  1. (linguistics, phonetics) long

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

lunga m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of lunge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lunga f

  1. definite singular of lunge

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse lunge, from Proto-Germanic *lungw- (literally the light organ), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (light, agile, nimble). Compare Danish and Norwegian lunge, Icelandic lunga, German Lunge, lung.

Noun

lunga c

  1. (anatomy) a lung (organ that extracts oxygen from the air)

Declension

Inflection of lunga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lunga lungan lungor lungorna
Genitive lungas lungans lungors lungornas

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