Long
See also: Appendix:Variations of "long"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋ/
Proper noun
Long (countable and uncountable, plural Longs)
- A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
- An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
- A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
Derived terms
- Long County
- Longport (New Jersey)
- Longville
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隴/陇 (Lǒng).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋ/, /ˈlʊŋ/
Proper noun
Long (countable and uncountable, plural Longs)
- (countable) A surname from Chinese.
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
- 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346:
- “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
- 2002, Emma C. Bunker, Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
- Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
- 2019 September 6, Xiaolu Zhou, “Purge of Religious Symbols Invades Residents’ Privacy”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 30 December 2019:
- In May, plaques in Arabic on the lintels above doors of some Hui residents in Shangcha village in Long county under the jurisdiction of Baoji city in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, were replaced with phrases in Chinese, like “Harmony in the family leads to prosperity in all undertakings” and “Diligence and harmony make the family prosper.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Long.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô. Cognate with German Lunge, Dutch long, English lung, Icelandic lunga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loŋ/
- Rhymes: -oŋ
Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 龍 or 隆.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [lɔŋ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [lawŋ͡m˧˧]
- Homophone: long
Derived terms
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