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English

Etymology

From French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m??k?k/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??k??k/, /m??kæk/

Noun

macaque (plural macaques)

1. Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially genus Macaca.

Derived terms

• Japanese macaque
• pig-tailed macaque
• rhesus macaque

Translations

See also

• Barbary ape

French

Etymology

From Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.kak/

Noun

macaque m (plural macaques)

1. macaque
2. (Louisiana) monkey
3. (Louisiana) clown

Synonyms

• (monkey): singe m
• (clown): clown m

Derived terms

• macaque rhésus
• macaquerie

Further reading

• “macaque” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Hindi ????? (la?g?r) and Urdu ?????? (lã?g?r), from Sanskrit ?????????? (l??g?lin).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /l??.?????/

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.

Translations

References

• Colobinae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Colobinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Colobinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Langru, Lurgan

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl?h?g?ós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??k??/

  Rhymes: -??k??

Adjective

langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)

1. long

Declension

Synonyms

• síður

Antonyms

• stuttur

See also

• breiður
• víður
• djúpur
• høgur
• smáur
• stórur
• tjúkkur
• tunnur
• tættur
• fjarur

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl?h?g?ós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?k?r/ (older pronunciation, now dialectal)
• IPA^(key): /?lau?k?r/

  Rhymes: -au?k?r

Adjective

langur (comparative lengri, superlative lengstur)

1. long (of distance or time or the length of an object)

Inflection

Derived terms

• fyrir löngu (a long time ago)
• langförull
• eiga sér langan aðdraganda

Noun

langur m

1. only used in set phrases

Declension

Derived terms

• draga á langinn (to put off)

Old French

Alternative forms

• langor (France)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin languor.

Noun

langur m or f

1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)

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

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (langor, supplement)
• langur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Noun

langur m (plural langures)

1. langur