different between organ vs gamba

English

Etymology

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (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 *wer?-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
  • Homophone: Oregon (one pronunciation)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

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.
4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. government organization; agency; authority
7. (slang) The penis.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:organ.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (oreugan)
• ? Maori: ?kana
• ? Vietnamese: oóc-gan

Translations

Further reading

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

Verb

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.
   • 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses

     Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

Anagrams

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch orgaan, from Middle Dutch organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?an]
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

organ

1. organ:
   1. (biology) a larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
   2. (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.
   3. an official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
2. mouthpiece, a spokesperson or medium aligned with an organisation.

Related terms

Further reading

• “organ” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

organ

1. Alternative form of organe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), via Latin organum

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• kjønnsorgan

See also

• orgel (musical instrument)

References

• “organ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.?an/

Noun

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

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ??????? (órganos), from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *or?gan?. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. org?), Italian organum, Italian organo.

Noun

organ n (plural organe)

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

Declension

Synonyms

• (musical instrument): org?

See also

• m?dular

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?a?n/
• Hyphenation: or?gan

Noun

òrg?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. organ (part of an organism)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

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)

Declension

Related terms

Anagrams

• argon

English

Etymology 1

From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of jamb and gam.

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. (music) Abbreviation of viola da gamba.
2. (music) A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.

Etymology 2

Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gamb, gambol.

Noun

gamba

1. (anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.

Related terms

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??am.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian gamba. Doublet of cama.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. leg

   Synonym: cama

Etymology 2

From Late Latin gamb?rus, from camm?rus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros, “lobster”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambes)

1. shrimp

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m.ba?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba
• Rhymes: -?mba?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba, from gamba (“leg”).

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. viola da gamba

   Synonym: knieviool

Derived terms

• gambist

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan gamba, Portuguese gamba or French gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gamba's, diminutive gambaatje n)

1. scampi, prawn

French

Etymology

Spanish gamba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. large prawn

Gooniyandi

Noun

gamba

1. water

2. wet season
3. year (because years are measured from one wet season to the next)

References

• William B. McGregor, A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi (1990, ?ISBN, page 260

Interlingua

Noun

gamba (plural gambas)

1. leg

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba m (genitive singular gamba, nominative plural gambaí)

1. lump, hunk, dollop

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gamba" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “gamba” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gamba” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??am.ba/

Noun

gamba f (plural gambe)

1. leg
2. leg (from knee to ankle), shank
3. leg (of furniture)
4. stroke (of a letter)

Derived terms

• gambetto
• in gamba

Descendants

• ? English: gam

Related terms

See also

• coscia

Further reading

• gamba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Alternative forms

• camba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [??ämbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??am.ba/, [???mb?]

Noun

gamba f (genitive gambae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, of animals) hock, shank
2. (Medieval Latin) (upper part of) leg, thigh

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: gamba
• English: gamb, gamba
• Old French: jambe, gambe
  • Middle French: jambe, gambe
    • ? Middle English: gambe
      • English: gamb
    • ? Middle English: jambe
      • English: jamb
    • French: jambe
  • Norman: gambe
  • Picard: gambe
  • Walloon: djambe
• Romanian: gamb?
• Sicilian: jamma
• Spanish: gamba

References

• gamba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gamba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 703/1

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. leg

References

• AEDLL

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin cammarus, gammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????b?/
• Hyphenation: gam?ba

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

   Synonym: camarão

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/

Noun

gamba f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gamb?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??amba/, [??ãm.ba]

Etymology 1

From Italian gamba or Vulgar Latin *gambarus, from Latin gammarus, cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kámmaros).

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Spain) shrimp

   Synonym: camarón (Latin America)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian gamba, from Late Latin gamba.

Noun

gamba f (plural gambas)

1. (Argentina, colloquial) leg

   Synonym: pierna

2. (Chile, colloquial) 100 pesos

Derived terms

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

gamba (ma class, plural magamba)

1. bark (of a tree)
2. skin (of a scaly animal)
3. scale (of an animal)
4. armor
5. shell

See also

• ngozi