English

Gray langur

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

See also

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

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langr, from Proto-Germanic *langaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛŋkʊɹ/

  Rhymes: -ɛŋkʊɹ

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 *dl̥h₁gʰós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaŋkʏr/ (older pronunciation, now dialectal)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlauŋkʏr/

  Rhymes: -auŋkʏr

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

Borrowing from Latin languor.

Noun

langur m, f

1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
   • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 222 (of the Champion Classiques edition, ISBN 2-7453-0520-4), lines 2920-1:

     la peine qu'ad e la dolur
     e coment il gist en langur

     the pain and the anguish that he has
     and how his is lying in languor

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

• (fr) 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