lengua

Borrowed from Spanish lengua (“tongue”). Doublet of langue, lingua, and tongue.

lengua (uncountable)

1. A Mexican dish consisting of beef tongue used to make tacos.

• langue, lagune, Luange, genual, Naugle, ulnage

lengua f (Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural lenguas)^[1]

1. alternative form of lingua
   • 1979, Isaac ben Michael Badhav, Ana María Riaño López, Un tratado sefardí de moral‎^[1], Ameller, →ISBN, page 53:

     “Si me olƀidare de ti, ¡O Yᵉrûšāláyim!, se olƀide mi dereĉa, se apege mi lengua a mi paladar, si no me akordare de ti, si no enaltesiere a Yᵉrûšāláyim soƀre la kaƀesera de mi alegría”

     If I will forget about you, O Jerusalem, [if] my right is forgotten, [if] my tongue sticks to my palate, if I won’t agree with you, if I do not rise to Jerusalem over the leader of my pleasure.

   • 2000, La Lettre Sépharade‎^[2], numbers 1–19, La Lettre Sépharade, page 7:

     Mi primera lengua fue el espanyol muestro, i syempre fue la lengua de famiya.

     My mother tongue was our Spanish, and it was always our family’s language.

• léngoa (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

Inherited from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleŋɡwa/

lengua f (plural lengue)

1. (anatomy) tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)
2. (metonymic) language

   Synonym: lenguaggio

3. (zoology) common sole (Solea solea)

Inherited from Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːŋɡwa/, /ˈleŋɡwa/

lengua f

1. tongue
2. (countable) language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

Inherited from Latin lingua.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈleŋɡwə]

lengua f (plural lengue)

1. tongue
2. language

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 106: “la lingua” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

lengua

1. alternative form of lingua

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “lengua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “lengua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• lenga

Inherited from Latin lingua.

lengua f (oblique plural lenguas, nominative singular lengua, nominative plural lenguas)

1. (countable) language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

• lengaje

• Occitan: lenga

  Gascon: lengua

  Limousin: linga

  Provençal: lengo, lenguo

Inherited from Latin lingua.

lengua f (plural lenguas)

1. (anatomy) tongue
2. (countable) language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

• Ladino: alguenga, aluenga, eluenga, lengua, lingua, luenga, לינגוה
• Spanish: lengua
  • Chavacano: lengua
  • Papiamentu: lenga

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “lengua”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 302

• lieunga (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)
• glianga (Surmiran)
• laungia (Puter)
• leua (Vallader)

Inherited from Latin lingua.

lengua f (plural lenguas)

1. (Vallader) tongue

Inherited from Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlenɡwa/ [ˈlẽŋ.ɡwa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -enɡwa
• Syllabification: len‧gua

lengua f (plural lenguas)

1. tongue (organ)
2. (countable) language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)

   Synonyms: idioma, habla

   • 2021 April 26, John Malathronas, “¿Cuáles son los idiomas más fáciles (y difíciles) de aprender para los hablantes nativos de inglés?”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     No es de extrañar que las dos lenguas no europeas más sencillas de aprender utilicen el alfabeto latino.
     El malayo es la lengua franca de varios países del sudeste asiático y se ha simplificado por su uso como segunda lengua por parte de hablantes no nativos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. Spanish (subject taught in schools)

• Chavacano: lengua
• Papiamentu: lenga

• “lengua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024