Langhe

English

Etymology 1

From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

the Langhe

1. A hilly area in southwestern Piedmont, Italy.

Coordinate terms

• Montferrat
• Roero

Translations

hilly area in Piedmont

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朗格 (Lǎnggé)

• French: Langhe (fr) f pl, Langhes (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ლანგე (lange)
• Greek: Λάνγκε (el) n (Lángke)
• Italian: Langhe f pl
• Japanese: ランゲ (Range)
• Korean: 랑게 (Rangge)
• Latin: Langae f pl
• Lithuanian: Langė f
• Piedmontese: Langhe f pl, Langa f
• Russian: Ла́нге n (Lánge)
• Ukrainian: Ла́нге n (Lánhe)

Etymology 2

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).

Alternative forms

• Lang-ho (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Langhe

1. A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
   • 1992, Daily Report: China‎^[1], numbers 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

     Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]

   • 2012 July 2, Huang Ying, “Program improves nutrition of students”, in China Daily‎^[2], archived from the original on 05 December 2019:

     Peng Xiang (right), deputy secretary-general of Amway Charity Foundation, has lunch in the newly built kitchen under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project with students of Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, Hubei province. […]
     "When we came back to school at the beginning of this semester, all of us were very happy to see this change - a newly built dining hall with a well-equipped kitchen," said Zhou Jing, a fifth-grade student at Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, in Central China's Hubei province. […]
     The kitchen at Langhe was the first built this year under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project, a charitable program focused on improving the nutrition of students at boarding schools in impoverished rural areas. It was the 301st built since the project was launched last year.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langhe.

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浪河 (Lànghé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• hangle, lehnga

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin; possibly related to the Iberian settlement Langobriga in present-day Portugal, and Lamboglia derives both from the non-Indo-European substrate (possibly Iberian) base *lanka (“depression, valley”), later "hilly area."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡe/
• Rhymes: -anɡe
• Hyphenation: Làn‧ghe

Proper noun

le Langhe f pl (plural only)

1. Langhe (a hilly area in Piedmont, Italy)

Coordinate terms

• Monferrato
• Roero

Derived terms

• langarolo
• langhiano