langas

See also: lanġas, längas, and långas

Dupaningan Agta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ˈŋas/

Noun

langás

1. (anatomy) forehead; face

Synonyms

• kidap

Lithuanian

Langai

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian logs, Old Prussian lanxto; further origin outside of Baltic unclear. Buck and Fraenkel suggest a derivation from lingúoti (“to rock”), referring originally to swinging windows (that is, windows whose panes swing in and out to open) while Smoczynski suggests a derivation from lañkas (“bow”), owing to the semicircular shape of a bow resembling that of many windows. Either way, both derivations likely lead to a root from the same family as Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend, twine”).

Noun

lángas m (plural langaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. window

Declension

Declension of lángas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	lángas	langaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	lángo	langų̃
dative (naudininkas)	lángui	langáms
accusative (galininkas)	lángą	lángus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	lángu	langaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	langè	languosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	lánge	langaĩ

Further reading

• “langas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

Swedish

Verb

langas

1. passive infinitive of langa
2. present passive of langa

Anagrams

• anslag, galans, slagna, slanga