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Gray langur

Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, monkey), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, tail) (compare लाङ्गूलिन् (lāṅgūlin, tailed; monkey)).

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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.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindustani لنگور / लंगूर (laṅgūr, monkey), from Sanskrit लाङ्गूल (lāṅgūla, tail).

Noun

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langur m (plural langurs)

  1. langur (Old World monkey)

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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langur (comparative longri, superlative longstur)

  1. long

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langur a13
Singular (eintal) m (kallkyn) f (kvennkyn) n (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall) langur long langt
Accusative (hvønnfall) langan langa
Dative (hvørjumfall) longum langari longum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (langs) (langar) (langs)
Plural (fleirtal) m (kallkyn) f (kvennkyn) n (hvørkikyn)
Nominative (hvørfall) langir langar long
Accusative (hvønnfall) langar
Dative (hvørjumfall) longum
Genitive (hvørsfall) (langa)

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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

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langur (comparative lengri, superlative lengstur)

  1. long (of distance or time or the length of an object)
  2. tall

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Noun

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langur m

  1. only used in set phrases

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    Declension of langur
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative langur langurinn langar langarnir
accusative lang langinn langa langana
dative lang langnum löngum löngunum
genitive langs langsins langa langanna

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Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin languor.

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langur m or f

  1. (Anglo-Norman) languor (weakness due to illness)
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 222, 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

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  • 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).

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Spanish

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Noun

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langur m (plural langures)

  1. langur