# lunge
## English
### Alternative forms

* longe (US)

### Etymology

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lʌnd͡ʒ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnd͡ʒ

### Noun

lunge (plural lunges)
* A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
** 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎:A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.
* A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
* An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
* A fish, the namaycush.

#### Derived terms

* lunge whip

#### Translations

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### Verb

lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
* (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
    I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
** 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork:With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
* (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

#### Derived terms

* lungeing cavesson
* lungeing rein

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Leung

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔŋə]

### Noun

lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
* (anatomy) lung

#### Derived terms

* lungebetændelse
* lungekapacitet
* lungekræft
* lungetransplantation

### References

* “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlun.d͡ʒe/
* Rhymes: -undʒe
* Hyphenation: lùn‧ge

### Adverb

lunge
* (archaic) Alternative form of lungi

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.

### Noun

lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
* (anatomy) a lung

#### Derived terms

* lungebetennelse
* lungekreft
* lungeskade

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²lʊŋːə/

### Noun

lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
* (anatomy) a lung

#### Derived terms

* lungebetennelse
* lungekreft
* lungeskade

### Further reading

* “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.