# lengua
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

lengua (uncountable)
* A Mexican dish consisting of beef tongue used to make tacos.

### Anagrams

* langue, lagune, Luange, genual, Naugle, ulnage

## Ladino
### Noun

lengua f (Hebrew spelling לינגוה, plural lenguas)
* Alternative form of lingua
** 1979, Isaac ben Michael Badhav, Ana María Riaño López, Un tratado sefardí de moral‎, 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, 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.

### References

* ↑ “lengua”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Ligurian
### Alternative forms

* léngoa (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleŋɡwa/

### Noun

lengua f (plural lengue)
* (anatomy) tongue (flexible muscular organ in the mouth)
* (metonymically) language
    Synonym: lenguaggio
* (zoology) common sole (Solea solea)

#### Derived terms

* lengoa de can
* lenguaggio

## Lombard
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleːŋɡwa/‚ IPA: /ˈleŋɡwa/

### Noun

lengua f
* tongue
* (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)

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈleŋɡwə]

### Noun

lengua f (plural lengue)
* tongue
* language

### References

* 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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Noun

lengua
* Alternative form of lingua

### References

* 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

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* lenga

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* lengaje

#### Descendants

* Occitan: lenga
    Gascon: lengua
    Limousin: linga
    Provençal: lengo, lenguo

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

### Noun

lengua f (plural lenguas)
* (anatomy) tongue
* (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)

#### Descendants

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

### References

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

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

### Noun

lengua f (plural lenguas)
* (Vallader) tongue

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlenɡwa/ [ˈlẽŋ.ɡwa]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -enɡwa
* Syllabification: len‧gua

### Noun

lengua f (plural lenguas)
* tongue (organ)
* (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
* Spanish (subject taught in schools)

#### Derived terms

* aflojar la lengua
* andar en lenguas
* atar la lengua
* beso con lengua
* darle a la lengua
* de lengua en lengua
* deslenguar
* don de lenguas
* en la punta de la lengua
* familia de lenguas
* hablar en lenguas
* hacerse lenguas de
* interpretación de lenguas
* irse de la lengua
* joven de lenguas
* lengua aislada
* lengua cervina
* lengua de buey
* lengua de ciervo
* lengua de escorpión
* lengua de estropajo
* lengua de fuego
* lengua de gato
* lengua de hacha
* lengua de oc
* lengua de oíl
* lengua de oveja
* lengua de perro
* lengua de señas
* lengua de sierpe
* lengua de signos
* lengua de tierra
* lengua de trapo
* lengua de vaca
* lengua de víbora
* lengua del agua
* lengua extranjera
* lengua franca
* lengua materna
* lengua minoritaria
* lengua muerta
* lengua natural
* lengua viperina
* lenguaraz
* lengüeta
* lengüicorto
* lenguón
* malas lenguas
* no tener pelos en la lengua
* segunda lengua
* trabalenguas
* trabarse la lengua
* trastrabarse la lengua

#### Related terms

* lenguaje
* lenguaz
* lingual
* lingüiforme
* lingüística

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: lengua
* Papiamentu: lenga

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10