# leng
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛŋ

### Adjective

leng (comparative lenger, superlative lengest)
* Alternative form of peng (“attractive, excellent”).
** 2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, page 26:Sometimes she got comments on her selfies calling her ‘leng’, and that went some way to making her happy.
** 2023, “Outside”, performed by Br3nya:I'm rolling with my G's and my gang gang / Every time I walk by, they say "leng leng"

#### Derived terms

* lengity

#### Related terms

* leng zai

### Noun

leng (countable and uncountable, plural lengs)
* Alternative form of peng (“attractive woman”).
** 2017 December 1, Faultsz (lyrics and music), “Raw to the Core”, in Raw to the Core‎, 2:31–2:37:Hot gyal there, she look peng-peng-peng Wanna, come to my yard like when-when-when? I don't wanna hear no one chatting about leng Ten toes in your block manna get qweng

### Anagrams

* Gen'l, glen, gen'l, Genl, Engl, Glen, NELG, Engl., genl

## Cimbrian
### Etymology

From Middle High German legen, from Old High German legen, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”). Cognate with German legen, English lay.

### Verb

leng (auxiliary håm)
* (Luserna) to lay

#### Related terms

* leng å

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Dutch
### Etymology

Related to English ling, Old Norse langa. Likely derives from the same root as lang (“long”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

leng m (plural lengen, diminutive lengetje n)
* common ling (Molva molva)

### Further reading

* leng on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛŋɡ]
* Hyphenation: leng
* Rhymes: -ɛŋɡ

### Verb

leng
* (intransitive) to swing, oscillate, sway, rock

#### Derived terms

* felleng (archaic) → fellengő(s), fellengző(s)
* lenge
* lengedez(ik)
* lenget
(With verbal prefixes):
* átleng
* beleng
* elleng
* kileng
* körülleng
* teng-leng

#### Related terms

* lebeg
* lendít, lendül
* reng

### References

* ↑ leng in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* leng in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Makasar
### Etymology

From Dutch lijm (“glue”). Compare Indonesian lem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleŋ/, [ˈlẽŋ]
* Hyphenation: leng

### Noun

leng (Lontara spelling ᨒᨙ)
* glue
    Synonym: parakkaʼ

#### Compounds

* leng sapeda

### Further reading

* Cense, A. A. (1979) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leŋ/
* Rhymes: -eŋ

### Noun

leng (Jawi spelling ليݞ, informal 1st possessive lengku, 2nd possessive lengmu, 3rd possessive lengnya)
* (units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to an imperial pint.

### Further reading

* “leng” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mandarin
### Romanization

leng
* Nonstandard spelling of lēng.
* Nonstandard spelling of léng.
* Nonstandard spelling of lěng.
* Nonstandard spelling of lèng.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mochica
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /leŋ/

### Noun

leng
* water

#### Synonyms

* là

### References

* José Antonio Salas, Diccionario mochica-castellano, castellano-mochica (2002)

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *langa-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *langa- (“lame”). Confer Persian لنگ (leng, “lame; leg”), Central Kurdish لەنگ (leng), Sanskrit लङ्ग (laṅga, “lame”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛŋɡ/

### Adjective

leng (Arabic spelling لەنگ)
* lame, limping
    Synonym: topal
* (literal and figurative) awkward

### Noun

leng m (Arabic spelling لەنگ)
* Alternative form of ling (“leg; foot”)

#### Declension
### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “leng I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 441
* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “leng II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 441

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *langi, from Proto-Germanic *langiz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lenj/, [lend͡ʒ]

### Adverb

lenġ
* longer (comparative degree of lange)
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Ash-Wednesday"
    Þā cwæð eall sēo meniu þe ðǣr mid stōd ofwundrod þæt sē cwellere ne sceolde swencan hī nā leng...Then said all the multitude who stood there astonished,that the executioner should vex her no longer,...
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:66
    Siþþan maniġe his leornungcneohta ċierdon onbæc and lenġ ne ēodon mid him.After that, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Related to Persian لنگ (lang).

### Adjective

leng
* lame
* limping

## Zou
### Noun

leng
* pigeon

#### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45