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Long
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Appendix:Variations of "long"
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɒŋ/
en ʊŋ 1
Proper noun
~ s
en nicknames. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
en Huey Long Huey Long
en w:Robert Reich Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants 2025-08-25 Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year. https://web.archive.org/web/20250825123306/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants
en ucomm co/Columbia County s/Washington c/USA.
en commune in dept/Somme r/Hauts-de-France c/France.
Derived terms
en Long County
en Longport New Jersey
en Longville
Etymology 2
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 隴 Lǒng.
Alternative forms
en Lung
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɒŋ/ /ˈlʊŋ/
lo͝ongcf. Lunghsien 1097 2 Until 1913, Lungchow.
Proper noun
~
en countable en Chinese.
en county prefecture-level city/Baoji province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1997 Stephen R. Bokenkamp Early Daoist Scriptures https://archive.org/details/earlydaoistscrip0000boke/ w:University of California Press 978-0-520-21931-1 96-43415 1045353345 346 https://archive.org/details/earlydaoistscrip0000boke/page/346/ “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
en 2002 Emma C. Bunker Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections https://archive.org/details/NomadicArtoftheEasternEurasianSteppesTheEugeneVThawandOtherNotableNewYorkCollection/ 1-58839-066-7 2002075328 1110813401 12325962M 24 https://archive.org/details/NomadicArtoftheEasternEurasianSteppesTheEugeneVThawandOtherNotableNewYorkCollection/page/n38/ Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
en 2019-09-06 Xiaolu Zhou Purge of Religious Symbols Invades Residents’ Privacy https://web.archive.org/web/20191230133405/https://bitterwinter.org/purge-of-religious-symbols-invades-residents-privacy/ 2019-12-30 w:Bitter Winter In May, plaques in Arabic on the lintels above doors of some Hui residents in Shangcha village in Long county under the jurisdiction of Baoji city in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, were replaced with phrases in Chinese, like “Harmony in the family leads to prosperity in all undertakings” and “Diligence and harmony make the family prosper.”
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 隴 Lǒng, cmn 隴縣
Japanese: ja
See also
en Long Wat
References
Anagrams
en glno OGNL NLOG
en heteronyms
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Loŋ:
is ɔŋː 1
Proper noun
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is
Declension
m,-:s.dat- f.indecl
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From lb goh lunga, from lb gem-pro *lungô. Cognate with de Lunge, nl long, en lung, is lunga.
Pronunciation
lb /loŋ/
lb oŋ 1
Noun
f
lung
lb Anatomy
Vietnamese
Etymology
龍 or vi 隆.
Pronunciation
vi long
Proper noun
Long
vi unisex Chinese
Derived terms
Huỳnh Phi Long