lagoon

English

The Venetian Lagoon.

Alternative forms

lagune (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ləˈɡuːn/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

lagoon (plural lagoons)

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

Translations

shallow body of water

Afrikaans: strandmeer
Asturian: llaguna (ast) f
Aymara: isk'aqota
Bulgarian: лагуна f (laguna)
Catalan: llacuna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) (xìhú), (considered non-standard or misspelling) 瀉湖／泻湖 (zh) (xièhú), 環礁湖／环礁湖 (huánjiāohú)
Classical Nahuatl: ilhuicaāmāitl
Czech: laguna (cs) f
Danish: lagune (da) c, strandsø (da) c
Dutch: lagune (nl) f
Esperanto: laguno
Estonian: laguun (et)
Finnish: laguuni (fi)
French: lagon (fr) m, lagune (fr) f, étang (fr) m
Galician: lagoa f
German: Lagune (de) f
Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα (el) f (limnothálassa)
Ancient: τέναγος n (ténagos)
Hebrew: לָגוּנָה‎ (he) f (laguna)
Higaonon: danaw
Hindi: झील (hi) (jhīl)
Hungarian: lagúna (hu)
Ido: laguno (io)
Italian: laguna (it) f
Japanese: ラグーン (ragūn), 潟 (ja) (かた, kata), 潟湖 (せきこ, sekiko)
Kazakh: лагуна (laguna)
Korean: 석호(潟湖) (ko) (seokho), 라군 (ragun)
Malay: lagun
Manx: mooirlagh
Maori: muriwai, hāpua
Northern Sotho: letshanatswai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lagune m, strandsjø m
Nynorsk: lagune m or f, strandsjø m
Occitan: lòna (oc) f
Persian: مرداب‎ (fa) (mordâb), تالاب‎ (fa) (tâlâb), لگون‎ (lagun), خفتاب‎ (xaftâb), کولاب‎ (fa) (kulâb), ایستاب‎ (fa) (istâb)
Plautdietsch: Lagoon f
Polish: laguna (pl) f
Portuguese: laguna f, albufeira f
Russian: лагу́на (ru) f (lagúna)
Spanish: laguna (es) f, estero (es), albufera (es) f
Swedish: lagun (sv) c, strandsjö c
Tagalog: bai (tl), lanaw
Ukrainian: лагу́на (uk) (lahúna)
Venetian: łaguna f
Vietnamese: phá (vi) (𫮒)
Zazaki: gampêl

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