Langhe

Langhe

English

Etymology 1

From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

the Langhe

1. A hilly area in southwestern Piedmont, Italy.

Coordinate terms

• Montferrat
• Roero

Translations

hilly area in Piedmont

Chinese: Mandarin: 朗格 (Lǎnggé) French: Langhe (fr) f pl, Langhes (fr) f pl Georgian: ლანგე (lange) Greek: Λάνγκε n (Lángke) Italian: Langhe f pl Japanese: ランゲ (Range) Korean: 랑게 (Rangge) Latin: Langae f pl Lithuanian: Langė f Piedmontese: Langhe f pl, Langa f Russian: Ла́нге n (Lánge) Ukrainian: Ла́нге n (Lánhe)

Etymology 2

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Lang-ho

Proper noun

Langhe

1. A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
   • 1992, Daily Report: China‎, number 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ISSN 0892-015X, OCLC 7522935, page 44:

     Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]

   • 2012 July 2, Huang Ying, “Program improves nutrition of students”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 05 December 2019:

     Peng Xiang (right), deputy secretary-general of Amway Charity Foundation, has lunch in the newly built kitchen under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project with students of Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, Hubei province. […]
     "When we came back to school at the beginning of this semester, all of us were very happy to see this change - a newly built dining hall with a well-equipped kitchen," said Zhou Jing, a fifth-grade student at Langhe Primary School in Shiyan, in Central China's Hubei province. […]
     The kitchen at Langhe was the first built this year under the Spring Seedling Kitchen Project, a charitable program focused on improving the nutrition of students at boarding schools in impoverished rural areas. It was the 301st built since the project was launched last year.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langhe.

Translations

town in central China

Chinese: Mandarin: 浪河 (Lànghé) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• hangle, lehnga

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.ɡe/
• Rhymes: -anɡe
• Hyphenation: Làn‧ghe

Proper noun

le Langhe f pl (plural only)

1. Langhe (a hilly area in Piedmont, Italy)

Coordinate terms

• Monferrato
• Roero

Derived terms

• langarolo
• langhiano