lengua

Meaning

1. (feminine) tongue (organ)
2. (countable, feminine) 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)
3. (feminine) Spanish (subject taught in schools)

Concepts

tongue

👅

language

speech

mouth

natural language

clapper

🎬

voice

word

tongue

👅

vernacular

Lengua

glossa

brain as food

heart as food

kidney as food

liver as food

lung as food

stomach as food

tongue as food

beef tongue

linguistic communication

identification prisoner

prisoner for interrogation

prisoner who will talk

tongue

👅

Basque language

Mandarin

🍊

conversation

Forro

lingo

lingua

offal

spit

talk

🗣️

Synonyms

idioma

lenguaje

habla

palabra

voz

corazón

❤️

diálogo

diccionario

hablador

hígado

órgano

pico

riñón

saludo

👋

sesos

término

🔚

tripa

bofe

cuba

dicción

lengua natural

lengüeta

menudos

prisionero

rejo

lenguaje natural

asadura

despojos comestibles

acción expresiva

poder expresivo

verbo o expresión

lengua de buey

singüeso

expresión

lengua de res

aguijón

charla

🗣️

chismoso

conversación

Translations

langue

👅

lingua

👅

língua

👅

Zunge

👅

Sprache

llengua

👅

lingua

👅

γλώσσα

tong

👅

dil

taal

ziman

lenga

idioma

Hyphenated as

len‧gua

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlenɡwa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish: lengua

Inherited from Latin: lingua

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish lengua, from Latin lingua.

Sentences

Durante años la principal figura de la Academia Dominicana de la Lengua .

For years the main figure of the Dominican Academy of Language.

Mientras que su principal lengua es la Náhuatl y la segunda es la Mazahua .

While its main language is Nahuatl and the second is Mazahua.

Durante un tiempo ejerció como docente dando clases de lengua y literatura .

For a while he worked as a teacher giving language and literature classes.

Saussure se ocupa sobre todo de la primera , la lingüística de la lengua .

Saussure deals above all with the first, the linguistics of language.

La población utiliza como lengua cotidiana , un dialecto alto alemánico .

The population uses a High Germanic dialect as an everyday language.

Lamb entiende la lengua como una síntesis de reacciones , no directamente observables .

Lamb understands language as a synthesis of reactions, not directly observable.