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.
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Etymology 2

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).

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Proper noun

Langhe

  1. A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • 1992, Daily Report: China, numbers 9-16, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.
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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)

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