lagoon

English

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 and lacune.

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.

Derived terms

lagoon triggerfish

Translations

shallow body of water

Afrikaans: strandmeer
Albanian: laguna
Arabic: بُحَيْرة شاطِئَة f (buḥayra(t) šāṭiʔa), لَاجُون f (lājūn)
Armenian: ծովալճակ (hy) (covalčak)
Asturian: llaguna (ast) f
Aymara: isk'aqota
Bulgarian: лагу́на f (lagúna)
Catalan: llacuna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) (xìhú), 瀉湖／泻湖 (zh) (xièhú) (dated or non-standard form) , 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 (gl) f
Georgian: ლაგუნა (laguna)
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)
Latvian: lagūna f
Lithuanian: lagūna f
Macedonian: лагуна f (laguna)
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
Romanian: lagună (ro) f
Russian: лагу́на (ru) f (lagúna)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лагуна f

Roman: laguna f
Slovak: lagúna f
Slovene: laguna (sl) f
Spanish: laguna (es) f, estero (es), albufera (es) f
Swedish: lagun (sv) c, strandsjö c
Tagalog: bai (tl), lanaw
Thai: ลากูน (laa-guun)
Turkish: lagün (tr)
Ukrainian: лагу́на (uk) (lahúna)
Venetian: łaguna f
Vietnamese: phá (vi) (𫮒)
Zazaki: gampêl

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