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• lĕng(k)th
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• lĕn(t)th
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lɛŋ(k)θ/
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lɛn(t)θ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /leŋ(k)θ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /len(t)θ/
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• US, dialectal: /leɪŋ(k)θ/
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• US, dialectal: /leɪn(t)θ/
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• Canada, US, dialectal: /læŋ(k)θ/
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• rhymes with -ɛŋkθ
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• rhymes with -ɛntθ
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• rhymes with -ɛnθ
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• CMU ARPABET: L EH1 NG K TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: L EH1 NG TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

158 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gjatësia — distance along the longest dimension
• Southern Altai: бой (boy) — distance along the longest dimension
• Southern Altai: узун (uzun) — distance along the longest dimension
• Amharic: ርዝመት (rəzmät) — distance along the longest dimension
• Amharic: እርዝመት (ʾərzəmät) — distance along the longest dimension
• Arabic: طُول (ṭūl) — distance along the longest dimension
• Arabic: طول (ṭūl) — distance along the longest dimension
• Aramaic: אורכא (ūrkā, ūrko) — distance along the longest dimension
• Aramaic: ܐܘܪܟܐ (ūrkā, ūrko) — distance along the longest dimension
• Armenian: երկարություն (erkarutʻyun) — distance along the longest dimension
• Assamese: দীঘ (digh) — distance along the longest dimension
• Asturian: llargor — distance along the longest dimension
• Asturian: llargu — distance along the longest dimension
• Azerbaijani: uzunluq — distance along the longest dimension
• Bashkir: оҙонлоҡ (oźonloq) — distance along the longest dimension
• Bashkir: буй (buy) — distance along the longest dimension
• Belarusian: даўжыня́ (dawžynjá) — distance along the longest dimension
• Bengali: দৈর্ঘ্য (dōirggho) — distance along the longest dimension
• Breton: hed — distance along the longest dimension
• Bulgarian: дължина́ (dǎlžiná) — distance along the longest dimension
• Burmese: အလျား (a.lya:) — distance along the longest dimension
• Catalan: longitud — distance along the longest dimension
• Catalan: llargada — distance along the longest dimension
• Cherokee: ᏂᎦᏅᎯᏒ (niganvhisv) — distance along the longest dimension
• Chinese Cantonese: 長度 /长度 (coeng4 dou6) — distance along the longest dimension
• Chinese: 長度 /长度 (zh-min-nan) — distance along the longest dimension
• Chinese Mandarin: 長度 /长度 (chángdù) — distance along the longest dimension
• Chinese Mandarin: 長 /长 (cháng) — distance along the longest dimension
• Czech: délka — distance along the longest dimension
• Danish: længde — distance along the longest dimension
• Dutch: lengte — distance along the longest dimension
• Egyptian: Aw-w-Y1V (ꜣw) — distance along the longest dimension
• Esperanto: longo — distance along the longest dimension
• Esperanto: longeco — distance along the longest dimension
• Estonian: pikkus — distance along the longest dimension
• Faroese: longd — distance along the longest dimension
• Finnish: pituus — distance along the longest dimension
• French: longueur — distance along the longest dimension
• West-Frisian: lingtemaat — distance along the longest dimension
• West-Frisian: lingte — distance along the longest dimension
• Galician: lonxitude — distance along the longest dimension
• German: Länge — distance along the longest dimension
• German: Längenmaß — distance along the longest dimension
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌴𐌹 (laggei) — distance along the longest dimension
• Greek: μήκος (míkos) — distance along the longest dimension
• Ancient Greek: μῆκος (mêkos) — distance along the longest dimension
• Hanunoo: aba — distance along the longest dimension
• Hebrew: אורך \ אֹרֶךְ — distance along the longest dimension
• Hindi: लंबाई (lambāī) — distance along the longest dimension
• Hungarian: hossz — distance along the longest dimension
• Hungarian: hosszúság — distance along the longest dimension
• Icelandic: lengd — distance along the longest dimension
• Ido: longeso — distance along the longest dimension
• Indonesian: panjang — distance along the longest dimension
• Indonesian: bujur — distance along the longest dimension
• Interlingua: longitude — distance along the longest dimension
• Irish: fad — distance along the longest dimension
• Italian: lunghezza — distance along the longest dimension
• Japanese: 長さ (nagasa) — distance along the longest dimension
• Japanese: 全長 (zenchō) — distance along the longest dimension
• Javanese: dawa — distance along the longest dimension
• Kazakh: ұзындық (ūzyndyq) — distance along the longest dimension
• Khmer: ប្រវែង (prɑvaeŋ) — distance along the longest dimension
• Khmer: បណ្ដោយ (bɑndaoy) — distance along the longest dimension
• Korean: 길이 (giri) — distance along the longest dimension
• Central Kurdish: درێژایی (drêjayî) — distance along the longest dimension
• Northern Kurdish: dirêjahî — distance along the longest dimension
• Northern Kurdish: dirêjî — distance along the longest dimension
• Northern Kurdish: dirêjatî — distance along the longest dimension
• Kyrgyz: узундук (uzunduk) — distance along the longest dimension
• Lao: ຄວາມຍາວ (khuā ma nyāo) — distance along the longest dimension
• Latin: longitūdō — distance along the longest dimension
• Latvian: garums — distance along the longest dimension
• Lithuanian: ilgis — distance along the longest dimension
• Lithuanian: ilgumas — distance along the longest dimension
• Luxembourgish: Längt — distance along the longest dimension
• Macedonian: должина (dolžina) — distance along the longest dimension
• Malay: panjang — distance along the longest dimension
• Malay: kepanjangan — distance along the longest dimension
• Malayalam: നീളം (nīḷaṁ) — distance along the longest dimension
• Maltese: tul — distance along the longest dimension
• Māori: roa — distance along the longest dimension
• Māori: whāroa — distance along the longest dimension
• Māori: tiāroa — distance along the longest dimension
• Marathi: लंबी (lambī) — distance along the longest dimension
• Navajo: nineezgo — distance along the longest dimension
• Norman: londgeu — distance along the longest dimension
• Norwegian Bokmål: lengde — distance along the longest dimension
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lengd — distance along the longest dimension
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lengde — distance along the longest dimension
• Occitan: longor — distance along the longest dimension
• Old English: lenġu — distance along the longest dimension
• Oromo: dheerina — distance along the longest dimension
• Pannonian Rusyn: длужина (dlužina) — distance along the longest dimension
• Papiamentu: largura — distance along the longest dimension
• Persian: طول (tul) — distance along the longest dimension
• Persian: درازا (derâzâ) — distance along the longest dimension
• Polish: długość — distance along the longest dimension
• Portuguese: comprimento — distance along the longest dimension
• Portuguese: extensão — distance along the longest dimension
• Punjabi: ਲਾਬ (lāb) — distance along the longest dimension
• Quechua: karu kay — distance along the longest dimension
• Romanian: lungime — distance along the longest dimension
• Russian: длина́ (dliná) — distance along the longest dimension
• Scots: lenth — distance along the longest dimension
• Scottish Gaelic: fad — distance along the longest dimension
• Serbo-Croatian: дужина — distance along the longest dimension
• Serbo-Croatian: dužina — distance along the longest dimension
• Slovak: dĺžka — distance along the longest dimension
• Slovene: dolžina — distance along the longest dimension
• Somali: dherer — distance along the longest dimension
• Lower Sorbian: dłujkosć — distance along the longest dimension
• Upper Sorbian: dołhosć — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: largo — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: eslora — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: longitud — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: largor — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: largura — distance along the longest dimension
• Spanish: largueza — distance along the longest dimension
• Sranan Tongo: langa — distance along the longest dimension
• Swahili: urefu — distance along the longest dimension
• Swedish: längd — distance along the longest dimension
• Tagalog: haba — distance along the longest dimension
• Tajik: тул (tul) — distance along the longest dimension
• Tamil: நீளம் (nīḷam) — distance along the longest dimension
• Tatar: озынлык (ozınlıq) — distance along the longest dimension
• Telugu: పొడవు (poḍavu) — distance along the longest dimension
• Thai: ความยาว (kwaam yaao) — distance along the longest dimension
• Turkish: uzunluk — distance along the longest dimension
• Turkmen: uzynlyk — distance along the longest dimension
• Turkmen: uzaklyk — distance along the longest dimension
• Ukrainian: довжина́ (dovžyná) — distance along the longest dimension
• Urdu: لمبائی (lãmbāī) — distance along the longest dimension
• Uzbek: uzunlik — distance along the longest dimension
• Vietnamese: chiều dài — distance along the longest dimension
• Welsh: hyd — distance along the longest dimension
• Yiddish: לענג (leng) — distance along the longest dimension
• Yucatec Maya: chowakil — distance along the longest dimension
• Zhuang: dohraez — distance along the longest dimension
• Zulu: ubude — distance along the longest dimension
• Finnish: pituus — duration — see also duration
• Finnish: kesto — duration — see also duration
• French: durée — duration — see also duration
• Polish: długość — duration — see also duration
• Spanish: duración — duration — see also duration
• Bashkir: буй (buy) — length of a horse
• Finnish: hevosenmitta — length of a horse
• German: Pferdelänge — length of a horse
• Hungarian: hossz — length of a horse
• Indonesian: panjang kuda — length of a horse
• Japanese: 馬身 (bashin) — length of a horse
• Turkish: boy — length of a horse
• Finnish: pituus — math: distance between the two ends of a line segment
• Galician: lonxitude — math: distance between the two ends of a line segment
• Finnish: pituus — figuratively: total extent
• Polish: długość — figuratively: total extent
• Finnish: mitta — part of something that is long; a physical piece of something
• Finnish: pätkä — part of something that is long; a physical piece of something