Standard Lemma guide

longan

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋɡən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈlɔŋɡən/
  • cot-caught-merger: /ˈlɑŋɡən/
  • rhymes with -ɒŋɡən
  • CMU ARPABET: L AA1 NG G AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An evergreen tree, Dimocarpus longan, of the Sapindaceae family, native to southern China.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The fruit from the longan tree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: lungen, longanberry, Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, Nephelium longana

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit tree

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 龍眼 /龙眼 (lung4 ngaan5, literally “dragon’s eye”). Doublet of Longyan (“grape”).

Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Burmese: တောကြက်မောက် (tau:krakmauk) — tree
  • Chinese Cantonese: 龍眼樹 /龙眼树 (lung4 ngaan5 syu6) — tree
  • Hakka Chinese: 牛眼樹 /牛眼树 (ngiù-ngién-su) — tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 龍眼樹 /龙眼树 (lóngyǎnshù) — tree
  • Esperanto: longano — tree
  • Finnish: longaani — tree
  • French: longanier — tree
  • Japanese: リュウガン (ryūgan) — tree
  • Khmer: មៀន (miən) — tree
  • Mongolian: лууны нүд (luuny nüd) — tree
  • Portuguese: longana — tree
  • Russian: лонга́н (longán) — tree
  • Spanish: longuián — tree
  • Spanish: longan — tree
  • Tày: mác cại lái — tree
  • Thai: ลําไย (lam-yai) — tree
  • Vietnamese: nhãn — tree
  • Zhuang: faexnganx — tree
  • Burmese: ကြက်မောက်သီး (krakmauksi:) — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 龍眼 /龙眼 — fruit
  • Hakka Chinese: 牛眼 (ngiù-ngién) — fruit
  • Chinese: 龍眼 /龙眼 (zh-min-nan) — fruit
  • Literary Chinese: 龍目 (lóngmù) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 龍眼 /龙眼 (lóngyǎn) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 桂圓 /桂圆 (guìyuán) — fruit
  • Esperanto: longano — fruit
  • Finnish: longaani — fruit
  • French: longane — fruit
  • Indonesian: lengkeng — fruit
  • Indonesian: kelengkeng — fruit
  • Japanese: 竜眼 (ryūgan) — fruit
  • Javanese: klèngkèng — fruit
  • Kazakh: ұлукөз (ūluköz) — fruit
  • Kazakh: лонган (loñan) — fruit
  • Khmer: មៀន (miən) — fruit
  • Korean: 롱간 (ronggan) — fruit
  • Lao: ຫມາກລໍາໄຍ (māk lam nyai) — fruit
  • Manchu: ᠮᡠᠶᠠᡵᡳ (muyari) — fruit
  • Mongolian: лууны нүд (luuny nüd) — fruit
  • Portuguese: longana — fruit
  • Portuguese: longan — fruit
  • Russian: лонга́н (longán) — fruit
  • Spanish: longuián — fruit
  • Spanish: ojo de dragón — fruit
  • Spanish: longan — fruit
  • Tagalog: gingging — fruit
  • Thai: ลําไย (lam-yai) — fruit
  • Uyghur: لۇڭيەن (lungyen) — fruit
  • Vietnamese: nhãn — fruit
  • Zhuang: maknganx — fruit