adj · 2 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.
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Pronunciation
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US:/ˈpʌl.məˌnɛ.ɹi/
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adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to, having, or affecting the lungs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective
Meaning 2
relating to or affecting the lungs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
pulmonary disease
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plauciai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Amharic:
የሳምባ
(yäsamba)
— related to lungs
Arabic:
رِئَوِيّ
(riʔawiyy)
— related to lungs
Armenian:
թոքային
(tʻokʻayin)
— related to lungs
Asturian:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Belarusian:
лёгачны
(ljóhačny)
— related to lungs
Bulgarian:
белодро́бен
(belodróben)
— related to lungs
Bulgarian:
пулмона́лен
(pulmonálen)
— related to lungs
Catalan:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Chinese Mandarin:
肺的
(fèi de)
— related to lungs
Czech:
plicní
— related to lungs
Danish:
lunge-
— related to lungs
Danish:
pulmonal
— related to lungs
Dutch:
long-
— related to lungs
Dutch:
pulmonair
— related to lungs
Dutch:
pulmonaal
— related to lungs
Esperanto:
pulma
— related to lungs
Faroese:
lungna-
— related to lungs
Finnish:
keuhko-
— related to lungs
Finnish:
pulmonaali-
— related to lungs
Finnish:
pulmonaalinen
— related to lungs
French:
pulmonaire
— related to lungs
Galician:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
German:
Lungen-
— related to lungs
Gujarati:
ફુફ્ફુસીય
(phuphphusīya)
— related to lungs
Gujarati:
ફેફસિયું
(phephsiyũ)
— related to lungs
Icelandic:
lunga-
— related to lungs
Icelandic:
lungna-
— related to lungs
Indonesian:
pulmoner
— related to lungs
Irish:
scamhógach
— related to lungs
Italian:
polmonare
— related to lungs
Japanese:
肺の
(hai no)
— related to lungs
Japanese:
肺性
(haisē)
— related to lungs
Kazakh:
өкпелік
(ökpelık)
— related to lungs
Korean:
폐의
(pye-ui)
— related to lungs
Macedonian:
белодробен
(belodroben)
— related to lungs
Malay:
paru-paru
— related to lungs
Malay:
peparu
— related to lungs
Malay:
pulmonari
— related to lungs
Norwegian Bokmål:
lunge-
— related to lungs
Occitan:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Persian:
ریوی
(riyavi)
— related to lungs
Polish:
płucny
— related to lungs
Portuguese:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Romanian:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Russian:
лёгочный
(ljógočnyj)
— related to lungs
Serbo-Croatian:
плу̑ћнӣ
— related to lungs
Serbo-Croatian:
plȗćnī
— related to lungs
Slovak:
pľúcny
— related to lungs
Slovene:
pljučen
— related to lungs
Spanish:
pulmonar
— related to lungs
Swedish:
lung-
— related to lungs
Swedish:
pulmonal
— related to lungs
Tajik:
шушӣ
(šuši)
— related to lungs
Ukrainian:
легене́вий
(lehenévyj)
— related to lungs
