limbă

See also: limba and limbã

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua.

Noun

limbă f

1. tongue
2. language

Romanian

Alternative forms

• лимбэ (limbă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lingua. Compare Aromanian limbã. For the /ɡʷ/ > /b/ sound change, cf. Sardinian limba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlim.bə/

• Audio (female voice):

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• Rhymes: -imbə
• Hyphenation: lim‧bă

Noun

limbă f (plural limbi)

1. tongue
2. language

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	limbă	limba		limbi	limbile
genitive-dative	limbi	limbii		limbi	limbilor
vocative	limbă, limbo			limbilor

Derived terms

• limbaj
• limbă vecină (“hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium”)

Related terms

• limbut
• lingură

Further reading

• limbă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)