tongue in Malay
lidah
/tʌŋ/
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Northern England/tʊŋɡ/
tongue in Malay: lidah, lisan, lidah kasut. In English, tongue means the flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
Malay words for tongue
- organ
- lidah, lisan
- flap in a shoe
- lidah kasut
English meaning of tongue
- noun The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- noun Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- noun Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- noun A language.
tongue in a sentence
- cold tongue with mustard
- He was speaking in his native tongue.
- She can have a sharp tongue when she's annoyed.
Synonyms of tongue
tongue in other languages
- tongue in Hindi
- tongue in Tamil
- tongue in Marathi
- tongue in Urdu
- tongue in Bengali
- tongue in Telugu
- tongue in Malayalam
- tongue in Kannada
- tongue in Punjabi
- tongue in Gujarati
- tongue in Odia
- tongue in Sanskrit
- tongue in Sinhala
- tongue in Assamese
- tongue in Nepali
- tongue in Pashto
- tongue in Tagalog
- tongue in Arabic
- tongue in Indonesian
- tongue in Persian
- tongue in Thai
- tongue in Vietnamese
- tongue in Myanmar
Questions about tongue in Malay
- What is the meaning of tongue in Malay?
- Tongue in Malay is lidah, lisan, lidah kasut.
- Apakah maksud tongue dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Tongue: lidah, lisan, lidah kasut.
- What does tongue mean in English?
- Tongue means the flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tongue (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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