郎
Meanings
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- 1.(arch.) minister
- 2.official
- 3.noun prefix denoting function or status
- 4.a youth
- 1.surname Lang
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Wiktionary
- 1.an official's title
- 2.man; male adult
- 3.A term of address used by women for their husband or lover: darling; love
- 4.A term of address used by servants for their master: sir; master
- 5.father
- 6.young person
- 7.someone else's son
- 8.soldier
- 9.man of a particular occupation
- 10.A term of address for a poor, lowly person.
- 11.son-in-law (daughter's husband)
- 12.Lang (a town in the state of Lu, near modern Qufu, Shandong, China)
- 13.Lang (a town in the state of Lu, in the northeastern part of modern Yutai, Shandong, China)
- 14.a surname
- 15.only used in 屎殼郎／屎壳郎 (shǐkelàng)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *raːŋ): phonetic 良 (OC *raŋ) + semantic 邑 (“county; town”). STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-laŋ (“penis; male; husband”), including Burmese လင် (lang, “husband”) as a descendant. However, Zev Handel considers comparison to this root to be improbable since the meaning of "husband; young man" is not attested in early texts. These senses seem to develop from "an official's title", which was a metonymic extension of "veranda or corridor (of a palace or mansion)" (later written as 廊) (Schuessler, 2007). Schuessler (2007) suggests that the Burmese word is a loan from Chinese.
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