Langhe

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A hilly area in southwestern Piedmont, Italy.
  2. 2
    A town in Danjiangkou, Shiyan, Hubei, China.

    "Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]"

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"Early last December, the provincial party committee sent five rural socialist ideological education teams to Danjiangkou's (Langhe) town, Hanchuan County's (Liujiage)[...]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Italian Langhe, plural of Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin.

Etymology 2

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浪河 (Lànghé).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.