English
Etymology
Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacūna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ləˈɡuːn/
- Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
lagoon (plural lagoons)
- A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
shallow body of water
- Afrikaans: strandmeer
- Albanian: laguna
- Arabic: بُحَيْرة شاطِئَة f (buḥayra(t) šāṭiʔa), لَاجُون f (lājūn)
- Armenian: ծովալճակ (hy) (covalčak)
- Asturian: llaguna (ast) f
- Aymara: isk'aqota
- Bulgarian: лагу́на f (lagúna)
- Catalan: llacuna (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 潟湖 (zh) (xìhú), 瀉湖 / 泻湖 (zh) (xièhú) (dated or non-standard form), 環礁湖 / 环礁湖 (huánjiāohú)
- Czech: laguna (cs) f
- Danish: lagune (da) c, strandsø (da) c
- Dutch: lagune (nl) f
- Esperanto: laguno
- Estonian: laguun (et)
- Finnish: laguuni (fi)
- French: lagon (fr) m, lagune (fr) f, étang (fr) m
- Galician: lagoa (gl) f
- Georgian: ლაგუნა (laguna)
- German: Lagune (de) f
- Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα (el) f (limnothálassa)
- Ancient Greek: τέναγος n (ténagos)
- Hawaiian: loko
- Hebrew: לָגוּנָה (he) f (laguna)
- Higaonon: danaw
- Hindi: अनूप झील f (anūp jhīl), अनूप (hi) (anūp)
- Hungarian: lagúna (hu)
- Ido: laguno (io)
- Italian: laguna (it) f
- Japanese: ラグーン (ja) (ragūn), 潟 (ja) (かた, kata), 潟湖 (ja) (せきこ, sekiko)
- Kazakh: лагуна (laguna)
- Korean: 석호(潟湖) (ko) (seokho), 라군 (ragun)
- Latvian: lagūna f
- Lithuanian: lagūna f
- Macedonian: лагуна f (laguna)
- Malay: lagun
- Manx: mooirlagh
- Māori: muriwai, hāpua
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: ilhuicaāmāitl
- Northern Sotho: letshanatswai
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lagune m, strandsjø m
- Nynorsk: lagune m or f, strandsjø m
- Occitan: lòna (oc) f
- Persian: مرداب (fa) (mordâb), تالاب (fa) (tâlâb), لگون (lagun), خفتاب (xaftâb), کولاب (fa) (kulâb), ایستاب (fa) (istâb)
- Plautdietsch: Lagoon f
- Polish: laguna (pl) f, zalew (pl) m
- Portuguese: laguna f, albufeira f
- Rarotongan: roto
- Romanian: lagună (ro) f
- Russian: лагу́на (ru) f (lagúna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лагуна f
- Latin: laguna f
- Slovak: lagúna f
- Slovene: laguna (sl) f
- Spanish: laguna (es) f (smaller than a lake, usually fresh water), estero (es), albufera (es) f (next to the sea), albina (es) f (next to the sea), albariza (es) f (brackish), cucha (es) f (Peru, same as laguna), cocha f
- Swedish: lagun (sv) c, strandsjö c
- Tagalog: bai (tl), lanaw
- Tahitian: roto (archaic)
- Thai: ลากูน (laa-guun)
- Turkish: lagün (tr)
- Ukrainian: лагу́на (uk) (lahúna)
- Venetan: łaguna f
- Vietnamese: phá (vi) (𫮒 (vi))
- Zazaki: gampêl
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