Also lungoor, lungar, langour. [Hindi langūr, cogn. w. Skr. lāṅgūlin, having a tail.] The name applied in India to certain species of monkeys of the genus Semnopithecus, esp. S. entellus (see ENTELLUS) and S. schistaceus.
a. 1826. Heber, Journ. Upper Prov. Ind. (1828), II. 103. Why do you challenge the lungoor? he cannot answer you!
1842. Penny Cycl., XXI. 223. Lungar.
1860. W. H. Russell, Diary India, I. 249. The trees … affording … cover to innumerable langours.
1880. V. Ball, Jungle Life India, i. 3. Troops of long-tailed monkeys called Langurs.
