organ

bodily organs

vital organ

No matter the extraordinary progress that has been made in heart surgery over the past century, the heart remains a vulnerable organ.

2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 98:

The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.

This Organ is called a Thermometer, or Thermoscope, because the degrees of Heat and Cold are measured and marked by it.

1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy:

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.

An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.

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A government organization; agency; authority.

If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:

Lieutenant Roberts was also severely wounded by a missile, or weapon called an Organ, which is composed of about thirty-six gun barrels so joined as to fire at once.

1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61:

(historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.

→ Korean: 오르간 (oreugan)

→ Maori: ōkana

→ Vietnamese: oóc-gan

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words derived from "organ" and meaning "penis"

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.


organ

Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses:

(obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.

en-verb

organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)

organs (present singular third-person)
organing (participle present)
organed (participle past)
organed (past)


organ

(biology) a larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.

(music) a musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.

an official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.

mouthpiece, a spokesperson or medium aligned with an organisation.

From Dutch orgaan, from Middle Dutch organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon).


organ

ms-noun

organ (Jawi spelling اورݢن, plural organ-organ, informal 1st possessive organku, 2nd possessive organmu, 3rd possessive organnya)

اورݢن (Jawi)
organ-organ (plural)
organku (first-person informal possessive)
organmu (possessive second-person)
organnya (possessive third-person)


organ

an organ (publication which represents an organisation)

organet (definite singular)
organ (indefinite plural)
organer (indefinite plural)
organa (definite plural)
organene (definite plural)

From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon).


organ

organet (definite singular)
organ (indefinite plural)
organa (definite plural)

From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), via Latin organum.


organ

organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)

(government) organ (body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions)

(politics) organ (official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization)

(in the plural) organ, pipe organ (largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action)

(in the plural) organ, pipe organ (electronic instrument designed to replicate the pipe organ)

pl-noun

organ m inan (related adjective organowy)

organowy (adjective)
organ (nominative singular)
organy (nominative plural)
organu (genitive singular)
organów (genitive plural)
organowi (dative singular)
organom (dative plural)
organ (accusative singular)
organy (accusative plural)
organem (instrumental singular)
organami (instrumental plural)
organie (locative singular)
organach (locative plural)
organie (singular vocative)
organy (plural vocative)


organ

organe (plural)
organ (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
organul (accusative definite nominative singular)
organe (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
organele (accusative definite nominative plural)
organ (indefinite singular)
organului (definite singular)
organe (indefinite plural)
organelor (definite plural)
organule (singular vocative)
organelor (plural vocative)

From Byzantine Greek ὄργανος (órganos), from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *orъganъ. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. orgă), Latin organum, Italian organo.


organ

òrgān (canonical masculine)
о̀рга̄н (Cyrillic)
òrgān (nominative singular)
organi (nominative plural)
organa (genitive singular)
orgána (genitive plural)
organu (dative singular)
organima (dative plural)
organ (accusative singular)
organe (accusative plural)
organe (singular vocative)
organi (plural vocative)
organu (locative singular)
organima (locative plural)
organom (instrumental singular)
organima (instrumental plural)


organ

a (state) body that performs societal functions

Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst

She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation

an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)

organ (indefinite nominative singular)
organs (genitive indefinite singular)
organet (definite nominative singular)
organets (definite genitive singular)
organ (indefinite nominative plural)
organs (genitive indefinite plural)
organen (definite nominative plural)
organens (definite genitive plural)


organ

(Vietnam) keyboard (device with keys of a musical keyboard)

[ʔɔk̚˧˦ ɣaːn˧˧]

[ʔɔk̚˦˧˥ ɣaːŋ˧˧]

[ʔɔk̚˦˥ ɣaːŋ˧˧]