From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɔːɡən/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɔɹɡən/

organ (plural organs)

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

   bodily organs

   vital organ

2. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
3. (musical instruments) 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.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

4. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
5. Short for organ pipe cactus.
6. A government organization; agency; authority.
7. (slang) The penis.
8. (historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
   • 1790, H. Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803, page 61:

     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.

• organic
• organise or organize
• organism
• organist

• French: organe
• German: Organ
• Italian: organo
• Portuguese: órgão
• Russian: о́рган
• Spanish: órgano

• French: organe
• German: Organ
• Russian: о́рган
• Spanish: órgano

• French: orgue
• German: Orgel
• Italian: organo
• Portuguese: órgão
• Russian: орга́н
• Spanish: órgano

• German: Organ
• Italian: organo
• Portuguese: publicação oficial
• Russian: о́рган
• Spanish: publicación oficial

• Spanish: órgano

organ (organs, present participle organing; simple past and past participle organed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
   • 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses:

     Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.

From organ, a metonymic occupational surname for a player of a musical instrument.

1. Surname.
2. CDP in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.