different between pung vs dung

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.

Noun

pung (plural pungs)

1. (US, Canada) A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.
   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, p. 213,^[1]

     […] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese ? (pèng).

Alternative forms

• pong

Noun

pung (plural pungs)

1. (mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• chow
• kong

Etymology 3

Verb

pung

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of ping

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Derived from Indonesian punya (“to have”) and Malay punya (“to have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?/

Verb

pung

1. (transitive) to have

Particle

pung

1. possessive particle

Aromanian

Verb

pung

1. Alternative form of pungu

Atong (India)

Etymology

From (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Noun

pung

1. granary, rice storehouse

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Chuukese

Adjective

pung

1. right, correct, just

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse pungr.

Noun

pung c (singular definite pungen, plural indefinite punge)

1. purse (small bag for carrying money)

   Synonym: pengepung

2. (anatomy) scrotum
3. (zoology) a pouch in marsupials where it rears its young during their early infancy

Inflection

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *po?ka (“tuber, boil, unevenness”), along with Hungarian bog.

Noun

pung (genitive punga, partitive punga)

1. bud

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• pung in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Icelandic

Noun

pung

1. indefinite accusative singular of pungur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pungr.

Noun

pung m (definite singular pungen, indefinite plural punger, definite plural pungene)

1. a pouch (including of marsupials)
2. a purse
3. (anatomy) a scrotum

   Synonym: skrotum

Derived terms

• pengepung
• pungdyr
• sminkepung

References

• “pung” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pungr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/

Noun

pung m (definite singular pungen, indefinite plural pungar, definite plural pungane)

1. a pouch (including of marsupials)
2. a purse
3. (anatomy) a scrotum

   Synonym: skrotum

Derived terms

• pengepung
• pungdyr
• sminkepung

References

• “pung” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish punger, from Old Norse pungr, itself of unknown origin.

Noun

pung c

1. purse (small bag used to keep small items)
2. scrotum

   Synonym: scrotum

3. a pouch in marsupials where it rears its young during their early infancy

Declension

Derived terms

• punga ut
• pengapung
• pungdjur
• pungkula
• pungråtta
• pungräv

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dung? (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act III, scene iv, line 129

     Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool […]

   • 1611, Authorized King James Version, Malachi 2:3

     Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496

     The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.

2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.

   • a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.

Synonyms

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate

Translations

Etymology 2

See ding

Verb

dung

1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

Etymology 3

unknown

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Etymology 4

Onomatopeia

Interjection

dung

1. Alternative spelling of dong (sound of a bell)

Anagrams

• UNDG

Middle English

Noun

dung

1. Alternative form of donge

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dun?/, [du??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *dungz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover; covering”)

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

dung f (nominative plural dyng)

1. dungeon, prison

Declension

Synonyms

• dimh?s

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *dung?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

dung f

1. dung, manure

Declension

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dungiz, *dungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eng?- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung m or f

1. weaving, weavingroom

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• dong

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese ?? (ph? dung, “wifely look”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [z?w??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [j?w??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [j?w??m??]
• Homophones: Dung, giun, vun, vung

Verb

dung

1. (archaic or literary) to tolerate

Noun

dung

1. (Confucianism) beauty, one of the t? ??c (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have

See also