different between rong vs dong

English

Adjective

rong

1. Misspelling of wrong.

Noun

rong

1. Misspelling of wrong.

Verb

rong

1. Misspelling of wrong.

Chuukese

Verb

rong

1. to hear

Dimasa

Etymology

From Assamese ?? (ro?).

Noun

rong

1. color

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly onomatopoetic. Compare Livonian ra?g.

Noun

rong (genitive rongi, partitive rongi)

1. train

Declension

Garo

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (ra?ga, “color”)

Noun

rong

1. color

Mandarin

Romanization

rong

1. Nonstandard spelling of r?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of róng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of r?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of ròng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (rong) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Noun

rong (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. color

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zaw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?aw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?aw??m??]

Etymology 1

Noun

(classifier cây) rong • (?)

1. seaweedlike algae
2. seaweed

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

rong

1. wandering

Derived terms

Related terms

• rông

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).

Noun

dong (plural dongs or dong)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ?

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. (slang) A penis.
   • 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)

     Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
     Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?

2. (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Related terms

• ding-dong

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.

Translations

Verb

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

1. Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.

Etymology 4

Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)

Noun

dong (plural dongs)

1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

Anagrams

• Gond, gnod

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Syncope of dorang.

Pronoun

dong

1. they

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dung?. Cognate to English dung.

Noun

dong m (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure

   Synonym: mest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hungarian

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do??]
• Rhymes: -o??
• Homophone: ??ng

Verb

dong

1. (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
2. (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

See also

• ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)

References

Further reading

• dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Mandarin

Romanization

dong

1. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

dong

1. Alternative form of donge

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)

1. (slang) condom

Portuguese

Noun

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [zaw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaw??m??]

Verb

dong

1. drive, escort

Noun

(classifier cây) dong

1. Phrynium placentarium

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù??

Etymology

From dyngj.

Noun

dong m (definite dongen)

1. droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn

Zou

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to solicit

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??/

Verb

dong

1. (transitive) to intercept

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dóng

1. (transitive) to hinder

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do???/

Verb

dòng

1. (intransitive) to ask

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63