different between sing vs cantar

English

Etymology

From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *seng??-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?ng, IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)

1. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.

2. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
3. (transitive) To soothe with singing.

4. (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
   1. (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
   2. (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
5. (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
6. (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
7. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
   • 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure

     Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

8. (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.

9. (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
   • 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)

     No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.

Synonyms

• (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

Related terms

• song

Translations

Noun

sing (plural sings)

1. The act, or event, of singing songs.
   • 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:

     Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.

Derived terms

• singsong

See also

• singe

Anagrams

• IGNs, Ings, NGIs, gins, ings, nigs, sign, snig

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zingen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Verb

sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)

1. to sing

Derived terms

• gesonge (verbal adjective)

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sing

1. singular imperative of singen

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i??]
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

sing (plural singek)

1. (archaic) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)

Declension

Derived terms

• singcsont

References

Further reading

• sing 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

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC ?i??).

Noun

sing 

1. sound

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thii?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kja?. Cognates include Burmese ????? (hkyang:) and Chinese ? (ji?ng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. ginger

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thi?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Cognates include Burmese ??? (sac) and Chinese ? (x?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si???/

Noun

síng

1. tree

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

English

Noun

cantar (plural cantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

Anagrams

• arctan

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?.

Verb

cantar

1. to sing

Conjugation

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?.

Verb

cantar (first-person singular indicative present canto, past participle cantáu)

1. to sing

Conjugation

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan cantar, chantar, from Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n- (“to sing”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?n?ta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kan?ta?/
• Rhymes: -a(?)

Verb

cantar (first-person singular present canto, past participle cantat)

1. to sing

Conjugation

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cantar, from Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?n?ta?]

Verb

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantei, past participle cantado)

1. to sing
2. to chant
3. (of a cart or wagon) to screech, to squeak (the axle against its bearings)

Conjugation

Noun

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. song
   • 1978, Fuxan os Ventos, Sementeira (song):

     Sementar sementarei

     loguiño de crarear

     en tanto no pobo medre

     un meniño, un vello e un cantar

     Sowing I'll sow

     soon after it clears

     as long as among the people grow

     a child, an old man and a song

References

• “cantar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cantar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cantar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cantar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?tar/

Verb

cantar

1. to sing

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan??t?????/

Verb

cantar

1. present indicative/imperative and present subjunctive autonomous of can

Mutation

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chantar

Etymology

From Old Occitan cantar, chantar, from Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can?.

Verb

cantar

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) to sing

Conjugation

Related terms

• cantador

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can? (“I sing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã.?ta?/

Verb

cantar

1. to sing (to produce music with one’s voice)

   • E?ta e como ?anta maria re??ucitou ao men?o que o Judeu matara por que cantaua Gaude uirgo maria.

     This one is how Holy Mary resurrected the boy who the Jew had killed because he sang Gaude Virgo Maria.

Descendants

• Fala: cantal
• Galician: cantar
• Portuguese: cantar

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cantar, from Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /k??.?ta(?)/, [k???.?t?ä(?)]
• Hyphenation: can?tar

Verb

cantar (first-person singular present indicative canto, past participle cantado)

1. (transitive) to sing, to say musically

2. (intransitive) to sing (express sounds musically through the voice)

3. (transitive) to say with rhythm, chant

4. (transitive, colloquial) to attempt to seduce by flattery

   Synonym: seduzir

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cantar.

Related terms

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chantar
• (Puter) chanter

Etymology

From Latin cant?, cant?re.

Verb

cantar

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to sing

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n-. Cognate with English chant, French chanter, Italian cantare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?ta?/, [kãn??t?a?]

Verb

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite canté, past participle cantado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to sing

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. a type of shanty or popular song

Derived terms

• Cantar de los Cantares
• cantar de gesta (“chanson de geste”)
• ser otro cantar

Further reading

• “cantar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• tranca

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant?, frequentative of can?. Compare Italian cantare.

Verb

cantar

1. to sing

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.