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sing
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)
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
- (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
- 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?)
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- (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.
- 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)
Synonyms
- (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out
Derived terms
Related terms
- song
Translations
Noun
sing (plural sings)
- 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.
- 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:
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)
- to sing
Derived terms
- gesonge (verbal adjective)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
sing
- singular imperative of singen
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??i??]
- Rhymes: -i??
Noun
sing (plural singek)
- (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
- 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
- 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
- tree
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45
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song
English
Etymology
From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang (“noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay”), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *seng??- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ???? (omph?, “voice, oracle”). More at sing.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??/
- (US) IPA(key): /s??/, /s??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
song (plural songs)
- A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- (by extension) Any musical composition.
- Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
- The act or art of singing.
- A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- 1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims
- That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
- 1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims
- (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
- A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- 1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland
- his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- 1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland
- An object of derision; a laughing stock.
- And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- canticle
- go for a song
Anagrams
- NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, gons, nogs, snog
Atong (India)
Etymology
Cognate with Garo song. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
song
- village
Derived terms
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Bikol Central
Noun
song
- rhinoceros beetle
Chuukese
Adjective
song
- angry
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English song. Doublet of zang.
Pronunciation
Noun
song m (plural songs)
- song
- Synonyms: lied, liedje
Derived terms
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse sæing (“bed”), later sæng.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??k/
Noun
song f (genitive singular songar or seingjar, plural seingir or sengur)
- bed
Declension
See also
- kamar
- sovikamar
- svøvnposi
- svøvnur
- koddi
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
song
- village, hamlet
- classifier for villages
Derived terms
- songjinma
- songsal
Mandarin
Romanization
song
- Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of sòng.
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
Alternative forms
- sange, sang, songe, zang, zong, zonge, soong, songge
Etymology
From Old English sang, song, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?n?/, /s??n?/, /san?/, /sa?n?/
Noun
song (plural songes)
- A song (lyrical music):
- Religious or spiritual chanting or hymns.
- A exposition or story, especially a sung one.
- A song supposed to have occult or magical power.
- The practice or an instance of singing songs.
- The sound produced by a bird (rarely other creatures)
- A tune; non-lyrical music.
- A quip, declaration, or remark.
- A poem; a written work in verse.
Declension
Derived terms
- songly
Descendants
- English: song
- Scots: song, sang
References
- “s??ng, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-24.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse s?ngr. Akin to English song.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s???/
Noun
song m (definite singular songen, indefinite plural songar, definite plural songane)
- song
Derived terms
Verb
song
- past tense of syngja, syngje, synga and synge
References
- “song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English song.
Noun
song
- song
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [saw??m??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [?aw??m??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [?aw??m??] ~ [saw??m??]
- Homophone: xong
Etymology 1
Noun
(classifier cây) song • (????, ????, ????)
- big rattan
Etymology 2
Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“window”).
Noun
song
- (archaic, literary) window
- Short for ch?n song (“upright post in a paling or railing”).
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“double; pair”).
Prefix
song
- bi-; double; parallel
Derived terms
Adverb
song
- (formal) however
- (formal) but
Derived terms
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *so???, from Middle Chinese ? (MC ????, “two”). Cognate with Thai ??? (s???ng), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (s?ng), Lü ??? (?oang), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (s?ang), Tai Nüa ???? (sóang), Ahom ???????????????? (song), Bouyei soongl.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?o????/
- Tone numbers: song1
- Hyphenation: song
Numeral
song (Sawndip forms ? or ? or ?, old orthography so?)
- two
- 2008, Rint Sybesma, Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics, in From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics (edited by Pieter Muysken), page 246:
- De fwngz ndeu yaeuj ndaej song doengj raemx bae!
- 3s hand one raise ACQ two bucket water PRT
- S/he can lift two buckets of water with one hand!
- 2008, Rint Sybesma, Zhuang: A Tai language with some Sinitic characteristics, in From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics (edited by Pieter Muysken), page 246:
Usage notes
Used with ndeu rather than it.
Synonyms
- ngeih
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