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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)

1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
2. (by extension) Any musical composition.
3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
   • The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.

4. The act or art of singing.
5. 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.
6. (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.
7. 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; […].

8. 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

1. 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

1. rhinoceros beetle

Chuukese

Adjective

song

1. angry

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English song. Doublet of zang.

Pronunciation

Noun

song m (plural songs)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. village, hamlet
2. classifier for villages

Derived terms

• songjinma
• songsal

Mandarin

Romanization

song

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?ng.
3. 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)

1. A song (lyrical music):
   1. Religious or spiritual chanting or hymns.
   2. A exposition or story, especially a sung one.
   3. A song supposed to have occult or magical power.
2. The practice or an instance of singing songs.
3. The sound produced by a bird (rarely other creatures)
4. A tune; non-lyrical music.
5. A quip, declaration, or remark.
6. 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)

1. song

Derived terms

Verb

song

1. past tense of syngja, syngje, synga and synge

References

• “song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English song.

Noun

song

1. 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 • (????, ????, ????)

1. big rattan

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“window”).

Noun

song

1. (archaic, literary) window
2. Short for ch?n song (“upright post in a paling or railing”).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“double; pair”).

Prefix

song

1. bi-; double; parallel

Derived terms

Adverb

song

1. (formal) however
2. (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?)

1. 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!

Usage notes

Used with ndeu rather than it.

Synonyms

• ngeih

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?e??n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English str?on, ?estr?on (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streun? (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English str?nd (“race; stock”), from str?onan, str?nan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

Noun

strain (plural strains)

1. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
2. (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
3. (figuratively) Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

   Synonyms: propensity, proneness

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies

     Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which being propogated, spoil the strain of a nation.

4. (music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

   Synonyms: theme, motive, manner, style

5. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

6. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
7. (obsolete) Treasure.
8. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

Translations

Related terms

• strew

Etymology 2

From Middle English straynen, streinen, streynen, from Old French estreindre (whence French étreindre (“to grip”)), from Latin stringere (“to draw tight together, to tie”).

Verb

strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)

1. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd, and colled tenderly [...].

   • Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.

   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     "Farewell!"—the mother strained her child to her heart again, and again put her from her, to embrace her more closely.

2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.

   to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship

   Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.

3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

   The gale strained the timbers of the ship.

4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.

   Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.

   • They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.

6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.

   to strain the law in order to convict an accused person

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4

     There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.

7. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
8. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.

   water straining through a sandy soil

9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
   • 1641, John Denham, The Sophy

     [He] Still talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forc'd and strained.
10. To urge with importunity; to press.

    to strain a petition or invitation
11. (transitive) hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

Derived terms

• strain every nerve

Translations

Noun

strain (countable and uncountable, plural strains)

1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
   • 1832, Charles Stewart Drewry (A.M.I.C.E.), A memoir on suspension bridges, page 183:

     If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching  ...

   • 2004, Sanjay Shrivastava, Medical Device Materials: Proceedings from the Materials & Processes for Medical Devices Conference 2003, 8-10 September 2003, Anaheim, California, ASM International (?ISBN), page 176:

     Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the influence of strain on the corrosion resistance of passivated Nitinol and stainless steel implant materials. Materials and Methods Nitinol (50.8%at. Ni) wire (NDC, Fremont, CA) and 316L stainless ...

2. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.

3. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
4. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
5. (obsolete) The track of a deer.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:

     When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine, and oftentimes so take them.

Derived terms

• breaking strain

Translations

Related terms

• stress
• strict
• stringent

Etymology 3

From Middle English strenen (“to beget, father, procreate”), from Old English str?onan, str?enan, str?nan (“to beget, generate, gain, acquire”), from Proto-Germanic *striunijan? (“to furnish, decorate, acquire”).

Verb

strain (third-person singular simple present strains, present participle straining, simple past and past participle strained)

1. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

Anagrams

• Sartin, Tarins, Trains, atrins, instar, santir, sartin, starin', tairns, tarins, trains