sing
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sing"
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SINGCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sengʷʰ-#SINGFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SINGCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SING singen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SINGCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SING singan (“to sing”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SING *singwan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SINGCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SING *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SING *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sjunge (“to sing”), West Frisian sjonge (“to sing”), Dutch zingen (“to sing”), German Low German singen (“to sing”), German singen (“to sing”), Danish synge (“to sing”), Swedish sjunga (“to sing”), Icelandic syngja (“to sing”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sĭng; IPA(key): /sɪŋ/Category:English 1-syllable words#SINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SING
- (Northern England, Midlands, without the NG-coalescence) IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋɡ/Category:English 1-syllable words#SINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SING
- Rhymes: -ɪŋCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪŋ#SINGCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪŋ/1 syllable#SING
- Homophones: Sing, SinghCategory:English terms with homophones#SING
Verb
sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang or sung, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)Category:English lemmas#SINGCategory:English verbs#SINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- "I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.Category:English terms with usage examples#SING
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:3:
- And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SING) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- sing a lullabyCategory:English terms with usage examples#SING
- 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SING) To soothe with singing.
- to sing somebody to sleepCategory:English terms with usage examples#SING
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SINGCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) Of birds, to vocalise:
- (ornithologyCategory:en:Ornithology#SING) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- (literaryCategory:English literary terms#SING) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 36:
- I do but sing because I must,Category:English terms with quotations#SING
And pipe but as the linnets sing:
And unto one her note is gay,
For now her little ones have ranged;
And unto one her note is changed,
Because her brood is stol’n away.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 68:
- The evening was still very warm, and the birds in the woods were singing in praise of spring.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING, slangCategory:English slang#SING) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) To make a small, shrill sound.
- The air sings in passing through a crevice.Category:English terms with usage examples#SING
- a singing kettleCategory:English terms with usage examples#SING
- 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXII”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- O'er his head the flying spear / Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SINGCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry; to praise.
- 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 57:
- Who would not ſing for Lycidas? he knew / Himſelf to ſing, and build the lofty rhyme.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, book II (Pleasure), page 468:
- Again I bid the mournful Goddeſs write / The fond Purſuit of fugitive Delight: / Bid her exalt her melancholy Wing, / And rais'd from Earth, and ſav'd from Paſſion, ſing / Of human Hope by croſs Event deſtroyed, / Of uſeleſs Wealth, and Greatneſs unenjoy'd, […]Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- 1983 January 26, Cathy Mauk, “Chocolate desserts to melt your Valentine’s heart”, in The Forum, volume 105, number 71, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-4, column 1:
- If chocolate is America’s most magnificent culinary obsession — and it seems to be, what with best-selling books either admitting the chocolatoholic tendencies of the author or singing the joys of the stuff — then Valentine’s Day has got to be the chocolate lover’s holiday.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SING) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- The sauce really makes this lamb sing.Category:English terms with usage examples#SING
- 2022 July 7, Sonia Fernandez, “‘Out of the Starting Gate’”, in The Current, University of California, Santa Barbara, archived from the original on 7 July 2022:
- [Alissa Monte said] “This result was all about demonstrating that LZ [the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment] works, and it does! As we take more data and mature our analyses, we get to make LZ sing. […] ”Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (ergativeCategory:English ergative verbs#SING) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#SING) In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse. [from 19th c.]
- 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 212:
- ‘He says the Walcott Inlet men have sung him, and this tribe will meet the Walcott men and fight when the big walk-about comes, after the peanut season.’Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 343:
- ‘We sung them two real good. We never give Louis Beck no place to find rest from his torment.’Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- (slangCategory:English slang#SING, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#SING) To yell or shout.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
- I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
Conjugation
| infinitive | (to) sing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1st-person singular | sing | sang, sung1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd-person singular | sing, singest† | sang, sung1, sangest†, sungest† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd-person singular | sings, singeth† | sang, sung1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| plural | sing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| subjunctive | sing | sang, sung1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| imperative | sing | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| participles | singing | sung, sungen† | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out
Derived terms
- all-singing all-dancing
- all-singing-and-dancing
- besing
- countersing
- foresing
- forsing
- go sing
- mis-sing
- New Guinea singing dog
- outsing
- oversing
- overtone singing
- part singing
- resing
- scat singing
- sight sing
- singability
- singable
- sing a different tune
- singalong
- sing along, sing-along
- singback
- singer
- sing for one's supper
- sing from the same hymnal
- sing from the same hymnbook
- sing from the same hymn sheet
- singing
- singing chambermaid
- singing cowboy
- singing dog
- singing fish
- singing flame
- singing girl
- singing ground
- singing hinny
- singing sand
- singing saw
- singing soprano
- singing telegram
- singing voice
- sing Kumbaya
- sing like a bird
- sing like a canary
- sing off the same hymn sheet
- sing out
- sing small
- singsong
- sing soprano
- singspiration
- singster
- sing the praises
- sing the praises of
- sing the same tune
- sing up
- throat singing
- undersing
- unsing
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Translations
to produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice
to express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization
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to soothe with singing
slang: to confess under interrogation
to make a small, shrill sound
to relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry
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to display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent
to be capable of being sung
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sing (plural sings)Category:English lemmas#SINGCategory:English nouns#SINGCategory:English countable nouns#SINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
- The act, or event, of singing songs.
- I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.Category:English terms with usage examples#SING
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 55:
- Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 287:
- 'Ah, yes, Miss Fisher, have you had a nice sing?'Category:English terms with quotations#SING
- Any sound likened to human singing.
- 1921, Gilbert Frankau, The Seeds of Enchantment:
- heard the unmistakable twang of bowstrings against bracers, the sing of a long-bow volley, and made for the doorCategory:English terms with quotations#SING
- a. 1972, Sandy Cunningham, Far Back Down:
- the sing of axe on concreteCategory:English terms with quotations#SING
- 2007, Sam L. Bevard, Through the Back Gate:
- Archie and Clem know gunshots when they hear them and the sing of a bullet as it drills the windshield and exits the back glass of the truck.Category:English terms with quotations#SING
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See also
Anagrams
Category:English strong verbs#SINGCategory:English irregular verbs#SING Category:en:Music#SINGCategory:en:Singing#SINGAfrikaans
Etymology
From DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch#SINGCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch#SING zingen.
Pronunciation
Verb
sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#SINGCategory:Afrikaans verbs#SINGCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
- to sing
Derived terms
- gesonge (verbal adjective)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
singCategory:German non-lemma forms#SINGCategory:German verb forms#SINGCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Hungarian terms borrowed from German#SINGCategory:Hungarian terms derived from German#SING. First attested in 1368.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
sing (plural singek)Category:Hungarian lemmas#SINGCategory:Hungarian nouns#SINGCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
- (archaicCategory:Hungarian terms with archaic senses#SING) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sing | singek |
| accusative | singet | singeket |
| dative | singnek | singeknek |
| instrumental | singgel | singekkel |
| causal-final | singért | singekért |
| translative | singgé | singekké |
| terminative | singig | singekig |
| essive-formal | singként | singekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | singben | singekben |
| superessive | singen | singeken |
| adessive | singnél | singeknél |
| illative | singbe | singekbe |
| sublative | singre | singekre |
| allative | singhez | singekhez |
| elative | singből | singekből |
| delative | singről | singekről |
| ablative | singtől | singektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
singé | singeké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
singéi | singekéi |
Derived terms
References
- ↑ sing in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- sing in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Iu Mien
Etymology
From ChineseCategory:Iu Mien terms borrowed from Chinese#SINGCategory:Iu Mien terms derived from Chinese#SING 聲 (MC syeng).
Noun
singCategory:Iu Mien lemmas#SINGCategory:Iu Mien nouns#SINGCategory:Iu Mien entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
Category:ium:Sound#SINGMaltese
Etymology
Borrowed from SicilianCategory:Maltese terms borrowed from Sicilian#SINGCategory:Maltese terms derived from Sicilian#SING singu.
Pronunciation
Noun
sing m (plural singi or snug)Category:Maltese lemmas#SINGCategory:Maltese nouns#SINGCategory:Maltese masculine nouns#SINGCategory:Maltese entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Maltese masculine nouns#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
singCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#SINGCategory:Old English verb forms#SINGCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
Zou
Etymology 1
From Proto-Kuki-ChinCategory:Zou terms inherited from Proto-Kuki-Chin#SINGCategory:Zou terms derived from Proto-Kuki-Chin#SING *thiiŋ, from Proto-Sino-TibetanCategory:Zou terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#SINGCategory:Zou terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#SING *kjaŋ. Cognates include Burmese ချင်း (hkyang:) and Chinese 薑 / 姜 (jiāng)Category:Chinese terms with redundant transliterations#SING.
Pronunciation
Noun
síngCategory:Zou lemmas#SINGCategory:Zou nouns#SINGCategory:Zou entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
Etymology 2
From Proto-Kuki-ChinCategory:Zou terms inherited from Proto-Kuki-Chin#SINGCategory:Zou terms derived from Proto-Kuki-Chin#SING *thiŋ, from Proto-Sino-TibetanCategory:Zou terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#SINGCategory:Zou terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#SING *siŋ. Cognates include Burmese သစ် (sac) and Chinese 薪 (xīn)Category:Chinese terms with redundant transliterations#SING.
Pronunciation
Noun
síngCategory:Zou lemmas#SINGCategory:Zou nouns#SINGCategory:Zou entries with incorrect language header#SINGCategory:Pages with entries#SINGCategory:Pages with 8 entries#SING
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45
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