dung

See also: Dung, dùng, Dũng, dụng, dưng, dừng, dửng, dựng, đúng, and dūŋ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

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Etymology 1

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

1. (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 129:

     Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3:

     Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496:

     The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.

2. (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Derived terms

terms derived from dung (noun)

• cow dung
• cow-dung
• devil's dung
• dung beetle
• dung fly
• dung fork
• dung funnel
• dungheap
• dung heap
• dunghill
• dung-hunter
• dungy

 

Translations

manure

• Albanian: pleh (sq) m, bajgë (sq) f
• Arabic: رَوْث m (rawṯ)
• Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb)
• Aromanian: baligă f
• Assamese: গোবৰ (gübor), গু (gu)
• Azerbaijani: peyin (az), gübrə (az)
• Belarusian: гной m (hnoj), кал (kal)
• Bikol Central: udo (bcl)
• Bulgarian: оборски тор m (oborski tor), тор m (tor)
• Burmese: ချေး (hkye:), မြေဩဇာ (my) (mreau:ja)
• Catalan: adob (ca) m, fem (ca) m, femta (ca) f
• Chamicuro: tuki
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肥 (zh) (féi), 肥料 (zh) (féiliào), 糞肥／粪肥 (zh) (fènféi), 糞／粪 (zh) (fèn), 屎 (zh)

• Czech: hnůj (cs) m, mrva (cs) f, trus (cs) m
• Danish: gødning (da) c, møg
• Dutch: mest (nl) m
• Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: sterko
• Estonian: sõnnik
• Finnish: lanta (fi), sonta (fi)
• French: bouse (fr) f, fumier (fr) m, purin (fr) m
• Galician: esterco (gl) m, bosta (gl) f, cuito m, estrume (gl) m, gasto m, iboño m
• Gallo: fien m
• Georgian: ნეხვი (nexvi), სკორე (sḳore)
• German: Dünger (de) m, Mist (de) m
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰 f (smarna), 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 m (maihstus)
• Greek: κόπρος (el) f (kópros)

  Ancient: κόπρος f (kópros), ὄνθος f (ónthos), σπέλεθος m (spélethos)

• Gujarati: પોદળો m (podaḷo)
• Haitian Creole: fimye
• Hebrew: זֶבֶל (he) m (zével)
• Higaonon: ta-i
• Hindi: गोबर (hi) m (gobar), मल (hi) m (mal), लीद (hi) f (līd), विष्ठा (hi) f (viṣṭhā), गू (hi) m (gū), गूह (hi) m (gūh), गुह (hi) m (guh), खाद (hi) (khād), उपला (hi) m (uplā)
• Hungarian: trágya (hu)
• Icelandic: mykja f
• Irish: aoileach m
• Italian: escremento (it) f, feci (it) f, sterco (it) m, letame (it) m, fimo (it) m, ordura (it) f
• Japanese: 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe), 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō)
• Kazakh: көң (köñ)
• Khmer: ជីអាចម៍សត្វ (cii ʔac sat)
• Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), 똥거름 (ko) (ttonggeoreum), 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕیخ (rîx), تەرس (ters), پشکڵ (pişkill)

  Northern Kurdish: rîx (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: көң (köŋ), кык (kık), тезек (ky) (tezek)
• Lao: ຂີ້ (lo) (khī), ມູນ (mūn)
• Latin: stercus (la) n, fimum (la) m
• Latvian: mēsli m pl
• Lithuanian: mėšlas m pl
• Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
• Macedonian: измет m (izmet)
• Malayalam: ചാണകം (ml) (cāṇakaṁ)
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠨ (fajan)
• Manx: eoylley
• Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko
• Middle English: donge
• Mongolian: аргал (mn) (argal), баас (mn) (baas)
• Navajo: chąąʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: møkk (no) m or f, gjødsel

• Ojibwe: moo
• Ottoman Turkish: فشقی (fışkı), تزك (tezek)
• Persian: سرگین (fa) (sergin), کود (fa) (kud)
• Pitjantjatjara: kuna
• Plautdietsch: Mest n
• Polish: gnój (pl) m, nawóz (pl) m, kał (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrume (pt), esterco (pt)
• Romanian: bălegar (ro) m, balegă (ro) f
• Russian: наво́з (ru) m (navóz), кал (ru) m (kal), помёт (ru) m (pomjót), экскреме́нты (ru) m pl (ekskreménty) (excrement)
• Scottish Gaelic: buachar m, todhar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бале́га f, гно̑ј m, гно̏јӣво n

  Roman: baléga (sh) f, gnȏj (sh) m, gnȍjīvo (sh) n

• Sicilian: fumèri
• Sidamo: obba
• Slovak: hnoj (sk) m
• Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
• Somali: xaar-walwaal (so)
• Spanish: excremento (es) m, estiércol (es) m
• Swedish: dynga (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠙꠞ (gufor)
• Tajik: пору (poru), саргин (sargin)
• Telugu: ముటము (te) (muṭamu)
• Thai: มูล (th) (muun), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
• Tocharian B: weṃts, kekärtkor
• Tongan: táë
• Turkish: dışkı (tr), tezek (tr), gübre (tr)
• Turkmen: tezek, gyýk, dökün
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: гній m (hnij), кал m (kal), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty)
• Uzbek: goʻng (uz), oʻgʻit (uz)
• Vietnamese: phân (vi), phân chuồng (vi)
• Walloon: ansene (wa) f
• Warlpiri: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: tail (cy) m
• West Frisian: dong
• Zhuang: haex
• Zou: eeh

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground

   • 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections:

     She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.

2. (transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
3. (intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
   • 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎^[1], The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:

     […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]

Synonyms

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate

Translations

to fertilize with dung

• Bulgarian: торя (bg) (torja)
• Finnish: lannoittaa (fi)
• Galician: estercar (gl)
• German: düngen (de)
• Greek: κοπρίζω (el) (koprízo), λιπαίνω (el) (lipaíno)
• Italian: concimare (it)
• Ottoman Turkish: فشقیلامق (fışkılamak)
• Russian: удобрять (ru) (udobrjatʹ), унавоживать (ru) (unavoživatʹ)

Etymology 2

See ding

Verb

dung

1. (obsolete) past participle of ding

Etymology 3

unknown

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

1. (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.

Etymology 4

Onomatopeia

Interjection

dung

1. Alternative spelling of dong (“sound of a bell”)

Anagrams

• UNDG

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

dung

1. Alternative form of donge (“dung”)

Etymology 2

Noun

dung

1. Alternative form of donge (“Hell”)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dunɡ/, [duŋɡ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”).

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

dung f (nominative plural dyng)

1. dungeon, prison

Declension

Declension of dung (strong consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	dung	dyng
accusative	dung	dyng
genitive	dyng, dunge	dunga
dative	dyng	dungum

Synonyms

• dimhūs

Descendants

• Middle English: donge, dung, dunge
• Middle English: dongeoun (partly)
  • English: dungeon, donjon
  • Scots: dungeon

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *dungō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

dung f

1. dung, manure

Declension

Declension of dung (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	dung	dunga, dunge
accusative	dunge	dunga, dunge
genitive	dunge	dunga
dative	dunge	dungum

Descendants

• Middle English: donge, dong, donke, doung, dounge, dung, dunge
  • English: dung
  • Scots: dung

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dung (“cellar”).

Noun

dung m or f

1. weaving, weavingroom

Descendants

• Middle Low German: dunk, dunc

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (Northern Vietnam) dong

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 容 (“to tolerate; facial traits”). Also from Chinese 婦容／妇容 (phụ dung, “wifely look”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Homophones: Dung, giun, vun, vung

Verb

dung

1. (archaic or literary) to tolerate

   trời không dung, đất không tha

   the sky doesn't tolerate it, the earth doesn't forgive it

Noun

dung

1. (Confucianism) beauty, one of the tứ đức (“four virtues”) that women are supposed to have

See also

Derived terms

• bao dung (“generous”)
• dung mạo
• dung nạp (“to accept, admit”)
• dung nhan (“beautiful feminine face”)
• dung sai (“tolerance”)
• dung tha (“forgive”)
• dung thân (“to take refuge”)
• hình dung
• khoan dung (“tolerant”)