handling

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

Noun

handling (plural handlings)

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See handle
   • The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day - Edmund Spenser
2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch - Fairholt
3. A criminal offence, the trade with stolen goods.

Translations

touching, controlling, managing with the hands

• Catalan: manipulació (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處理 (cmn), 处理 (cmn) (chǔlǐ)

• Finnish: käsittely (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f, maniement (fr) m
• German: Bedienung (de) f, Handhabung (de) f, Umgang (de) m, Handling (de) n

• Irish: glacadh (ga) m
• Japanese: 取り扱い (ja) (とりあつかい, toriatsukai)
• Russian: обработка (ru) (obrabо́tka) f  (processing), манипулирование (ru) (manipulírovanije) n  (manipulation), обслуживание (ru) (obslúživanije) n  (servicing), обхождение (ru) (obxoždénije) n  (treatment), обращение (ru) (obraščénije) n  (treatment)
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f, manejo (es) m

criminal offence

• Finnish: varastetun tavaran kauppa (fi)
• German: Hehlerei (de) f

• Polish: paserstwo (pl) n
• Spanish: alcahuetería (es) f, receptación (es) f, encubrimiento (es) m

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• Portuguese: manejo m

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. Present participle of handle.

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Norwegian

Etymology

From the verb handle

Noun

handling

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Inflection

    Inflection of handling

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	handling	handlingen	handlinger	handlingene
Bokmål f	handling	handlinga	handlinger	handlingene
Nynorsk f	handling	handlinga [handlingi]	handlingar	handlingane

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Swedish

Etymology

From the verb handla

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Noun

handling c

1. an act, a deed
2. an act, a document
3. action
4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Declension of handling

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	handling	handlingen	handlingar	handlingarna
genitive	handlings	handlingens	handlingars	handlingarnas