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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan 'to sing, recite', from Proto-Germanic *singwanan (compare West Frisian sjonge, Dutch zingen, German singen, Swedish sjunga), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷh- (compare Welsh deongl 'to explain', Ancient Greek omphē 'voice, oracle', Prakrit saṃghai 'to say, teach').
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sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung)
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- "I really want to sing in the school choir." said Vera.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
- (slang) To confess under interrogation.
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Terms derived from the verb "sing"
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[edit] Translations
to produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice
- Afrikaans: sing (af)
- Albanian: këndoj (sq)
- Arabic: غنى (ar) (ġánnā) imperfect: يغني (ar) (yuġánnī)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܙܡܪ (zmer)
- Armenian: երգել (hy) (yergel)
- Aromanian: cãntu
- Azeri: oxumaq (az)
- Basque: abestu (eu), kantatu (eu)
- Belarusian: спяваць (be) (spjavác’) impf., заспяваць (be) (zaspjavác’) pf.
- Bengali: গাওয়া (bn) (gaoya)
- Bulgarian: пея (bg) (péja)
- Burmese: သီချင်းဆို (thăchin: hso) (literally, "say a song")
- Catalan: cantar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 唱歌 (zh) (chànggē), 唱 (zh) (chàng), 鳴 (zh), 鸣 (zh) (míng) (of birds)
- Czech: zpívat (cs)
- Dalmatian: cantur
- Danish: synge (da)
- Dutch: zingen (nl)
- Esperanto: kanti (eo)
- Estonian: laulma (et)
- Filipino: kanta
- Finnish: laulaa (fi)
- French: chanter (fr)
- Friulian: cjantâ
- Galician: cantar (gl)
- Georgian: მღერიან (ka) (mḡerian)
- German: singen (de)
- Greek: τραγουδάω (el) (tragoudáo), τραγουδώ (el) (tragoudó), άδω (el) (ádo), ψέλνω (el) (psélno) (a hymn).
- Ancient: ᾄδω (adō)
- Hebrew: שר (he) (shar)
- Hindi: गाना (hi) (gānā)
- Hungarian: énekel (hu)
- Icelandic: syngja (is)
- Ido: kantar
- Indonesian: bernyanyi / menyanyi (of a person), berkicau (of a bird)
- Interlingua: cantar (ia)
- Irish: can (ga)
- Istro-Romanian: cântå
- Italian: cantare (it)
- Japanese: 歌う (ja) (うたう, utau), 鳴く (ja) (なく, naku) (of birds)
- Kashubian: spiéwac (csb)
- Kazakh: өлең айту (kk) (öleñ aytw), өлеңдету (kk) (öleñdetw)
- Khmer: ច្រៀង (km) (jrieng)
- Korean: 노래하다 (ko) (noraehada)
- Kurdish: گۆرانی وتن
- Lao: ຮ້ອງເພງ (lo) (hɔ̑ːŋ)
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- Latin: cano (la), canto (la)
- Latvian: dziedāt (lv)
- Lithuanian: dainuoti (lt)
- Lojban: sanga
- Lower Sorbian: spiwaś
- Luxembourgish: sangen (lb)
- Macedonian: пее (mk) (pée)
- Malay: menyanyi (ms)
- Maltese: kanta (mt)
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫnt
- Mongolian: дуу дуулах (mn) (duu duulakh), магтан дуулах (mn) (magtan duulakh)
- Nahuatl: cuīca (nah)
- Norwegian: synge (no)
- Novial: kanta
- Occitan: cantar (oc)
- Old English: singan (ang)
- Old Provençal: chantar
- Persian: سرودن (fa) (sorudan), آواز خواندن (fa) (âvâz xândan), خواندن (fa) (xândan)
- Polish: śpiewać (pl) impf., zaśpiewać (pl) pf.
- Portuguese: cantar (pt)
- Romanian: cânta (ro)
- Romansch: chantar (rm)
- Russian: петь (ru) (pet’) impf., спеть (ru) (spet’) pf.
- Scottish Gaelic: seinn, gabh òran, (bird) ceileir (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: певати (sh), пјевати (sh)
- Roman: pevati (sh), pjevati (sh)
- Sicilian: cantari (scn)
- Sinhalese: ගයනවා (si) (gayanavā)
- Slovak: spievať (sk)
- Slovene: peti (sl), zapeti (sl)
- Sotho: bina (st)
- Spanish: cantar (es)
- Swahili: imba (sw)
- Swedish: sjunga (sv)
- Tamil: பாடு (ta) (pāṭu)
- Tatar: җырларга (tt) (cırlarğa)
- Telugu: పాడు (te) (paaDu)
- Thai: ขับร้อง (th) (kàp róng)
- Tok Pisin: singsing
- Turkish: şarkı söylemek (tr)
- Ukrainian: співати (uk) (spiváty) impf., заспівати (uk) (заspiváty) pf.
- Upper Sorbian: spěwać
- Urdu: گانا (ur) (gānā)
- Vietnamese: hát (vi)
- Welsh: canu (cy)
- Yiddish: זינגען (yi) (zingen)
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confess under interrogation
sing (plural sings)
- A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.
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