ting

See also tīng, tíng, tǐng, and tìng

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

onomatopoeia

Noun

ting (plural tings)

1. The sound of small metallic bell

Translations

The sound of small metallic bell

• Finnish: kilahdus, helähdys

Verb

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)

1. To make a ting sound

   When the food was ready, the bell tinged

Translations

To make a ting sound

• Finnish: kilahtaa (fi), helähtää (fi)

See also

• ding
• ding dong
• tintinnabulation

Etymology 2

Chinese: 鼎, pinyin: dǐng. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

ting (plural tings)

1. ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
2. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, or business”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with modern Icelandic þing (of the same meaning), and fellow Scandinavian languages Swedish and Norwegian ting, where the word's meaning has broadened to the sense of thing; any individual object (compare Icelandic hlutur). Also cognate with English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

Pronunciation

• [tˢeŋˀ]

Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; an individual object

Derived terms

• alting
• ingenting

Inflection

    Inflection of ting

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	ting	tingen	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingens	tings	tingenes

Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; a judicial or legislative assembly

Derived terms

• Folketinget

Inflection

    Inflection of ting

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	ting	tinget	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingets	tings	tingenes

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Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, or business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

1. parliament
2. thing

Declension

n3	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ting	tingið	ting	tingini
Accusative	ting	tingið	ting	tingini
Dative	tingi	tinginum	tingum	tingunum
Genitive	tings	tingsins	tinga	tinganna

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Mandarin

Romanization

ting

1. Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tìng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English thing.

Noun

ting

1. thing

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, or business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ting m

1. thing

Noun

ting n

1. court, assembly

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, or business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

ting n

1. a thing, an individual object
2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

Declension

Declension of ting

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tinget	ting	tingen
genitive	tings	tingets	tings	tingens

Related terms

object

• allting
• någonting
• ingenting
• tingest
• tinglig

assembly

allting folketing lagting landsting storting tingsbord tingsdomare tingsfiskal tingsfrid

tingshus tingslag tingsmerit tingsmeriterad tingsmeritering tingsnotarie tingsplats tingspredikan

tingsrätt tingssal tingsställe tingstjänstgöring

Synonyms

• sak; a thing, individual object

See also

• tinga

References

• ting in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)