Song

See also: Appendix:Variations of "song"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 宋 (Sòng).

Alternative forms

• Sung (Wade–Giles)
• (Chinese surname): Soong

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͝ong

Proper noun

Song

1. (historical) A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
   • 2017 August 29, Sabine Peschel (kbm), “What the Chinese think of German food”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 August 2017, Lifestyle‎^[3]:

     Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal.

   • 2017 October 3, “Bowl sells for Chinese porcelain record $37.7 million: Sotheby's”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 03 October 2017, Live news‎^[5]:

     A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said.
     The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.

   • 2025, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Stars, Near & Far”, in Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century (Science / Astronomy), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:

     The brightest supernova in your Milky Way galaxy to be visible from Earth was seen and recorded by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty on the 4th of July in A.D. 1054.

2. (historical) A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
3. (historical) The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
4. A surname from Chinese.
5. A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.

Synonyms

• (Chinese rivers): Songjiang, Song Jiang

Derived terms

• Northern Song
• Southern Song

Translations

Chinese Dynasty & Era

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 宋朝 (sung³ ciu⁴)

  Mandarin: 宋朝 (zh) (Sòng Cháo)

• Japanese: 宋朝 (ja) (そうちょう, Sōchō)
• Lithuanian: Sungai m pl
• Tamil: சொங் (coṅ)
• Vietnamese: nhà Tống

Chinese Kingdom

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宋 (zh) (Sòng), 宋朝 (zh) (Sòng Cháo)

• Tamil: சொங் (coṅ)
• Vietnamese: Tống

Chinese Surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宋 (zh) (Sòng), 松 (zh) (Sōng), 鬆 / 松 (zh) (Sōng)

• Tamil: சொங் (coṅ)
• Vietnamese: Tống

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Song

1. A river in Papua New Guinea.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Song

1. A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.

Etymology 4

Derived from Khmer សុង (song).

Proper noun

Song (plural Songs)

1. A surname from Khmer.

Etymology 5

Derived from Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so͞oʹu̇ng

Proper noun

Song

1. A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.

Anagrams

• NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, gons, nogs, snog

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English song. Doublet of inherited Sang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔŋ/
• IPA^(key): /zɔŋ/ (some speakers; chiefly dated)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Song m (strong, genitive Songs, plural Songs)

1. (colloquial) a song of modern popular music

Declension

Declension of Song [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Song	die	Songs
genitive	eines	des	Songs	der	Songs
dative	einem	dem	Song	den	Songs
accusative	einen	den	Song	die	Songs

Hyponyms

• Instrumentalsong

See also

• Lied
• Musikstück, Stück

Further reading

• “Song” in Duden online
• “Song” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache