breathing

English

Etymology

From breathe +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiːðɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiðɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -iːðɪŋ
• Hyphenation: breath‧ing

Noun

breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)

1. gerund of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this.
   • 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal:

     […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

2. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
3. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church? / CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. / LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind. / DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

4. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

   the breathings of the Holy Spirit

5. Aspiration; secret prayer.
   • 1683 June 3 (Gregorian calendar), John Tillotson, “Sermon XXIV. Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Whichcot, D.D. May 24, 1683.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC, page 248:

     Let us then begin Heaven here, in the Frame and Temper of our Minds, in our heavenly Affections and Converſation; in a due Prepation for, and in earneſt Deſires and Breathings after that bleſſed State vvhich vve firmly believe and aſſuredly hope to be one day poſſeſſed of: […]

Derived terms

• abdominodiaphragmatic breathing
• accessory breathing
• base-pair breathing
• belly breathing
• box breathing
• circular breathing
• deep breathing
• Kussmaul breathing
• labored breathing
• low breathing
• rough breathing
• smooth breathing
• square breathing
• stagger breathing

 

Translations

act of respiration

• Arabic: تَنَفُس‎ m (tanafus), نَفَس‎ (ar) m (nafas)

  Egyptian Arabic: تنفس‎ m (tanafus)

• Armenian: շնչառություն (hy) (šnčʿaṙutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: tənəffüs, nəfəs (az)
• Belarusian: дыха́нне n (dyxánnje)
• Bulgarian: дишане (bg) n (dišane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸 (zh) (hūxī)

• Czech: dýchání (cs) n
• Danish: vejrtrækning (da) c, åndedræt (da) n
• Dutch: ademhaling (nl) f
• Esperanto: spirado
• Estonian: hingamine
• Finnish: hengitys (fi); henkäys (fi) (single instance)
• French: respiration (fr) f
• Georgian: სუნთქვა (suntkva)
• German: Atmen (de) n, Atmung (de) f
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
• Hungarian: légzés (hu), lélegzés (hu)
• Icelandic: öndun (is) f
• Italian: respirazione (it) f
• Japanese: 呼吸 (ja) (こきゅう, kokyū)
• Kazakh: дем алу (dem alu), дем (kk) (dem), тыныс алу (tynys alu)
• Khmer: ដង្ហើម (km) (dɑnghaəm)
• Korean: 호흡(呼吸) (ko) (hoheup)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: henasedan f

• Kyrgyz: дем алуу (ky) (dem aluu), дем тартуу (ky) (dem tartuu)
• Macedonian: дишење n (dišenje)
• Malayalam: ശ്വസനം (ml) (śvasanaṁ)
• Old English: ǣþm m
• Persian: تنفس‎ (fa) (tanaffos), نفس‎ (fa) (nafas)
• Polish: oddychanie (pl) n, oddech (pl) m
• Portuguese: respiração (pt) f
• Romanian: respirație (ro) f
• Russian: дыха́ние (ru) n (dyxánije)
• Rusyn: дыханя n (dŷxanja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: да̏х m, ди́са̄ње n

  Roman: dȁh (sh) m, dísānje (sh) n

• Slovak: dýchanie n
• Slovene: dihanje n
• Spanish: respiración (es) f
• Swedish: andning (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghinga
• Tajik: нафаскашӣ (nafaskašī), нафас (nafas), нафасгирӣ (nafasgirī), дам (dam)
• Thai: การหายใจ (th) (gaan-hǎai-jai)
• Ukrainian: диха́ння n (dyxánnja)
• Uzbek: nafas (uz), dam (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự hô hấp (vi)

Verb

breathing

1. present participle and gerund of breathe

Further reading

• breathing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebathing