cúng

See also: cung, cùng, cũng, and cứng

Irish

Alternative forms

• cumhang (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Old Irish cumung, from Proto-Celtic *komingus (compare Welsh cyfyng), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”) + *h₂énǵʰus (“tight, painfully constricted”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːŋ/

Adjective

cúng (genitive singular masculine cúng, genitive singular feminine cúinge, plural cúnga, comparative cúinge)

1. narrow

Declension

Declension of cúng

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	cúng	chúng	cúnga; chúnga²
Vocative	chúng		cúnga
Genitive		cúinge	cúnga	cúng
Dative	cúng; chúng¹	chúng	cúnga; chúnga²
Comparative	níos cúinge
Superlative	is cúinge

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

• caol

Noun

cúng m (genitive singular cúing, nominative plural cúing)

1. narrow, narrow part

Declension

Declension of cúng

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cúng cúing Vocative a chúing a chúnga Genitive cúing cúng Dative cúng cúing

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cúng na cúing Genitive an chúing na gcúng Dative leis an gcúng don chúng leis na cúing

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cúng	chúng	gcúng
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cúng”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cumung”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 供.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˦˥]

Verb

cúng

1. (religious) to give offerings, to enshrine, to worship

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cúng bái
• cúng cơm
• thờ cúng