fingering

English

Noun

fingering (plural fingerings)

1. (music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
   • 1813 CE: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

     She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.

2. (music, countable) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.

   That chord has two fingerings.

3. (uncountable) The act of using the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus.
4. A thick woollen yarn for stockings.

Translations

playing a musical instrument

• Catalan: digitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)

• Finnish: sormitus (fi)
• French: doigté (fr) m
• Hungarian: ujjrend
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: manualità f, gestualità
• Maori: pokipoki
• Portuguese: dedilhamento m, dedilhação (pt) f, digitação (pt) f, dedilhado (pt) m
• Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)
• Turkish: tıngırdatma (tr) (of stringed instruments)

specific method

• Catalan: digitació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)

• Czech: prstoklad m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: sormitus (fi)
• Hebrew: אִצְבּוּעַ m (itzbúa')
• Portuguese: digitação (pt) f
• Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)

sexual act

• Catalan: inserció del dit f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指交 (zhǐjiāo)

• Czech: prstění (cs) n
• Finnish: sormiseksi, sormitus (fi), sormetus (fi)
• French: doigtage m
• Italian: ditalino (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 手マン (te-man)
• Persian: انگل کردن (angol kardan)
• Polish: palcówka (pl) f
• Russian: фи́нгеринг (ru) m (fíngering)
• Spanish: (los dedos analmente (anal)) insertar (es), (los dedos vaginalmente (vagina)) insertar (es)
• Turkish: parmaklama (tr)

See also

• fingerer

Verb

fingering

1. present participle of finger