handling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ, -ændlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: hand‧ling

Etymology 1

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:

     the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister of the field this day

   • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives

     […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.

2. (obsolete) The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:

     In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.

3. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
   • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews:

     A miniature […] remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.

4. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Derived terms

• double-handling
• materials handling
• puck-handling
• puck handling
• request-handling
• shipping and handling

 

Related terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

touching, controlling, managing with the hands

• Bulgarian: манипулиране n (manipulirane)
• Catalan: manipulació (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處理／处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ)

• Finnish: käsittely (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f, maniement (fr) m
• German: Bedienung (de) f, Handhabung (de) f, Umgang (de) m, Handling (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: χειρισμός m (kheirismós)

• Hungarian: kézbevétel (hu), kézben tartás, kézbe fogás, kezelés (hu), bánásmód (hu)
• Irish: glacadh m
• Italian: gestione (it) f, manipolazione (it) f
• Japanese: 取り扱い (ja) (とりあつかい, toriatsukai)
• Latin: tractātiō f
• Malayalam: കൈകാര്യം (ml) (kaikāryaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndtering m or f, handtering m or f

  Nynorsk: handtering f

• Persian: دستزدن (fa), کیاستن (fa)
• Portuguese: manuseio (pt) m, manejo (pt) m
• Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka) (processing), манипули́рование (ru) n (manipulírovanije) (manipulation), обслу́живание (ru) n (obslúživanije) (servicing), обхожде́ние (ru) n (obxoždénije) (treatment), обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije) (treatment)
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f, manejo (es) m
• Swedish: hantering (sv)
• Urhobo: ẹruote

criminal offence

• Esperanto: ricelo
• Finnish: varastetun tavaran kauppa
• German: Hehlerei (de) f
• Italian: ricettazione (it) f
• Polish: paserstwo (pl) n
• Spanish: alcahuetería (es) f, receptación f, encubrimiento (es) m
• Swedish: häleri (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Portuguese: manejo (pt) m

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle and gerund of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

1. action, act

Declension

Declension of handling

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	handling	handlingen	handlinger	handlingerne
genitive	handlings	handlingens	handlingers	handlingernes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

Noun

handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• valdshandling

References

• “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English handling.

Noun

handling n (uncountable)

1. baggage handling in the airport

Declension

declension of handling (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) handling	handlingul
genitive/dative	(unui) handling	handlingului
vocative	handlingule

References

• handling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

handla +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

handling c

1. an act, a deed
2. an act, a document
3. action
4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Declension of handling
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	handling	handlingen	handlingar	handlingarna
Genitive	handlings	handlingens	handlingars	handlingarnas

Derived terms

• terrorhandling