handling

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
   • Edmund Spenser

     The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master 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. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

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

Derived terms

• request-handling

Related terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

touching, controlling, managing with the hands

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

  Mandarin: 處理／处理 (zh), 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)

• Irish: glacadh m
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• Japanese: 取り扱い (とりあつかい, toriatsukai)
• Latin: tractātiō f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håndtering m or f, handtering m or f

  Nynorsk: handtering f

• 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

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

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Translations to be checked

• Portuguese: manejo (pt) m
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Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle of handle

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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

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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.

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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.

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Swedish

Etymology

From the verb handla

Pronunciation

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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