ming

See also: Ming, mīng, míng, mǐng, mìng, and Míng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪŋ/

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mingen, mengen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *mangijaną (“to mix, knead”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.

Alternative forms

• minge, meng

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged or meint or ment)

1. (now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
   • 1562, William Turner, Baths:

     I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.

2. (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].

3. (UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.

Noun

ming (plural mings)

1. Mixture.

Etymology 2

Backformation from minging.

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

1. (British, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
2. (British, slang) To be foul-smelling.

Related terms

• minger
• minging

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian (“to bring to mind, have in mind”), from myne (“mind”), from ġemunan (“to remember”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *munaną (“to think”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ġemyndgian (“to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment”). More at mind.

Alternative forms

• minge

Verb

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

1. (transitive) To speak of; mention; tell; relate.
2. (intransitive) To speak; tell; talk; discourse.

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Mandarin

Romanization

ming

1. Nonstandard spelling of mīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of míng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of mìng.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Scots

Noun

ming (plural mings)

1. smell

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Uzbek

Uzbek cardinal numbers

	1000
Cardinal : ming     Ordinal : minginchi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miŋ/

Numeral

ming

1. thousand