morning

See also: Morning

English

Etymology

From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen +‎ -ing; equivalent to morn +‎ -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪŋ
• Hyphenation: morn‧ing
• Homophone: mourning (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

morning (plural mornings)

1. The early part of the day, especially from dawn to noon. [from 13th c.]

   I'll see you tomorrow morning.

   I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon.

   • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5

     Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. (figuratively) The early part of anything. [from 16th c.]
3. (obsolete) That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon). [18th–19th c.]
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 101:

     Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, letter, 26 October:

     We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.

4. (chiefly Scotland) The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• (time from dawn to noon): forenoon; yeender (dialect); see also Thesaurus:morning
• (time from midnight to noon): a.m.; forenoon; yeender (dialect)

Coordinate terms

• afternoon; evening; night

Derived terms

• coffee morning
• mid-morning, midmorning
• morning after
• morning-after pill
• morning call
• morning coat
• morning draught
• morning dress
• morning glory
• morning person
• morning prayer
• morning room
• morning sickness
• morning star
• morning suit
• morning tea
• top of the morning

 

Related terms

• morn

 

Translations

part of the day between dawn and midday

• Aari: zémma
• Afrikaans: oggend (af), môre (af)
• Albanian: mëngjes (sq) m
• American Sign Language: FlatB@NearShoulder-PalmBack-FlatB@BaseInForearm-PalmBack FlatB@SideAbdomenhigh-PalmUp-FlatB@BaseInForearm-PalmBack
• Arabic: صَبَاح‎ (ar) m (ṣabāḥ), غُدْوة‎ f (ḡudwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: صباح‎ m (ṣabāḥ), صُبُح‎ m (ṣubuḥ)

  Moroccan Arabic: صباح‎ m (ṣbāḥ)

• Aragonese: maitín
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܲܝܕܵܡܬܵܐ‎ f (qaydamta), ܨܵܦܪܵܐ‎ m (ṣapra)

  Hebrew: צַפְרָא‎ m (ṣap̄rā)

  Syriac: ܨܦܪܐ‎ m (ṣap̄rā)

• Armenian: առավոտ (hy) (aṙavot)
• Aromanian: dimineatsã f, tahina f, sãbai
• Assamese: ৰাতিপুৱা (ratipua), পুৱা (pua), বিহান (bihan), ভোৰ (bhür)
• Asturian: mañana (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: sabah (az), səhər (az)
• Bashkir: иртәнсәк (irtänsäk), иртә (irtä)
• Basque: goiz
• Belarusian: ра́ніца f (ránica)
• Bengali: সকাল (śôkal)
• Bikol Central: aga (bcl)
• Breton: beure (br)
• Bulgarian: су́трин (bg) m (sútrin), у́тро (bg) n (útro), предиобед m (prediobed)
• Burmese: နံနက် (my) (namnak)
• Catalan: matí (ca) m
• Cebuano: buntag
• Central Dusun: doungosuab
• Chechen: ӏуьйре (ʿüjre)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 上晝, 上昼 (soeng⁶ zau³), 朝頭早, 朝头早 (ziu¹ tau⁴ zou²)

  Mandarin: 上午 (zh) (shàngwǔ), 早上 (zh) (zǎoshang), 午前 (zh) (wǔqián)

  Min Nan: 早起 (zh-min-nan) (chá-khí)

• Chukchi: митив (mitiv)
• Chuvash: ир (ir)
• Crimean Tatar: saba
• Czech: ráno (cs) n, dopoledne (cs) n
• Danish: morgen (da) c, formiddag (da)
• Dutch: ochtend (nl) m, morgen (nl) m, voormiddag (nl)
• Egyptian: (dwꜣw)
• Esperanto: mateno (eo)
• Estonian: hommik (et)
• Faroese: morgun (fo) m
• Finnish: aamu (fi), aamupäivä (fi), huomen (fi) (poetic)
• French: matin (fr) m, matinée (fr) f; avant-midi (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: mañá (gl) f
• Georgian: დილა (ka) (dila), ცისკარი (cisḳari) (poetic), აისი (aisi) (poetic), ალიონი (alioni) (poetic)
• German: Morgen (de) m, Vormittag (de) m

  Bavarian: Murg'n m (Austrian), Morgn (Wienerisch)

• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 m (maurgins)
• Greek: πρωί (el) n (proḯ), πρωινό (el) n (proïnó)

  Ancient: πρωΐα f (prōḯa), ἠώς f (ēṓs)

• Guaraní: pyhareve
• Gujarati: સવારે (savāre)
• Hawaiian: kakahiaka
• Hebrew: בֹּקֶר / בוקר‎ (he) m (bóker), שַׁחֲרִית‎ (he) f (shaharít) (talmudic)
• Hindi: सुबह (hi) f (subah), तड़का (hi) m (taṛkā), सवेरा (hi) m (saverā), प्रभात (hi) m (prabhāt), प्रभातकाल m (prabhātkāl), सकाल (hi) m (sakāl), पौ (hi) m (pau), प्रातः (hi) m (prātaḥ), प्रात (hi) m (prāt), प्रातःकाल (hi) m (prātaḥkāl), फजर (hi) m (phajar)
• Hungarian: hajnal (hu) (approx. 3—6, from dawn), reggel (hu) (approx. 6—9), délelőtt (hu) (approx. 9—12)
• Hunsrik: Meuend m
• Icelandic: morgunn (is) m, árdegi (is), fyrirmiðdagur
• Ilocano: bigat
• Indonesian: pagi (id)
• Ingush: ӏуйре (ʿujre)
• Irish: maidin (ga) f
• Istro-Romanian: domaręca
• Italian: mattino (it) m, mattina (it) f
• Japanese: 朝 (ja) (あさ, asa), 午前 (ja) (ごぜん, gozen)
• Javanese: esuk (jv)
• Kannada: ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ (kn) (beḷigge), ಪ್ರಾತಃಕಾಲ (kn) (prātaḥkāla)
• Kapampangan: abak
• Kazakh: таң (kk) (tañ), таңертең (kk) (tañerteñ), ерте (kk) (erte)
• Khmer: បច្ចូស (km) (paccouh)
• Korean: 아침 (ko) (achim)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەیانی‎ (ku) (beyanî)

  Laki: بِێان‎ (biÿan), شەوەکی‎ (şewekî)

  Northern Kurdish: sibe (ku) f

  Southern Kurdish: بِێان‎ (biÿan), شەوەکی‎ (şewekî)

• Kyrgyz: эртең (ky) (erteŋ)
• Ladino:

  Roman: demanyana f

• Lao: ຕອນເຊົ້າ (lo) (tǭn sao), ເຊົ້າ (sao)
• Latin: māne (la) n, mātūtīnum n
• Latvian: rīts (lv) m
• Laz: ჭუმანი (č̣umani)
• Lithuanian: rytas (lt) m
• Livonian: ūomõg
• Low German: Moärgen (Paderbornisch), Muargen (Paderbornisch), Muärn (Paderbornisch: Hövelhof), Muargen (Sauerländisch), Muorgen (Münsterländisch), Moargen (Münsterländisch; less common), Muaren (Osnabrückisch), Mörgen (East Frisian), Morg'n (Dithmarsisch), mòàrgen m (South Westphalian: Hemer; scientific spelling)
• Luxembourgish: Mueren m, Muorgen
• Lü: ᦋᧁᧉ (tsaw²)
• Macedonian: утро n (utro), претпладне n (pretpladne)
• Malagasy: maraina (mg)
• Malay: pagi (ms)
• Malayalam: രാവിലെ (ml) (rāvile), പുലരി (ml) (pulari), പ്രഭാതം (ml) (prabhātaṃ)
• Maltese: għodwa f
• Manx: maddin f, madjin f, moghrey m
• Maore Comorian: asuɓuhi
• Marathi: प्रभात f (prabhāt), सकाळ (sakāḷ)
• Mazanderani: تلاونگ‎ (telavang), سباهی‎ (sebahi)
• Middle English: morwe
• Mongolian: өглөө (mn) (öglöö)
• Mòcheno: vria f
• Nepali: बिहान (bihana)
• Nivkh: тʼатӈ (tʼatŋ)
• Northern Kankanay: wakgat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morgen (no) m, formiddag (no) m

  Nynorsk: morgon (nn) m, formiddag m

• Occitan: matin (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: оутро n (utro)

• Old English: morgen m
• Old Swedish: morghon
• Old Tupi: koema
• Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰺𐰣‎ (y¹r¹n¹ /yarïn/)
• Oromo: barii, ganama
• Pashto: ګهيځ‎ (gahiź)
• Pennsylvania German: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: صبح‎ (fa) (sobh), بامداد‎ (fa) (bāmdād), بام‎ (fa) (bâm)
• Plautdietsch: Morjen m
• Polish: ranek (pl) m, rano (pl) n
• Portuguese: manhã (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸਵੇਰ (pa) f (saver)
• Quechua: paqarin, wara
• Russian: у́тро (ru) n (útro), вре́мя до полу́дня n (vrémja do polúdnja), дополу́денное вре́мя n (dopolúdennoje vrémja)
• Rusyn: ра́но n (ráno)
• Sanskrit: see Thesaurus:प्रभात
• Scots: forenuin
• Scottish Gaelic: madainn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преподне m, јутро n

  Roman: prepodne m, jutro (sh) n

• Slovak: ráno n
• Slovene: jutro (sl) n
• Somali: aroor (so), subax
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zajtšo n

• Southern Altai: эртен (erten), таҥ (taŋ)
• Spanish: mañana (es) f
• Svan: ჰამ (ham)
• Swahili: asubuhi (sw)
• Swedish: morgon (sv) c, förmiddag (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠛꠤꠀꠘ (bian), ꠡꠇꠣꠟ (śoxal)
• Tajik: субҳ (tg) (subh), бомдод (bomdod)
• Tamil: காலை (ta) (kālai)
• Tatar: иртә (tt) (irtä)
• Telugu: తెల్లవారి (tellavāri), ప్రాతఃకాలము (te) (prātaḥkālamu)
• Tetum: dadeer
• Thai: ตอนเช้า (th) (dtɔɔn-cháao), เช้า (th) (cháao)
• Tibetan: ཞོགས་པ (zhogs pa)
• Turkish: sabah (tr)
• Turkmen: ertir, säher, irden
• Ukrainian: ра́нок (uk) m (ránok)
• Urdu: صبح‎ m (subah)
• Uyghur: ئەتىگەن‎ (etigen)
• Uzbek: erta (uz), ertalab (uz), ertalabki (uz)
• Vietnamese: buổi sáng (vi)
• Vilamovian: miügia m
• Walloon: matinêye (wa) f, divant-nonne (wa) m or f, divant-l'-dinner (wa) m, åmatén (wa) m
• Welsh: bore (cy) m
• Yiddish: מאָרגן‎ (yi) m (morgn)
• Zazaki: sefaqi ser, sewdır n
• Zhuang: daengznaw

the part of the day after midnight and before midday

• Afar: saaku
• Ainu: クンネイワ (kunneiwa)
• Albanian: mëngjes (sq)
• American Sign Language: FlatB@NearShoulder-PalmBack-FlatB@BaseInForearm-PalmBack FlatB@SideAbdomenhigh-PalmUp-FlatB@BaseInForearm-PalmBack
• Arabic: صَبَاح‎ (ar) m (ṣabāḥ), شُرُوق‎ (ar) m (šurūq)

  Moroccan Arabic: صباح‎ m (ṣbāḥ)

• Armenian: առավոտ (hy) (aṙavot), ցերեկ (hy) (cʿerek)
• Asturian: mañana (ast) f
• Aymara: arumanthi
• Azerbaijani: səhər (az), sabah (az)
• Bakhtiari: صحو‎ (sohw)
• Bambara: sɔgɔma
• Belarusian: ра́ніца (ránica)
• Breton: mintin (br) m, beure (br) m
• Bulgarian: су́трин (bg) m (sútrin), у́тро (bg) n (útro)
• Burmese: နံနက် (my) (namnak)
• Catalan: matinada (ca) f, matí (ca) m
• Cebuano: kadlawon (after around 3 o'clock until dawn)
• Cherokee: ᏑᎾᎵ (sunali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 早晨 (zh) (zǎochén), 上午 (zh) (shàngwǔ), 早上 (zh) (zǎoshàng)

• Chuvash: ир (ir)
• Czech: ráno (cs) n (shortly after sunrise), dopoledne (cs) n
• Dalmatian: desmun m
• Danish: morgen (da) c
• Dutch: ochtend (nl), morgen (nl)
• Emilian: matèina f
• Eshtehardi: سیبی‎ (seybi)
• Esperanto: mateno (eo)
• Estonian: hommik (et)
• Ewe: ŋdi
• Faroese: morgun (fo) m
• Fijian: mataka (fj)
• Finnish: aamu (fi)
• French: matin (fr) m, matinée (fr) f
• Galician: mañá (gl) f, madrugada (gl) f
• Georgian: დილა (ka) (dila)
• German: Morgen (de) m
• Greek: πρωί (el) n (proḯ), πρωινό (el) n (proïnó)
• Hausa: asuba
• Hawaiian: kakahiaka n
• Hebrew: בֹּקֶר, בוקר‎ (he) m (bóker)
• Hindi: सवेरा (hi) m (saverā), सुबह (hi) f (subah), तड़का (hi) (taṛkā), प्रभात (hi) (prabhāt), उषा (hi) (uṣā), उदय (hi) m (uday), सकाल (hi) m (sakāl)
• Hungarian: (no term for this 12-hour period)
• Hunsrik: Meuend m
• Icelandic: morgunn (is) m
• Ido: matino (io)
• Inari Sami: iiđeed
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pagi (id), ^{(please verify)} subuh? (id)
• Interlingua: matino (ia)
• Irish: maidin (ga) f
• Istriot: mittin
• Italian: mattina (it) f, mattino (it) m
• Japanese: 午前 (ja) (ごぜん, gozen)
• Javanese: ésuk
• Karachay-Balkar: эртден (ertden), эртдембла (ertdembla)
• Kazakh: таңертең (kk) (tañerteñ), ерте (kk) (erte), таң (kk) (tañ)
• Khakas: иртен (irten), иртенгізі (irtengìzì)
• Khmer: ព្រឹក (km) (prɨk)
• Korean: 아침 (ko) (achim), 오전(午前) (ko) (ojeon)
• Kumyk: эртен (erten)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەیانی‎ (ku) (beyanî)

• Kyrgyz: эртең (ky) (erteŋ)
• Ladino:

  Roman: demanyana f

• Lao: ມື້ເຊົ້າ (mư̄ sao)

• Latgalian: reits m
• Latin: mane (la) n, matutina tempora n pl, matutina tempora n pl, crepusculum n, matutinum n
• Latvian: rīts (lv) m
• Lithuanian: rytas (lt) m
• Livonian: ūomõg
• Luxembourgish: Mueren m
• Macedonian: утро n (utro)
• Malay: pagi (ms)
• Malayalam: പ്രഭാതം (ml) (prabhātaṃ)
• Maltese: għodwa f, filgħodu (in the morning)
• Manx: maddin f, madjin f, moghrey m
• Marathi: सकाळ (sakāḷ)
• Mongolian: өглөө (mn) (öglöö)
• Nanticoke: weschpa
• Navajo: abíní
• Norman: matin m (Guernsey, continental Normandy), matîn (Jersey), matinaïe f (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: iđit
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morgen (no) m

  Nynorsk: morgon (nn) m

• Nottoway-Meherrin: suntetung
• Persian: صبح‎ (fa) (sobh), بامداد‎ (fa) (bāmdād), بام‎ (fa) (bâm)
• Polish: rano (pl) n, ranek (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: manhã (pt) f, madrugada (pt) f
• Powhatan: papasowh
• Romanian: dimineață (ro) f
• Russian: у́тро (ru) n (útro), ночь (ru) f (nočʹ) (no distinct time border between them)
• Rwanda-Rundi: igitondo
• Scottish Gaelic: madainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јутро n, сабах m

  Roman: jutro (sh) n, sabah (sh) m

• Shona: mangwana
• Sichuan Yi: ꏜ (ry)
• Sinhalese: උදේ (udē)
• Skolt Sami: ee ́đääldõž
• Slovak: ráno n
• Slovene: jutro (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zajtšo n

• Sotho: hoseng (st)
• Southern Altai: таҥ (taŋ)
• Spanish: madrugada (es) f, mañana (es) f, AM
• Swahili: asubuhi (sw) 9 or 10
• Swedish: morgon (sv) c
• Tagalog: umaga (tl)
• Tatar: irtä
• Telugu: ఉదయం (te) (udayaṁ), పొద్దు (te) (poddu), వేకువ (te) (vēkuva)
• Thai: เช้า (th) (cháao)
• Turkish: sabah (tr)
• Turkmen: ertir, säher
• Tutelo: kanahampuai
• Tuvan: эртен (erten)
• Ukrainian: ра́нок (uk) m (ránok)
• Urdu: صبح‎ f (subah), سویرا‎ m (saverā), پربهات‎ (prabhāt), تڑکا‎ (taṛkā), اشا‎ (uṣā)
• Uzbek: erta (uz), ertalab (uz)
• Vietnamese: buổi sáng (vi)
• Volapük: göd (vo)
• Walloon: å matén (wa) (as qualifier of hours)
• Welsh: bore (cy) m
• West Frisian: moarntiid (fy), moarn (fy) c
• Yakut: сарсыарда (sarsıarda)
• Zazaki: şefaq (diq)
• ǃXóõ: khúbe

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

• Lao: ^{(please verify)} ຕອນເຊົ້າ (lo) (tǭn sao), ^{(please verify)} ເຊົ້າ (sao)

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Interjection

morning

1. A greeting said in the morning; shortening of good morning

Anagrams

• norming

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morninger, definite plural morningene)

1. alternative spelling of morgning

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²moː.ɳɪŋ/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morningar, definite plural morningane)

1. alternative spelling of morgning