shooting

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ

Verb

shooting

1. present participle of shoot

Derived terms

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

Noun

shooting (usually uncountable, plural shootings)

1. (countable) An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
3. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light

4. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

• shooting brake
• shooting gallery
• shooting iron
• shooting lodge
• shooting preserve
• shooting range
• shooting stick
• skeet shooting
• sure as shooting
• wing shooting

Translations

instance of shooting

• Arabic: إِطْلَاق نَار‏‎ m (ʾiṭlāq nār)
• Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak)
• Belarusian: стральба́ f (stralʹbá), страляні́на f (straljanína)
• Bulgarian: стрелба́ (bg) f (strelbá)
• Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m, afusellament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射擊 (zh), 射击 (zh) (shèjī)

• Czech: střelba (cs) f
• Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f
• Esperanto: pafado, pafado
• Finnish: ampuminen (fi)
• French: tir (fr) m, fusillade (fr) f
• German: Schießen (de) n, Schießerei (de) f
• Ido: pafado (io)
• Italian: sparatoria (it) f

• Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki)
• Karachay-Balkar: атыш
• Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok), 발포 (ko) (balpo)
• Norman: tith'thie f
• Polish: strzelanie (pl) n, palba (pl) f
• Portuguese: disparo m, tiro (pt) m
• Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá), пальба́ (ru) f (palʹbá), перестре́лка (ru) f (perestrélka) (between parties, multiple shots)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пуцање n

  Roman: pucanje n

• Slovak: streľba f
• Slovene: streljanje n, strel (sl) m
• Spanish: tiroteo (es) m
• Swedish: skjutning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: стрільба́ f (strilʹbá), стріляни́на f (striljanýna)

the sport or activity of firing a gun

• Esperanto: pafado
• Finnish: ammunta (fi)
• Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skyting m, f

  Nynorsk: skyting f

• Portuguese: tiro (pt) m
• Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá)
• Spanish: tiro (es) m

Anagrams

• hootings, soothing

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Etymology

From English

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)