shopping

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

Verb

shopping

1. present participle of shop

Noun

shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)

1. The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.

   On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 280:

     After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

2. Recently bought goods.

   I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.

3. An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.

   Boston has good shopping.

4. Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
   • 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643:

     The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.

Usage notes

In English, it is common to say do the shopping or go shopping. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

Derived terms

• home shopping
• shopping bag
• shopping basket
• shopping bot

• shopping cart
• shopping center
• shopping centre
• shopping list

• shopping mall
• shopping trolley
• window shopping

Translations

activity of buying

• Albanian: pazar (sq) m
• Arabic: تَسَوُّق‎ m (tasawwuq), شِرَاء‎ m (širāʾ)
• Armenian: գնումներ (hy) pl (gnumner), շոփինգ (hy) (šopʿing), խրիդ (hy) (xrid)
• Azerbaijani: alış-veriş
• Basque: erosketa
• Belarusian: ку́пля f (kúplja), паку́пкі f pl (pakúpki), шо́пінг m (šópinh)
• Bulgarian: пазару́ване n (pazarúvane), паза́р (bg) m (pazár)
• Burmese: ဈေးဝယ် (my) (jhe:wai)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買東西, 买东西 (mǎi dōngxi), 購物 (zh), 购物 (zh) (gòuwù), 血拼 (zh) (xuèpīn)

• Czech: nakupování n, nákup (cs) m
• Danish: indkøb (da) n, shopping (da) c
• Dutch: winkelen (nl) pl, boodschappen doen n, inkoop (nl) m
• Estonian: ostud, ostlemine, šoppamine
• Finnish: shoppailu (fi), ostoksilla käyminen, ostaminen (fi), osteleminen (fi), shoppaileminen (fi), ostelu (fi)
• French: shopping (fr) m, courses (fr) f pl, magasinage (fr) m (Quebec)
• Georgian: ყიდვა (q̇idva), შოპინგი (šoṗingi)
• German: Einkaufen n, Einkauf (de) m, Einkäufe (de) pl or m, Shopping (de) n, Shoppen n
• Hindi: ख़रीदारी f (xarīdārī), ख़रीद f (xarīd)
• Icelandic: innkaup (is) n pl
• Indonesian: berbelanja (id)
• Irish: siopadóireacht f
• Italian: shopping (it) m
• Japanese: 買い物 (ja) (かいもの, kaimono), ショッピング (shoppingu)
• Kazakh: сатып алу (kk) (satıp alw)
• Korean: 쇼핑 (ko) (syoping), 물건사기 (mulgeonsagi), 장보기 (jangbogi)
• Kyrgyz: сатып алуу (ky) (satıp aluu)
• Latvian: pirkšana f

• Lithuanian: pirkimas m
• Macedonian: купување n (kupuvanje), пазарење n (pazarenje), шопинг m (šoping)
• Malay: membeli-belah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: shopping m or f, innkjøp (no) n, handling (no) m or f

• Pashto: خريد‎ (ps) m (xarid)
• Persian: خرید‎ (fa) (xarid)
• Polish: zakupy (pl) pl, sprawunki pl, shopping (pl) m
• Portuguese: compras (pt) f pl
• Romanian: cumpărături f pl
• Russian: поку́пка (ru) f (pokúpka), (normally plural) поку́пки (ru) f pl (pokúpki), шо́ппинг (ru) m (šópping), ку́пля (ru) f (kúplja)
• Scots: messages
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: купо̀вина f, шо̀пинг m

  Roman: kupòvina (sh) f, šòping (sh) m

• Slovak: nakupovanie n, nákup m
• Slovene: nakupovanje n
• Spanish: shopping (es) m, compras (es) f pl
• Swedish: shopping (sv) c, inköp (sv) n
• Tajik: харид (xarid)
• Thai: ชอปปิ้ง (chɔ́p-bping), การซื้อของ
• Turkish: alışveriş (tr)
• Ukrainian: купі́вля f (kupívlja), купува́ння n (kupuvánnja), поку́пки f pl (pokúpky), шо́пінг m (šópinh)
• Urdu: خریداری‎ f (xarīdārī), خرید‎‎ f (xarīd)
• Uyghur: سېتىۋېلىش‎ (sëtiwëlish)
• Uzbek: xarid qilish, xarid (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự đi mua hàng, mua sắm (vi)

things bought

• Belarusian: паку́пкі f pl (pakúpki)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 買的東西, 买的东西 (mǎi de dōngxi)

• Finnish: ostokset (fi) pl
• German: Einkäufe (de) m pl
• Indonesian: barang belanjaan

• Norwegian: varer (no) m pl, matvarer m pl
• Polish: zakupy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: compras (pt) f pl
• Russian: поку́пки (ru) f pl (pokúpki)
• Spanish: compras (es) f pl
• Ukrainian: поку́пки f pl (pokúpky)

Anagrams

• Hoppings, hoppings

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.piŋ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping (act of shopping)

Further reading

• “shopping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔp.pinɡ/, ^*/ˈʃɔp.pin/
• Rhymes: -ɔppinɡ, -ɔppin
• Hyphenation: shòp‧ping

Noun

shopping m (invariable)

1. shopping

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɔ.piŋk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔpiŋk
• Syllabification: sho‧pping

Noun

shopping m inan

1. shopping (leisure activity of going shopping)

Declension

Declension of shopping

	singular	plural
nominative	shopping	shoppingi
genitive	shoppingu	shoppingów
dative	shoppingowi	shoppingom
accusative	shopping	shoppingi
instrumental	shoppingiem	shoppingami
locative	shoppingu	shoppingach
vocative	shoppingu	shoppingi

Further reading

• shopping in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• shopping in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.pĩ/, /ˈʃɔ.pẽj̃/

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping center
2. mall

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Romanian

Etymology

From English shopping.

Noun

shopping n (uncountable)

1. shopping

Declension

declension of shopping (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) shopping	shoppingul
genitive/dative	(unui) shopping	shoppingului
vocative	shoppingule

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃopin/, [ˈʃo.pĩn]

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping center
2. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping, equivalent to shoppa +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ɧɔpɪŋ/

Noun

shopping c (uncountable)

1. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

Declension

Declension of shopping
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	shopping	shoppingen	—	—
Genitive	shoppings	shoppingens	—	—

Related terms

• shoppa
• shop