English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan 'to sing, recite', from Proto-Germanic *singwaną (compare West Frisian sjonge, Low German singen, Dutch zingen, German singen, Danish synge, Swedish sjunga), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷh- (compare Middle Welsh deongl (“to explain”), Ancient Greek ὁμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”), Prakrit saṃghai 'to say, teach').
Pronunciation[edit]
sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- "I really want to sing in the school choir." said Vera.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- to sing somebody to sleep
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- To make a small, shrill sound.
- The air sings in passing through a crevice.
- Alexander Pope
- O'er his head the flying spear / Sang innocent, and spent its force in air.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
- Prior
- Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the verb "sing"
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Translations[edit]
to produce harmonious sounds with one’s voice
- Afrikaans: sing
- Albanian: këndoj
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: غنى (ġánnā) imperfect: يغني (yuġánnī)
- Aragonese: cantar (an)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܙܡܪ (zmer)
- Armenian: երգել (ergel)
- Aromanian: cãntu
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: cantar
- Atikamekw: nakamo
- Aymara: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: oxumaq (az)
- Basque: abestu (eu), kantatu (eu)
- Belarusian: спяваць impf (spjavác’), заспяваць pf (zaspjavác’)
- Bengali: গাওয়া (gaoya)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: ttirir
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: пея (bg) (péja)
- Burmese: သီချင်းဆို (thăchin: hso) (literally "say a song")
- Catalan: cantar (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 唱歌 (zh) (chànggē), 唱 (zh) (chàng), 鳴 (zh), 鸣 (zh) (míng) (of birds)
- Crimean Tatar: yırlamaq
- Czech: zpívat (cs)
- Dalmatian: cantur
- Danish: synge (da)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: zingen (nl)
- Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: kanti
- Estonian: laulma
- Ewe: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: syngja
- Finnish: laulaa (fi)
- French: chanter (fr)
- Friulian: cjantâ
- Galician: cantar (gl)
- Georgian: მღერიან (mḡerian), მღერა (mḡera)
- German: singen (de)
- Greek: τραγουδάω (tragoudáo), τραγουδώ (el) (tragoudó), άδω (el) (ádo), ψέλνω (el) (psélno) (a hymn).
- Ancient: ᾄδω (adō)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: mele
- Hebrew: שר (he) (shar)
- Hindi: गाना (gānā)
- Hungarian: énekel (hu)
- Icelandic: syngja (is)
- Ido: kantar (io)
- Indonesian: bernyanyi / menyanyi (of a person), berkicau (of a bird)
- Interlingua: cantar
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: can
- Istro-Romanian: cântå
- Italian: cantare (it)
- Japanese: 歌う (ja) (うたう, utau), 鳴く (ja) (なく, naku) (of birds)
- Jèrriais: chanter
- Kannada: ಗಾನಮಾಡು (kn) (gānamāḍu)
- Kashubian: spiéwac
- Kazakh: өлең айту (öleñ aytw), өлеңдету (öleñdetw)
- Khmer: ច្រៀង (km) (jrieng)
- Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 노래하다 (ko) (noraehada)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: گۆرانی وتن
- Kyrgyz: ырдоо (ırdoo)
- Lao: ຮ້ອງເພງ (hɔ̑ːŋ)
- Latin: cano, canto (la)
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- Latvian: dziedāt
- Lithuanian: dainuoti
- Lojban: sanga (jbo)
- Low German: singen
- Luxembourgish: sangen
- Macedonian: пее (pée)
- Malay: menyanyi
- Malayalam: പാടുക (ml) (pāṭuka)
- Maltese: kanta
- Manx: kiaull
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫnt
- Mirandese: cantar
- Mongolian: дуу дуулах (duu duulah), магтан дуулах (magtan duulah)
- Nahuatl: cuīca (nah)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: synge (no)
- Novial: kanta
- Occitan: cantar (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic: пѣти (pěti)
- Old English: singan
- Old Provençal: chantar
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: سرودن (fa) (sorudan), آواز خواندن (fa) (âvâz xândan), خواندن (fa) (xândan)
- Polish: śpiewać (pl) impf, zaśpiewać pf
- Portuguese: cantar (pt)
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Quechua: takiy (qu)
- Romanian: cânta (ro)
- Romansch: chantar
- Russian: петь (ru) impf (pet’), спеть (ru) pf (spet’)
- Scots: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: seinn, gabh òran, (bird) ceileir
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: певати, пјевати
- Roman: pevati, pjevati
- Sicilian: cantari (scn)
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: ගයනවා (gayanavā)
- Slovak: spievať
- Slovene: peti (sl), zapeti
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: spiwaś
- Upper Sorbian: spěwać
- Sotho: bina (st)
- Spanish: cantar (es)
- Swahili: imba
- Swedish: sjunga (sv)
- Tagalog: kanta (tl)
- Tajik: хондан (xondan), сурудан кардан (surudan kardan)
- Tamil: பாடு (ta) (pāṭu)
- Tatar: җырларга (tt) (cırlarğa)
- Telugu: పాడు (te) (pāḍu)
- Thai: ขับร้อง (kàp róng)
- Tok Pisin: singsing
- Turkish: şarkı söylemek (tr)
- Turkmen: saýramak
- Tuvan: ырлаар (yrlaar)
- Ukrainian: співати (uk) impf (spiváty), заспівати pf (заspiváty)
- Urdu: گانا (ur) (gānā)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: kuylamoq, qoʻshiq aytmoq
- Vietnamese: hát (vi)
- Volapük: kanitön (vo) (transitive)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: canu (cy)
- West Frisian: sjonge
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: זינגען (zingen)
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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confess under interrogation
sing (plural sings)
- A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch zingen.
sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)
- to sing
Hungarian[edit]
sing
- (archaic) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)
