surfing

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle English suffe?

English suff?

English surf

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-gō

Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English surfing

From surf + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝfɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ

Verb

surfing

1. present participle and gerund of surf

Noun

surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)

2. The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
4. (Internet) The activity of browsing the Internet.
   • 2003, Don Yoder, Groundhog Day, page v:

     To J. M. Duffin, former student and now assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks for courteous surfings of the Internet for missing dates, publishers, and other embarrassing gaps in my text.

Synonyms

• surf riding (obsolete)

Derived terms

• antisurfing
• bed surfing
• bodysurfing
• car surfing
• couch surfing
• couch-surfing
• crowd surfing
• cybersurfing
• doomsurfing
• egosurfing
• ego-surfing
• ego surfing
• elevator surfing
• kite surfing
• kitesurfing
• lift surfing
• netsurfing
• parasurfing
• shoulder surfing
• skurfing
• skysurfing
• snowsurfing
• snurfing
• sofa surfing
• table surfing
• train surfing
• vanity surfing
• volcano surfing
• wakesurfing
• windsurfing
• wing surfing

Related terms

• surf
• surfboard
• surfer

Descendants

• → Armenian: սերֆինգ (serfing)
• → Belarusian: сёрфінг (sjórfinh)
• → Bulgarian: съ́рфинг (sắrfing)
• → Japanese: サーフィン (sāfin)
• → Kazakh: сёрфинг (syörfiyng)
• → Korean: 서핑 (seoping)
• → Polish: surfing
• → Romanian: surfing
• → Russian: сёрфинг (sjórfing)
• → Swedish: surfing, surfning

Translations

sport

• Arabic: رَكْمَجَة f (rakmaja), رَكُوب أَمْوَاج m (rakūb ʔamwāj)
• Armenian: սերֆինգ (serfing)
• Belarusian: сёрфінг m (sjórfinh)
• Bulgarian: съ̀рфинг m (sằrfing), сърфѝране n (sărfìrane)
• Catalan: surf m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝浪 / 冲浪 (zh) (chōnglàng)

• Cornish: mordardha m
• Esperanto: ondorajdado
• Finnish: lainelautailu (fi)
• French: surf (fr) m
• Galician: surf (gl)
• Georgian: სერფინგი (serpingi)
• German: Wellenreiten n, Surfen (de) n
• Greek: κυματοδρομία (el) f (kymatodromía)
• Hawaiian: heʻe nalu
• Hebrew: גְּלִישָׁה f (glishá)
• Irish: marcaíocht toinne f
• Italian: surf (it) m
• Japanese: サーフィン (ja) (sāfin), 波乗り (ja) (なみのり, naminori)
• Korean: 서핑 (ko) (seoping), 파도타기 (padotagi)
• Latvian: sērfings m
• Malay: meluncur, luncur air
• Māori: hekengaru, whakaheke, whakahekeheke
• Norman: seurféthie f
• Polish: surfing (pl) m
• Portuguese: surfe (pt) m (Brazil), surf (pt) m (Portugal)
• Russian: сёрфинг (ru) m (sjórfing), се́рфинг (ru) m (sɛ́rfing)
• Scottish Gaelic: surfadh m
• Spanish: surf (es) m, surfing m, tabla hawaiana f
• Turkish: sörf (tr)
• Vietnamese: lướt sóng
• Welsh: beistonna m, syrffio m

internet

• Galician: navegar (gl)
• Hebrew: גְּלִישָׁה f (glishá)
• Italian: navigazione (it) f
• Kazakh: сёрфинг (syörfiyng)
• Russian: сёрфинг (ru) m (sjórfing)
• Swedish: nätsurfning (sv) c

Further reading

• surfing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle English suffe?

English suff?

English surf

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-gō

Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English surfingubor.

Polish surfing

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.fiŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrfiŋk
• Syllabification: sur‧fing

Noun

surfing m inan

1. (surfing) surfing (sport)

Declension

Declension of surfing

	singular
nominative	surfing
genitive	surfingu
dative	surfingowi
accusative	surfing
instrumental	surfingiem
locative	surfingu
vocative	surfingu

Derived terms

adjective

• surfingowy

verb

• surfingować impf

Related terms

nouns

• surfer
• surferka

verb

• surfować impf

Further reading

• “surfing”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “surfing”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle English suffe?

English suff?

English surf

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-gō

Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English surfingubor.

Romanian surfing

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Noun

surfing n (uncountable)

1. surfing

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	surfing	surfingul
genitive-dative	surfing	surfingului
vocative	surfingule

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle English suffe?

English suff?

English surf

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-gō

Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?

Proto-Germanic *-ungō

Old English -ung

Middle English -ynge

English -ing

English surfingubor.

Spanish surfing

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoɾfin/ [ˈsoɾ.fĩn]
  • Rhymes: -oɾfin
• IPA^(key): /ˈsuɾfin/ [ˈsuɾ.fĩn]
  • Rhymes: -uɾfin
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾfin/ [ˈseɾ.fĩn]
  • Rhymes: -eɾfin
• IPA^(key): /suɾˈfinɡ/ [suɾˈfĩŋɡ]
  • Rhymes: -inɡ
• Syllabification: sur‧fing

Noun

surfing m (uncountable)

1. surfing

   Synonyms: surf, surfismo

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.

Related terms

• surfero

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “surfing”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Noun

surfing c

1. surfing

   Synonym: surfning

Declension

Declension of surfing

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	surfing	surfings
	definite	surfingen	surfingens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• surfa
• surfare