# writing
## English

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### Pronunciation

* enPR: rītʹĭng, IPA: /ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/
* Hyphenation: writ‧ing
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
* Homophone: riding (some varieties with flapping)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write +‎ -ing.

#### Noun

writing (countable and uncountable, plural writings)
* (uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
** 2003, William G. Boltz, The Origin and the Development of the Chinese Writing System, page 14:Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech […] , to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes.
** 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 115:Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer.
* (countable) Something written, such as a document, article or book.
* (uncountable) The process of representing a language with symbols or letters.
* (countable) A work of an author.
* (countable) The style of writing of a person.
    I can't read your writing.
* (as a modifier) Intended for or used in writing.
    a writing table

##### Synonyms

* (written letters or symbols that express some meaning): text
* (something written): document, manuscript, text
* (work of an author): work
* (the style of writing of a person): hand, handwriting
* (intended for or used in writing): alphabet, character, ideogram, logogram, pictogram, script, syllabary, writing system

##### Derived terms

* automatic writing
* bookwriting
* brainwriting
* creative writing
* cyberwriting
* e-writing
* fanwriting
* foodwriting
* footwriting
* freewriting
* gagwriting
* handwriting
* hymnwriting
* hyperwriting
* in writing
* kickwriting
* majuscule writing
* metawriting
* newswriting
* night writing
* nonwriting
* not worth writing home about
* packet writing
* patchwriting
* playwriting
* protowriting
* put in writing
* scorewriting
* screenwriting
* scriptwriting
* signwriting
* skywriting
* sky writing
* songwriting
* speechwriting
* speedwriting
* spirit writing
* sportswriting
* technical writing
* tendency writing
* the writing is on the wall
* typewriting
* wedge-writing
* writing arm
* writing board
* writing book
* writing desk
* writing hand
* writing implement
* writing instrument
* writing lark
* writing machine
* writing master
* writing obligatory
* writing on the wall
* writing pad
* writing paper
* writing school
* writing spider
* writing table

##### Translations

Afrikaans: skryfwerk
Albanian: shkrim (sq) m
Amharic: መጻፍ (mäṣaf)
Arabic: كِتَابَة f (kitāba)
Egyptian Arabic: كتابة f (ketāba)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כתבא m (ktābā, ktobo)
Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ m (ktābā, ktobo)
Armenian: գիր (hy) (gir), գրելը (grelə), գրություն (hy) (grutʻyun)
Aromanian: scriari f, scriiturã f
Azerbaijani: yazı (az)
Bashkir: яҙма (yaźma)
Basque: idazketa
Belarusian: пісьмо́ n (pisʹmó), пі́сьменнасць f (písʹmjennascʹ)
Bengali: লিখন (bn) (likhon)
Breton: skritur f
Bulgarian: пи́сане n (písane), пи́сменост (bg) f (písmenost)
Burmese: အရေးအသား (my) (a.re:a.sa:)
Catalan: escriptura (ca) f
Central Sierra Miwok: sykýˀ-ja-
Chechen: йаздар (jazdar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文字 (zh) (wénzì)
Czech: písmo (cs) n
Danish: skrift (da) c
Dutch: schrift (nl) n, schrijfsel (nl) n, geschrift (nl) n
Egyptian: (zẖꜣ)
Esperanto: skribo
Estonian: kiri (et)
Finnish: kirjoitus (fi)
French: écriture (fr) f
Friulian: scriture f
Galician: escrita f
Georgian: წერა (ka) (c̣era)
German: Schrift (de) f
Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐌻 n (mēl)
Greek: γραφή (el) f (grafí)
Ancient: γραφή f (graphḗ)
Hebrew: כְּתִיבָה (he) f (ktivá)
Hindi: लेखन (hi) m (lekhan), लिखाई (hi) f (likhāī)
Hungarian: írás (hu)
Icelandic: skrift (is) f
Ido: skribado (io)
Indonesian: tulisan (id)
Irish: scríbhneoireacht f
Italian: scrittura (it) f
Japanese: 筆記 (ja) (ひっき, hikki), 文字 (ja) (もんじ, monji, もじ, moji)
Kannada: ಬರವಣಿಗೆ (kn) (baravaṇige)
Kapampangan: pamagsulat, pamanyulat
Kazakh: жазу (kk) (jazu)
Khmer: ការសរសេរ (kaa sɑsee)
Korean: 쓰기 (ko) (sseugi), 문자(文字) (ko) (munja)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نوسین (nusîn)
Kyrgyz: жазуу (ky) (jazuu)
Lao: ການ​ຂຽນ (kān khīan)
Latin: scriptum (la) n, codex, caudex
Latvian: rakstīšana (lv) f
Lithuanian: rašymas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Schrëft f
Macedonian: пишување n (pišuvanje)
Malay: tulisan (ms), penulisan (ms)
Malayalam: എഴുത്ത് (ml) (eḻuttŭ)
Maltese: kitba f
Marathi: लेखन (lekhan)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бичиг (mn) (bičig)
Norman: êcrituthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skrift (no) f
Nynorsk: skrift (nn) f
Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نِوِشْتِه (fa) (nevešte)
Plautdietsch: Schreft f
Polish: pismo (pl) n
Portuguese: escrita (pt) f
Punjabi: ਲਿਖਾਈ (likhāī)
Quechua: qillqa (qu)
Romanian: scriere (ro) f
Russian: пи́сьменность (ru) f (písʹmennostʹ), письмо́ (ru) n (pisʹmó)
Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: писање n
Roman: pisanje (sh) n
Slovak: písmo n, písanie f
Slovene: pisava (sl) f
Spanish: escritura (es) f, escriptura f (disused)
Swahili: andiko (sw) class ma
Swedish: skrivkonst (sv) c, skrift (sv) c
Tamil: எழுத்து (ta) (eḻuttu), எழுதுதல் (ta) (eḻututal)
Telugu: రాత (te) (rāta)
Thai: การเขียน (th) (gaan-kǐian)
Tuoba: 地何 (*dɪʁa)
Turkish: yazı (tr)
Ukrainian: писе́мність f (pysémnistʹ), письмо́ n (pysʹmó)
Urdu: لیکَھن m (lekhan)
Uyghur: يېزىق (yëziq)
Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: chữ viết (vi)
Welsh: ysgrifen (cy) f
Yiddish: שריפֿט f (shrift)
Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib :

### Etymology 2

From Middle English writinge, wrytynge, writende, writand, from Old English wrītende, present participle of Old English wrītan (“to scratch, carve, write”), equivalent to write +‎ -ing.

#### Verb

writing
* present participle and gerund of write
** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing. ― You are writing! You are writing a lot!
       Audio (US):(file)

### Anagrams

* twiring

## Old English
### Etymology

From wrītan +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwriː.tinɡ/, [ˈwriː.tiŋɡ]

### Noun

wrīting f
* writing

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Derived terms

* wrītingfeþer f (“pen”)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng
** English: writing
** Scots: writing