# wing
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: wĭng; IPA: /wɪŋ/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋ

### Noun

wing (countable and uncountable, plural wings)
* (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
    The bird was flapping its wings
* A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
* (slang) Human arm.
* (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
    I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
* One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
* One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
* (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
* (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
* A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
* Passage by flying; flight.
    to take wing
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.
* Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
** c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Fiery expedition be my wing.
* A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
    the west wing of the hospital
    the wings of a corkscrew
* One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
* (slang, MLE) Short for prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
** 2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics):They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
* Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto IX:Fair ship, that from the Italian shore, ⁠Sailest the placid ocean-plains ⁠With my lost Arthur’s loved remains, Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
* A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
** 2017, Laura Bates, Girl Up, page 8:It's a bit annoying but (like sanitary pads with wings) it's worth it if you want to stay extra secure.
* An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
* A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
* A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
* An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
** (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
** (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
* (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
* (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
* (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
** 1864, William M. Brady, The Kedge-anchor:their ends may rest a little below the orlop-wing gratings
* (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
    Smith started the game in the centre of midfield, but moved to the wing after 30 minutes.
* (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
** 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎:The Tottenham wing was causing havoc down the right and when he broke past the bemused Sasa Balic once again, Bellamy was millimetres from connecting with his cross as the Liverpool striker hurled himself at the ball.
* (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
** 1985, David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary, page 378:ˇ wing, wedge, hǎcek, inverted circumflex (Karel Čapek)
* (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
** 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 176:The performers crowded breathlessly in the wings.
* (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
** 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:Anyone and everyone with wings - press officers, operations specialists, even General Curtis LeMay, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe - was put on flight duty and took turns flying double shifts for "Operation Vittles."
* A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
* On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
    Tom's a 4 on the enneagram, with a 3 wing.

#### Alternative forms

* weng, whing, wyng (all obsolete)

#### Synonyms

* (panel of a car): fender (US), guard (Australia)
* (sports position): forward
* (U.S. Air Force): delta (U.S. Space Force), garrison (U.S. Space Force)

#### Hyponyms

* left wing
* right wing

#### Derived terms

* air wing
* angel wing
* angel wings
* anglewing
* awing
* bandwing
* barwing
* bastard wing
* bat's wing
* batswing
* batwing
* bat-wing
* bat wing
* beat the wing
* beeswing
* bewing
* bingo wings
* birdwing
* bite wing
* bitewing
* blood wings
* bluewing
* broadwing
* bronze-wing
* bronzewing
* buck-and-wing
* buffalo wing
* chicken-wing
* chicken wing
* clip someone's wings
* clip the wings of
* cloudywing
* cloudy wing virus
* corkwing
* crimsonwing
* Crow Wing
* cupwing
* cut the pigeon wing
* deformed wing virus
* delta wing
* dropwing
* duckwing
* duskywing
* earn one's wings
* expand one's wings
* fixed-wing
* flatwing
* flexwing
* flopwing
* flying wing
* fly with leaden wings
* fore wing
* front wing
* goose-wing
* goose wing
* greater wing
* greenwing
* gull-wing
* gullwing
* Hawkwing
* hindwing
* hind wing
* hot wing
* if pigs had wings
* if pigs had wings they would fly
* interwing
* lacewing
* leafwing
* leatherwing
* left-wing
* left-wing anarchism
* left-wing anarchist
* lesser wing
* liver wing
* longwing
* mapwing
* mealywing
* midwing
* mothwing
* nosewing
* notchwing
* oblique wing
* on a wing and a prayer
* on the wing
* on the wings of the wind
* on wing
* outwing
* overwing
* parawing
* pigeonwing
* rat with wings
* redwing
* Red Wing
* red wings
* Reich wing
* Reich-wing
* reich-wing
* right-wing
* right-wing socialism
* ring wing
* Rogallo wing
* rotary wing
* rotary-wing aircraft
* rotary-wing intercept
* roughwing
* sabrewing
* scallopwing
* scorched wing
* shortwing
* shufflewing
* shutwing
* singe one's wings
* slimwing
* spoonwing
* spread one's wings
* spreadwing
* spurwing
* standard-wing
* stretch one's wings
* sunwing
* swept-wing
* swept wing
* sweptwing
* swiftwing
* swing-wing
* take under one's wing
* take wing
* tiltwing
* try one's wings
* twistwing
* under one's wing
* underwing
* upon the wing
* upperwing
* upwing
* wait in the wings
* water wing
* waxwing
* whistlewing
* whitewing
* wing and prayer
* wing-and-wing
* wing attack
* wingback
* wing-back
* wing back
* wing bar
* wingbase
* wingbeat
* wingcase
* wing chair
* wing collar
* wing commander
* wing corkscrew
* wing defence
* wingding
* Wingdings
* wingdog
* wingdom
* winged
* winger
* wingette
* wing fence
* wingfic
* wing fic
* wingfish
* wing foiling
* wing-footed
* wing gear
* wing-handed
* winghead
* winghold
* wing in ground effect
* wingism
* wingist
* wing it
* wing king
* wingless
* winglet
* winglike
* wing loading
* wingman
* wingmate
* wing mirror
* wingnut
* wing nut
* wing-nut
* wingover
* wingpad
* wingpit
* wing-play
* wing queen
* wing rail
* wingsail
* wing sauce
* wing-shell
* wing shooter
* wingshooting
* wing-shot
* wing snail
* wingspan
* wingspot
* wingspread
* wingstroke
* wingsuit
* wing surfing
* wingtip
* wing trimmer
* wing walker
* wing walking
* wing wall
* wing warping
* wingwoman
* wingy
* with leaden wings
* wyngz
* x-wing
* y-wing

#### Translations

'Are'are: 'apa'apa
Abaga: ag̶ekonaʔae
Acehnese: sayeuep
Adyghe: тамэ (tamɛ)
Afrikaans: vlerk
Ahom: 𑜆𑜢𑜀𑜫 (pik)
Akkadian: 𒉺 m (kappum)
Aklanon: pakpak
Albanian: krah m
Aleut: igasix̂
Amharic: ክንፍ (kənf)
Arabela: nesu
Arabic: جَنَاح m (janāḥ), كَنَف m (kanaf)
Egyptian Arabic: جناح m (genāḥ)
Moroccan Arabic: جناح m (jnāḥ)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܟܢܦܐ f (kenp̄ā)
Jewish Babylonian: כנפא (kenpā, kanpā)
Argobba: ኽንፍ (xǝnf)
Armenian: թև (hy) (tʻew)
Aromanian: arpã f, aripã f
Assamese: ডেউকা (deuka) (of birds), পাখি (pakhi) (of insects)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: ala (ast) f
Azerbaijani: qanad (az)
Bashkir: ҡанат (qanat)
Basque: hegal
Bau Bidayuh: rad
Belarusian: крыло́ n (kryló)
Bengali: ডানা (bn) (ḍana)
Bhojpuri: पंख (paṅkh)
Bikol Central: pakpak (bcl)
Breton: askell (br) f
Bulgarian: крило́ (bg) n (kriló)
Burmese: အတောင် (my) (a.taung), တောင်ပံ (my) (taungpam)
Butuanon: pagikpik
Catalan: ala (ca) f
Cebuano: pako
Central Melanau: payeang
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamorro: pappa
Chechen: тӏам (tʼam)
Cherokee: ᎪᏯᏛ (goyadv)
Chichewa: phiko
Chickasaw: fanalhchi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 翼 (jik$^6$), 翅膀 (ci$^3$ pong$^4$, ci$^3$ bong$^2$)
Dungan: цыбон (cɨbon), бонзы (bonzɨ)
Gan: 翼膀 (iet$^7$ bang), 翅膀 (ci$^3$ bang)
Hakka: 翼 (yi̍t), 翼胛 (yi̍t-kap)
Hokkien: 翼仔 (si̍t-á), 翅股 (si̍t-kó͘), 舞翼 (bú-si̍t)
Mandarin: 翅膀 (zh) (chìbǎng), 膀子 (zh) (bǎngzi)
Wu: 翅膀 ($^1$tshy$_5$-paon)
Xiang: 翼胛 (ie$^4$ ga), 翅膀 (chr$^4$ ban$^3$)
Chuvash: ҫунат (śunat)
Crimean Tatar: qanat
Czech: křídlo (cs) n
Danish: vinge (da) c
Dhivehi: ވަރަ (vara)
Dutch: vleugel (nl) m, vlerk (nl) f, vleder m, wiek (nl) f
Egyptian: (ḏnḥ)
Elfdalian: waingg m
Erzya: сёлмо (śolmo), паця (paća)
Esperanto: flugilo
Estonian: tiib (et)
Evenki: асаки (asaki)
Faroese: vongur (fo) m
Finnish: siipi (fi)
French: aile (fr) f
Friulian: ale f
Galician: á (gl)
Ge'ez: ክንፍ (kənf)
Georgian: ფრთა (ka) (prta)
German: Flügel (de) m, Schwinge (de) f
Alemannic German: Fëcke m, (Low Alemannic/Alsatian) Fattig m
Greek: φτερό (el) n (fteró), φτερούγα (el) f (fteroúga), πτέρυγα (el) f (ptéryga) (learned)
Ancient: πτερόν n (pterón)
Greenlandic: isaroq
Gujarati: પીછા (pīchā)
Haitian Creole: zèl
Hebrew: כָּנָף (he) f (kanáf), אֶבְרָה (he) f (evra)
Higaonon: pakpak
Hindi: पंख (hi) m (paṅkh), पर (hi) m (par), पक्ष (hi) m (pakṣ), पर्ण (hi) m (parṇ)
Hungarian: szárny (hu)
Icelandic: vængur (is) m
Ilocano: payak
Indonesian: sayap (id)
Ingrian: siipi
Interlingua: ala
Inuktitut: ᐃᓴᕈᖅ (isaroq)
Inupiaq: israġuq
Iranun: papak
Irish: sciathán (ga) m
Old Irish: scíathán m, ette f
Italian: ala (it) f
Ivatan: panid
Japanese: 翼 (ja) (つばさ, tsubasa), 羽 (ja) (はね, hane)
Javanese: suwiwi (jv)
Kabardian: дамэ (kbd) (damɛ)
Kannada: ರೆಕ್ಕೆ (kn) (rekke)
Kashubian: skrzidło
Kazakh: қанат (qanat)
Khmer: ស្លាប (km) (slaap)
Kikuyu: ithagu class 5
Kimaragang: kawo
Kituba: dipapu
Komi-Permyak: борд (bord)
Korean: 날개 (ko) (nalgae)
Kumyk: къанат (qanat)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: باڵ (ckb) (ball)
Northern Kurdish: bal (ku), bask (ku)
Kyrgyz: канат (ky) (kanat)
Laboya: kapa
Ladino: ala f
Lao: ປີກ (lo) (pīk)
Latgalian: spuorns m
Latin: āla (la) f
Latvian: spārns (lv) m
Lezgi: лув (luv)
Limburgish: vläögel m
Lingala: lipapu
Lithuanian: sparnas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Flillek m, Fliicht f
Macedonian: крило (mk) n (krilo)
Malagasy: elatra (mg)
Malay: sayap (ms), kepak (ms)
Malayalam: ചിറക് (ml) (ciṟakŭ)
Maltese: ġewnaħ m
Manchu: ᠠᠰᡥᠠ (asha)
Manx: skian m
Maori: parirau (of a bird or insect), hopehope (of a ray)
Marathi: पंख m (paṅkha)
Middle English: winge
Mohawk: óweia
Moksha: паця (pacä)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: далавч (mn) (dalavč), жигүүр (mn) (žigüür)
Nahuatl: aztli (nah)
Nanai: дэктэчэ (dekteče), хасар (hasar)
Navajo: atʼaʼ
Neapolitan: scella f
Ngazidja Comorian: piho class 5/6
Northern Altai: канат (kanat)
Northern Mansi: товыл (tovyl)
Northern Sami: soadji
Northern Thai: ᨸᩦ᩠ᨠ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vinge (no) m
Nynorsk: veng m
Occitan: ala (oc) f
Odia: ଡେଣା (or) (ḍeṇā)
Ojibwe: (its wing) oningwiigan
Okinawan: 羽 (はに, hani)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: крило n (krilo)
Old East Slavic: крило n (krilo)
Old English: fiþre n
Old Japanese: 翼 (つばさ, tubasa), 羽 (は, pa)
Ossetian: базыр (bazyr)
Ottoman Turkish: قنات (kanat), بال (bâl)
Pannonian Rusyn: кридло n (kridlo)
Papiamentu: hala
Pashto: وزر m (wozzar)
Persian:
Dari: بَال (bāl)
Iranian Persian: بال (fa) (bâl), پَر (par)
Picard: éle f
Pitjantjatjara: nyaḻpi
Polabian: kraidlĕ n
Polish: skrzydło (pl) n
Portuguese: asa (pt) f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਪੰਖ m (paṅkh), ਪਰ (pa) m (par)
Q'eqchi: xik'
Quechua: raphra, rapra, likra
Rohingya: fak
Romanian: aripă (ro) f
Romansch: ala f, ela f
Russian: крыло́ (ru) n (kryló)
Samoan: apa'au
Sanskrit: पक्ष (sa) (pakṣá), पर्ण (sa) (parṇá)
Sardinian: aba f, ala f, àua f
Scottish Gaelic: sgiath f
Sebop: anyap
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кри́ло n
Roman: krílo (sh) n
Shan: ပိၵ်ႇ (shn) (pìk)
Silesian: krzidło n
Sinhalese: පක්‍ෂය (pakṣaya)
Slovak: krídlo (sk) n
Slovene: krilo (sl) n
Somali: baal (so) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kśidło n
Upper Sorbian: křidło n
Southern Altai: канат (kanat)
Spanish: [el] ala f
Sumerian: 𒉺 (pa)
Sundanese: jangjang (su)
Swahili: ubawa, bawa (sw)
Swedish: vinge (sv) c
Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: pakpak (tl)
Tai Dam: ꪜꪲꪀ
Tajik: бол (tg) (bol)
Tamil: இறக்கை (ta) (iṟakkai)
Tarantino: ale f
Tarifit: afar m
Tatar: канат (tt) (qanat)
Tausug: pikpik
Telugu: రెక్క (te) (rekka)
Thai: ปีก (th) (bpìik)
Tibetan: གཤོག་པ (gshog pa)
Tok Pisin: han (tpi)
Turkish: kanat (tr)
Turkmen: ganat
Udmurt: бурд (burd)
Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎐𐎔 (knp)
Ukrainian: крило́ n (kryló)
Urdu: پَنکْھ m (pankh)
Uyghur: قانات (qanat)
Uzbek: qanot (uz)
Venetan: ała f
Vietnamese: cánh (vi)
Vilamovian: fłygel m
Volapük: flitäm (vo)
Walloon: aiye (wa) f, pena (wa) m (birds)
Welsh: adain (cy) f, asgell (cy) f
West Coast Bajau: pepik
West Flemish: vleire f
West Frisian: wjuk, flerk
Xhosa: iphiko class 9/10
Yagnobi: бал (bal)
Yakut: кынат (kınat)
Yiddish: פֿליגל m (fligl)
Zazaki: perzane m, parzonî, bask
Zealandic: vlerke f, vleke f
Zhuang: fwed
Zulu: iphiko class 5/6 :
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### Verb

wing (third-person singular simple present wings, present participle winging, simple past and past participle winged or (colloquial) wung)
* (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
* (intransitive) To fly.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
* (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
* (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
    I lost all my notes I'd made, so was partially winging the meeting.
* (transitive) To throw.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
* (transitive) To furnish with wings.
* (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XL, page 62:⁠Deep folly! yet that this could be— ⁠That I could wing my will with might ⁠To leap the grades of life and light, And flash at once, my friend, to thee: […]
* (transitive) To traverse by flying.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Gwin, gwin

## Chinese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Onomatopoeic?”)

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): wing$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wing$^1$
*** Yale: wīng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wing$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wing$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɪŋ⁵⁵/

### Adjective

wing
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, of person) intoxicated; tipsy

#### Synonyms

* stone

## Middle English
### Noun

wing
* Alternative form of winge

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English wing.

### Noun

wing
* wing

## Vilamovian
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

wing
* little (by amount)

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wɪŋ/

### Noun

wing
* (figurative) cross
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Vour-wing leet.Four cross roads.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78