# shopping
## English
### Etymology

By surface analysis, shop +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

### Verb

shopping
* present participle and gerund of shop

### Noun

shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)
* The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
    On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
** 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Opinions”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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.
** 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 132:Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
** 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC: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.
* Recently bought goods.
    I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
* An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
    Boston has good shopping.
* 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

* asylum shopping
* body shopping
* comparison-shopping
* comparison shopping
* doctor shopping
* e-shopping
* forum shopping
* home shopping
* jurisdiction shopping
* law shopping
* mystery shopping
* personal shopping
* revenge shopping
* sex and shopping
* shopping agent
* shopping bag
* shopping basket
* shopping bot
* shopping cart
* shopping center
* shopping centre
* shopping guide
* shopping list
* shopping mall
* shopping net
* shopping precinct
* shopping spree
* shopping trolley
* vaccine shopping
* window-shopping
* window shopping

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: շոփինգ (šopʻing)
* → Azerbaijani: şopinq
* → Belarusian: шо́пінг (šópinh)
* → Georgian: შოფინგი (šopingi)
* → Macedonian: шопинг (šoping)
* → Russian: шопинг (šoping), шо́ппинг (šópping)
** → Armenian: շոպինգ (šoping)
** → Georgian: შოპინგი (šoṗingi)
* → Serbo-Croatian: šòping, шо̀пинг
* → Thai: ชอปปิ้ง (chɔ́p-bpîng), ช้อปปิ้ง (chɔ́p-bpîng)
* → Ukrainian: шо́пінг (šópinh)

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Hoppings, hoppings

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɔ.piŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)
* shopping (act of shopping)

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈʃɔp.pinɡ/, $^*$/ˈʃɔp.pin/
* Rhymes: -ɔppinɡ, -ɔppin
* Hyphenation: shòp‧ping

### Noun

shopping m (invariable)
* shopping

### References

* ↑ shopping in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Polish
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from shopping.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʂɔ.piŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔpiŋk
* Syllabification: sho‧pping

### Noun

shopping m inan
* (colloquial) shopping (leisure activity of going shopping to large shopping centres)
    Synonyms: kupowanie, sprawunki, zakupy

#### Related terms

* shopoholiczka
* shopoholik
* shopoholizm
* shopperka

### Further reading

* shopping in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* shopping at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Ellipsis of English shopping center.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.pĩ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʃɔ.pĩɡ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔpĩ, (Portugal) -ɔpĩɡ

### Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)
* shopping center
* mall (an enclosed shopping center)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

### Noun

shopping n (uncountable)
* shopping

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃopinɡ/ [ˈʃo.pĩŋɡ]
* Rhymes: -opinɡ

### Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)
* shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
* shopping center
    Synonym: centro comercial

#### 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.

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /¹ɧɔpɪŋ/

### Noun

shopping c (uncountable)
* shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

#### Related terms

* shoppa
* shop