# ting
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĭng; IPA: /tɪŋ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋ

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

ting
* The sound of a small bell being struck.
** 1839, Charles Dickens, “The Private Theatricals”, in Sketches by Boz:Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
** 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:“Aah, Miss Zoe!” proclaimed Raj, as she opened the door to his shop. The bell rang as she entered. TING.

#### Noun

ting (plural tings)
* A high-pitched ringing sound, as made when a small bell is struck.
** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiii. 307:Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
** 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36:At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.

##### Translations
#### Verb

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)
* To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
    When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.
** 1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, in Railway Magazine, page 38:It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.

##### Translations
#### See also

* ding
* ding dong
* tintinnabulation

### Etymology 2

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng) Wade-Giles romanization: ting³.

#### Alternative forms

* ding

#### Noun

ting (plural tings or ting)
* An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

#### References

* ↑ Brian Hook, editor (1982), “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 485: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] ting (ding) vessel 鼎”

### Etymology 3

From thing.

#### Noun

ting (plural tings)
* (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).
** 2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave:Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags

##### Derived terms

* battri ting
* big man ting
* peng ting
* side ting

#### References

* “ting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* GTIN, gnit

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse þing n (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą, cognate with Icelandic þing (“assembly, parliament”), Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål ting (“thing”), English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tenˀɡ/, [ˈtˢeŋˀ]
* Rhymes: -eŋ

### Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)
* thing (an individual object)

#### Derived terms

* alting (“everything”)
* ingenting (“nothing”)
* tingslig (“regarding things”)

### Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)
* assembly, parliament (a judicial or legislative assembly)

#### Derived terms

* alting (“Icelandic parliament”)
* folketing (“parliament”) (Folketinget (“Danish parliament”))
* lagting (“regional parliament”) (Lagtinget (“Faroese parliament”))
* landsting (“regional parliament”) (Landstinget (“Greenlandic parliament”))
* på tinge (“in parliament”)

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)
* parliament
* thing

#### Hyponyms

* fólkating
* løgting
* tjóðting
* umboðsmannating

#### Related terms

* tingfundur
* tinglimur
* tingmaður
* tingræði

### Further reading

* "ting" at Sprotin.fo

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈtiŋ/ [ˈt̪iŋ]
* Rhymes: -iŋ
* Syllabification: ting

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Noun

ting (plural ting-ting)
* The sound made when a small bell is struck.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 燈 / 灯 (teng, “light; lamp; lantern”).

#### Noun

ting (plural ting-ting)
* (dialectal) Synonym of lentera (“lantern”)

### Further reading

* “ting” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology 1

Derived from English thing.

#### Noun

ting (plural ting dem or tingz)
* thing
** 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 22:26:Di sed ting apm tu di sekan breda, di tord wan, an aal a dem dong tu breda nomba sevn.The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
** 2014, Larry Change, Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language‎:[…] mi kiah tel nof gud tingz deh du.I can talk bout all the good things they do.
* (endearing) a woman, especially one familiar to the speaker.

### Etymology 2

Derived from English think.

#### Verb

ting
* alternative orthography of tingk.

### Further reading

* ting at majstro.com

### References

* ↑ Reynolds, Ras Dennis Jabari (2006) Jabari : authentic Jamaican dictionary of the Jamic language ; featuring Jamaican Patwa and Rasta Iyaric pronunciations and definitions‎

## Mandarin
### Romanization

ting
* Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
* Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
* Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
* Nonstandard spelling of tìng.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Etymology

From English thing.

### Noun

ting
* thing

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

### Noun

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)
* a thing

#### Derived terms

* småting
* tingbok
* tingfred
* tinghus
* tingkvinne
* tinglag
* tinglyse
* tinglysing
* tinglysning
* tingmann
* tingmøte
* tingrepresentant
* tingrett
* tingrettsdommer
* tingsete
* tingsrett
* tingstad
* tingsted
* tingstove
* tingstue
* tingsvitne
* tingvoll

### Noun

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga or tingene)
* court, assembly

### References

* “ting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪŋː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Doublet of dings and tingest. Akin to English thing.

#### Noun

ting m (definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)
* a thing
* an issue

##### Synonyms

* (an object): gjenstand, greie, sak
* (an issue): sak

##### Derived terms

* allting
* biting
* bruksting
* einskildting
* filleting
* forbruksting
* fornting
* ingenting
* luksusting
* mellomting
* nytteting
* småting
* tingallmuge
* tingbok
* tingbolk
* tingdag
* tingen i seg sjølv
* tingfred
* tinghus
* tingkvinne
* tinglag
* tingleg
* tinglesa
* tinglese
* tinglysa
* tinglyse
* tinglysing
* tingmann
* tingmøte
* tingrepresentant
* tingrett
* tingrettsdomar
* tingrettsdommar
* tingsete
* tingsrett
* tingstad
* tingstove
* tingstue
* tingsvitne
* tingvoll
* tingålmuge
* uting
* utstillingsting

##### Related terms

* tinga, tinge

#### Noun

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)
* court, assembly

##### Derived terms

* allting
* folketing
* fylkesting
* kråketing
* lagting
* odelsting
* sameting
* storting
* Stortinget
* tingfred
* tingvoll
* valting
* verneting

#### Noun

ting n (definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)
* a living thing
    Synonym: kvikende

##### Derived terms

* armodsting
* uting

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

ting
* imperative of tinga

### References

* “ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* gint, gnit

## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtĩŋ/
* Rhymes: -ĩŋ
* Hyphenation: ting

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tiŋ, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tˀiŋ.

#### Adjective

ting (noun form tinga)
* white
    Synonym: moroting
    upi'atinga ― egg white
* light (pale in colour)

##### Usage notes

* ting is an irregular adjective. It absorbs the dummy pronoun i when used predicatively.

##### Related terms

* 'atinga
* abati'itinga
* abatitinga
* akangaotinga
* akaratinga
* amba'ytinga
* amoretinga
* anhu'ytinga
* atatinga
* esatinga
* gûyratinga
* inambutinga
* itaitinga
* itaîutinga
* ka'atinga
* kamaratinga
* karipiratyatinga
* kukuritinga
* mana'ytinga
* Mo'ytinga
* myîu'itinga
* pakoka'atinga
* pindatinga
* pira'itinga
* piranhatinga
* piratinga
* poti'atinga
* pykasutinga
* sabîatinga
* sarinambitinga
* saûîatinga
* sere'ytinga
* sûasutinga
* tabatinga
* tapyîtinga
* tinga
* tingaíba
* titinga
* u'iesakûatinga
* u'itinga
* upi'atinga
* urubitinga
* urubutinga
* ybyratinga
* îabebytinga
* Îagûatinga
* îakutinga

##### See also

Colors in Old Tupi (layout · text) :
| Nouns | piranga | îuba, tagûá (LGA) | oby | obyeté | *umbyka | morotinga, tinga | una, pyxuna (LGA) | tingaíba, pytanga / pyxanga |
| Adjectives | pirang | îub, tagûá (LGA) | oby | obyeté | *umbyk | moroting, ting | un, pyxun (LGA) | tingaíb, pytang / pyxang |

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

ting (noun form tinga)
* nauseous; causing nausea

##### Derived terms

* katinga

### References

* ↑ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* ↑ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎, 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

### Further reading

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tinga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 477–478

## Romanian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

ting
* ding

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish þing, from Old Norse þing (“assembly, council, business”), from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ting n
* a thing, an individual object
    Synonym: sak
* a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

#### Related terms

* allting
* ingenting
* någonting
* tingest
* tinglig
* allting
* folketing
* lagting
* landsting
* storting
* tingsbord
* tingsdomare
* tingsfiskal
* tingsfrid
* tingshus
* tingslag
* tingsmerit
* tingsmeriterad
* tingsmeritering
* tingsnotarie
* tingsplats
* tingspredikan
* tingsrätt
* tingssal
* tingsställe
* tingstjänstgöring

### See also

* tinga

### References

* ting in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

## Tok Pisin
### Alternative forms

* tingting

### Etymology

From English think.

### Verb

ting
* think