ting

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ting"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tĭng; IPA^(key): /tɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ting

1. Used to represent the sound of a small bell.
   • 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)

1. 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

The sound made when a small bell is struck

• Finnish: kilahdus (fi), helähdys (fi)
• Indonesian: ting (id)

Verb

ting (third-person singular simple present tings, present participle tinging, simple past and past participle tinged)

1. 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

To make a ting sound

• Finnish: kilahtaa (fi), helähtää
• Ingrian: helähtää

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)

1. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

Etymology 3

From thing.

Noun

ting (plural tings)

1. (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation with one or engagements in criminal schemes or otherwise potentially 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^(key): /tenˀɡ/, [ˈtˢeŋˀ]
• Rhymes: -eŋ

Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing (an individual object)

Declension

Declension of ting

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tingen	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingens	tings	tingenes

Derived terms

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

Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

1. assembly, parliament (a judicial or legislative assembly)

Declension

Declension of ting

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tinget	ting	tingene
genitive	tings	tingets	tings	tingenes

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.

Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

1. parliament
2. thing

Declension

n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ting	tingið	ting	tingini
accusative	ting	tingið	ting	tingini
dative	tingi	tinginum	tingum	tingunum
genitive	tings	tingsins	tinga	tinganna

Hyponyms

• fólkating
• løgting
• tjóðting
• umboðsmannating

 

Related terms

• tingfundur
• tinglimur
• tingmaður
• tingræði

 

Further reading

• "ting" at Sprotin.fo

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiŋ/, [ˈt̪iŋ]
• Hyphenation: ting

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

1. The sound made when a small bell is struck.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

ting (first-person possessive tingku, second-person possessive tingmu, third-person possessive tingnya)

1. lantern

   Synonyms: lentera, tanglung

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, quantified ting)

1. 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^[5]:

     […] mi kiah tel nof gud tingz deh du.

     I can talk bout all the good things they do.

2. (endearing) a woman, especially one familiar to the speaker.

Etymology 2

Derived from English thing.

Verb

ting

1. alternative orthography of tingk.

Further reading

• ting at majstro.com

Mandarin

Romanization

ting

1. Nonstandard spelling of tīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tíng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐng.
4. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. court, assembly

References

• “ting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. a thing
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. a living thing

   Synonym: kvikende

Derived terms

• armodsting
• uting

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ting

1. imperative of tinga

References

• “ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• gint, gnit

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtĩŋ/
• Rhymes: -ĩŋ
• Hyphenation: ting

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

ting (noun form tinga)

1. white

   Synonym: moroting

   upi'atinga ― egg white

2. light (pale in colour)

Usage notes

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

Declension

    Declension of ting (irregular, consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi adjectives)

Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.

Causative	moting
Deadjectivals
-ba'e	tingyba'e
-sab(a)	tingaba
	Singular		Singular & Plural	Plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person exclusive	1st person inclusive	2nd person
Adjectival forms
Active
Indicative	xe ting	nde ting	ting	oré ting	îandé ting	pe ting
Imperative
Permissive	ta xe ting	ta nde ting	ta ting	t'oré ting	t'îandé ting	ta pe ting
Negative indicative	na xe tingi	na nde tingi	na tingi	n'oré tingi	n'îandé tingi	na pe tingi
Negative imperative		nde ting umẽ				pe ting umẽ
Negative permissive	ta xe ting umẽ	ta nde ting umẽ	ta ting umẽ	t'oré ting umẽ	t'îandé ting umẽ	ta pe ting umẽ
Gerund
Affirmative	xe tingamo	nde tingamo	o tingamo	oré tingamo	îandé tingamo	pe tingamo
Negative	xe tinge'ymamo	nde tinge'ymamo	o tinge'ymamo	oré tinge'ymamo	îandé tinge'ymamo	pe tinge'ymamo
Nominal forms
Infinitive
Affirmative	tinga
Negative	tinge'yma
Circumstantial
Affirmative	same as gerund1
	xe tingi2		tingi2	oré tingi2	îandé tingi2
Negative	same as gerund1
	xe tinge'ymi2		tinge'ymi2	oré tinge'ymi2	îandé tinge'ymi2
1South Tupi 2North Tupi

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
• u'itinga
• upi'atinga
• urubitinga
• urubutinga
• ybyratinga
• îabebytinga
• Îagûatinga
• îakutinga

 

See also

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

Etymology 2

Adjective

ting (noun form tinga)

1. nauseous; causing nausea

Declension

    Declension of ting (consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi adjectives)

Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.

Causative	moting
Deadjectivals
-ba'e	i tingyba'e
-sab(a)	tingaba
	Singular		Singular & Plural	Plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person exclusive	1st person inclusive	2nd person
Adjectival forms
Active
Indicative	xe ting	nde ting	i ting	oré ting	îandé ting	pe ting
Imperative
Permissive	ta xe ting	ta nde ting	t'i ting	t'oré ting	t'îandé ting	ta pe ting
Negative indicative	na xe tingi	na nde tingi	n'i tingi	n'oré tingi	n'îandé tingi	na pe tingi
Negative imperative		nde ting umẽ				pe ting umẽ
Negative permissive	ta xe ting umẽ	ta nde ting umẽ	t'i ting umẽ	t'oré ting umẽ	t'îandé ting umẽ	ta pe ting umẽ
Gerund
Affirmative	xe tingamo	nde tingamo	o tingamo	oré tingamo	îandé tingamo	pe tingamo
Negative	xe tinge'ymamo	nde tinge'ymamo	o tinge'ymamo	oré tinge'ymamo	îandé tinge'ymamo	pe tinge'ymamo
Nominal forms
Infinitive
Affirmative	tinga
Negative	tinge'yma
Circumstantial
Affirmative	same as gerund1
	xe tingi2		i tingi2	oré tingi2	îandé tingi2
Negative	same as gerund1
	xe tinge'ymi2		i tinge'ymi2	oré tinge'ymi2	îandé tinge'ymi2
1South Tupi 2North Tupi

Derived terms

• katinga

 

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

1. ding

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ting n

1. a thing, an individual object

   Synonym: sak

2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

Declension

Declension of ting

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ting	tings
	definite	tinget	tingets
plural	indefinite	ting	tings
	definite	tingen	tingens

Related terms

object

• allting
• ingenting
• någonting
• tingest
• tinglig

 

assembly

• 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

1. think