ding

See also: Ding, dìng, dīng, dǐng, dìŋ, and ding-

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).

Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.

Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
   • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:

     If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.

2. (colloquial) A rejection.

   I just got my first ding letter.

Translations

very minor damage

• Finnish: kolhu (fi), lommo (fi)
• Spanish: raspadura f, raspón m

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past dinged or (obsolete) dang, past participle dinged or (obsolete) dung)

1. (transitive) To hit or strike.
2. To dash; to throw violently.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     to ding the book a coit's distance from him

3. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
   • 2007 September, “Ding Repairs”, BBC Wales, archived on 5 October 2014:

     If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.

   His top school dinged him last week.

5. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.

   My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.

   • 2015 August 7, Ron Lieber, “Bringing paternity leave into the mainstream [print version: Paid leave expands for fathers, but will there be any takers?, International New York Times, 10 August 2015, p. 14]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.

6. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).

Derived terms

• ding up

Translations

to hit or strike

• French: bigner (fr)
• Russian: стукнуть (ru) pf (stuknutʹ)

to inflict minor damage on

• Finnish: kolhia (fi)
• French: bigner (fr)
• Russian: повреждать (ru) (povreždatʹ)

(colloquial) To deduct, as points

• Russian: штрафовать (ru) impf (štrafovatʹ)

To mishit (a golf ball)

See also

• dingbat

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
2. (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.

Derived terms

• dingless

 

Translations

high-pitched sound of a bell

• Greek: ντιν (el) n (ntin)
• Russian: дзынь (dzynʹ)
• Ukrainian: дзень (uk) (dzenʹ), дзеньк (dzenʹk), дзінь (dzinʹ)

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dinging, simple past and past participle dinged)

1. (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.

2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
   • 1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists:

     If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.

3. (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.

Derived terms

• dinger

 

See also

• bud-bud-ding-ding
• ding-a-ling
• ding ding
• ding, ding, ding, we have a winner
• ding dong
• ding dong cart
• ding-dong ditch
• ding-dong theory
• dingthrift
• ring-a-ding

 

Etymology 3

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

a ding with an animal mask or taotie

Alternative forms

• ting

Noun

ding (plural dings or ding)

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

Translations

vessel

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼎 (zh) (dǐng)

• Japanese: 鼎 (ja) (かなえ, kanae), 鼎 (ja) (てい, tei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 4

From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

Derived terms

• ding right

 

Etymology 5

Noun

ding (plural dings)

1. (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ding, from Old Dutch thinc, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ding (plural dinge)

1. thing
   • 2016, “Dinge Raak Warm”, in Sal Jy Met My Dans?‎^[2], performed by Kurt Darren, South Africa:

     Dinge raak warm, warm.

     Things are getting hot, hot.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German ding, from Old High German thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing (“appointment; meeting; matter”). Cognate with German Ding, English thing.

Noun

ding n (plural dingar, diminutive dingale)

1. (Sette Comuni) thing, object

Usage notes

Most often used in the diminutive.

Declension

Declension of ding – 3rd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	's	ding	de	dingar
accusative	an	's	ding	de	dingar
dative	aname	me	dinge	in	dingarn

References

• “ding” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ding
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dinc, from Old Dutch thinc, from Proto-West Germanic *þing, from Proto-Germanic *þingą.

Noun

ding n (plural dingen, diminutive dingetje n)

1. matter, thing
   • 2006, Jeroen van Merwijk (lyrics and music), “Een Ding”, in Even Iemand Doodslaan:

     Waarom zijn al die dingen daar ineens maar neergezet? / Is er een dingenmotie aangenomen, of een dingenwet? / Dat in elke straat en elke laan voortaan een soort van ding moet staan? / Ik liep laatst over straat en ik zag 'n ding staan

     Why did people put all these things in place all of a sudden? / Has a things motion been passed, or a law on things? / That every street and avenue should have some kind of thing in it from now on? / I was walking down the street the other day and I saw a thing standing around

Derived terms

• dinges
• onding

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ding
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dinggi
• Jersey Dutch: däng

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ding

1. inflection of dingen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Irish

ding

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲɪɲ(ɟ)/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ding (“wedge”). See Etymology 2 below.

Noun

ding f (genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

1. wedge
2. thickset person

Declension

Declension of ding (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ding dingeacha vocative a dhing a dhingeacha genitive dinge dingeacha dative ding dingeacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ding na dingeacha genitive na dinge na ndingeacha dative leis an ding don ding leis na dingeacha

Alternative forms

• ging (Ulster)
• geinn, ginn (Galway)

Derived terms

• dingchruthach
• dingeach
• dingeán
• dingín

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dingid (“press, force”), from Proto-Celtic *dingeti (“knead, form, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti, nasal infix present of *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form”).

Verb

ding (present analytic dingeann, future analytic dingfidh, verbal noun dingeadh, past participle dingthe) (transitive)

1. wedge; pack tightly, stuff
2. make compact; knit, knead

Conjugation

conjugation of ding (first conjugation – A)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	dingim	dingeann tú; dingir†	dingeann sé, sí	dingimid	dingeann sibh	dingeann siad; dingid†	a dhingeann; a dhingeas / a ndingeann*	dingtear
	past	dhing mé; dhingeas	dhing tú; dhingis	dhing sé, sí	dhingeamar; dhing muid	dhing sibh; dhingeabhair	dhing siad; dhingeadar	a dhing / ar dhing*	dingeadh
	past habitual	dhinginn / ndinginn‡‡	dhingteá / ndingteᇇ	dhingeadh sé, sí / ndingeadh sé, s퇇	dhingimis; dhingeadh muid / ndingimis‡‡; ndingeadh muid‡‡	dhingeadh sibh / ndingeadh sibh‡‡	dhingidís; dhingeadh siad / ndingidís‡‡; ndingeadh siad‡‡	a dhingeadh / a ndingeadh*	dhingtí / ndingt퇇
future		dingfidh mé; dingfead	dingfidh tú; dingfir†	dingfidh sé, sí	dingfimid; dingfidh muid	dingfidh sibh	dingfidh siad; dingfid†	a dhingfidh; a dhingfeas / a ndingfidh*	dingfear
conditional		dhingfinn / ndingfinn‡‡	dhingfeá / ndingfeᇇ	dhingfeadh sé, sí / ndingfeadh sé, s퇇	dhingfimis; dhingfeadh muid / ndingfimis‡‡; ndingfeadh muid‡‡	dhingfeadh sibh / ndingfeadh sibh‡‡	dhingfidís; dhingfeadh siad / ndingfidís‡‡; ndingfeadh siad‡‡	a dhingfeadh / a ndingfeadh*	dhingfí / ndingf퇇
subjunctive	present	go ndinge mé; go ndingead†	go ndinge tú; go ndingir†	go ndinge sé, sí	go ndingimid; go ndinge muid	go ndinge sibh	go ndinge siad; go ndingid†	—	go ndingtear
	past	dá ndinginn	dá ndingteá	dá ndingeadh sé, sí	dá ndingimis; dá ndingeadh muid	dá ndingeadh sibh	dá ndingidís; dá ndingeadh siad	—	dá ndingtí
imperative		dingim	ding	dingeadh sé, sí	dingimis	dingigí; dingidh†	dingidís	—	dingtear
verbal noun		dingeadh
past participle		dingthe

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Derived terms

• dingire m (“wedging implement; light hammer”)

Related terms

• dingireacht f (“wedge-driving; tapping”)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ding f (genitive singular dinge, nominative plural dingeacha)

1. dint

Declension

Declension of ding (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ding dingeacha vocative a dhing a dhingeacha genitive dinge dingeacha dative ding dingeacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ding na dingeacha genitive na dinge na ndingeacha dative leis an ding don ding leis na dingeacha

Verb

ding (present analytic dingeann, future analytic dingfidh, verbal noun dingeadh, past participle dingthe)

1. (transitive) dint

Conjugation

conjugation of ding (first conjugation – A)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	dingim	dingeann tú; dingir†	dingeann sé, sí	dingimid	dingeann sibh	dingeann siad; dingid†	a dhingeann; a dhingeas / a ndingeann*	dingtear
	past	dhing mé; dhingeas	dhing tú; dhingis	dhing sé, sí	dhingeamar; dhing muid	dhing sibh; dhingeabhair	dhing siad; dhingeadar	a dhing / ar dhing*	dingeadh
	past habitual	dhinginn / ndinginn‡‡	dhingteá / ndingteᇇ	dhingeadh sé, sí / ndingeadh sé, s퇇	dhingimis; dhingeadh muid / ndingimis‡‡; ndingeadh muid‡‡	dhingeadh sibh / ndingeadh sibh‡‡	dhingidís; dhingeadh siad / ndingidís‡‡; ndingeadh siad‡‡	a dhingeadh / a ndingeadh*	dhingtí / ndingt퇇
future		dingfidh mé; dingfead	dingfidh tú; dingfir†	dingfidh sé, sí	dingfimid; dingfidh muid	dingfidh sibh	dingfidh siad; dingfid†	a dhingfidh; a dhingfeas / a ndingfidh*	dingfear
conditional		dhingfinn / ndingfinn‡‡	dhingfeá / ndingfeᇇ	dhingfeadh sé, sí / ndingfeadh sé, s퇇	dhingfimis; dhingfeadh muid / ndingfimis‡‡; ndingfeadh muid‡‡	dhingfeadh sibh / ndingfeadh sibh‡‡	dhingfidís; dhingfeadh siad / ndingfidís‡‡; ndingfeadh siad‡‡	a dhingfeadh / a ndingfeadh*	dhingfí / ndingf퇇
subjunctive	present	go ndinge mé; go ndingead†	go ndinge tú; go ndingir†	go ndinge sé, sí	go ndingimid; go ndinge muid	go ndinge sibh	go ndinge siad; go ndingid†	—	go ndingtear
	past	dá ndinginn	dá ndingteá	dá ndingeadh sé, sí	dá ndingimis; dá ndingeadh muid	dá ndingeadh sibh	dá ndingidís; dá ndingeadh siad	—	dá ndingtí
imperative		dingim	ding	dingeadh sé, sí	dingimis	dingigí; dingidh†	dingidís	—	dingtear
verbal noun		dingeadh
past participle		dingthe

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Mutation

Mutated forms of ding

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ding	dhing	nding

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ding”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ding”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 85

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 釘 (MC teng).

Noun

ding 

1. nail

Mandarin

Romanization

ding

1. Nonstandard spelling of dīng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dǐng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dìng.

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.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

ding

1. Alternative form of dingen

Etymology 2

Adjective

ding

1. Alternative form of digne

Old High German

Alternative forms

• dinc, dink, thing

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þing.

Noun

ding n

1. thing, object
2. matter, case

Declension

Declension of ding (neuter a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	ding	ding
accusative	ding	ding
genitive	dinges	dingo
dative	dinge	dingum
instrumental	dingu	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: dinc
  • Cimbrian: ding
  • German: Ding
  • Luxembourgish: Déngen
  • Pennsylvania German: Ding

Scots

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse dengja (“to beat, thrash”). Cognate with Swedish dänga, Danish dænge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

Verb

ding (third-person singular simple present dings, present participle dingin, simple past dang, past participle dung)

1. to beat, hit, strike
   • Traditional, “Jock o Braidislee”:

     An he's awa tae the greenwood gane / Tae ding the dun deer doon.

     And he's gone away to the greenwood / To strike the dun deer down.

2. to beat, excel, defeat
   • 1817, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, II.3:

     ‘Gude help him!—twa lines o' Davie Lindsay would ding a' he ever clerkit.’

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to dash, demolish, tear down
   • 1960, “Freedom Come-All-Ye”‎^[3]performed by Hamish Henderson:

     An the black lad frae yont Nyanga dings the fell gallows o the burghers doun

     And the black lad from distant Nyanga tears the foul gallows of the bourgeois down.

Swedish

Etymology

From Tavringer Romani dinalo, dingalo (“crazy”), from Romani dinelo (“stupid, crazy”). Related to Sanskrit दीन (dīna, “weak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Adjective

ding (comparative mer ding, superlative mest ding)

1. (colloquial) mad, crazy
   • 1968, Peter Himmelstrand (lyrics and music), “Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej”‎^[4]performed by Claes-Göran Hederström:

     Jag fattar ingenting / jag är väl lite ding.

     I just don’t get it / I guess I’m a little bit daft.

Usage notes

• The neuter form is usually avoided, compare rädd.

Declension

Inflection of ding

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	ding	mer ding	mest ding
neuter singular	dingt	mer dingt	mest dingt
plural	dinga	mer dinga	mest dinga
masculine plural2	dinge	mer dinga	mest dinga
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	dinge	mer dinge	mest dinge
all	dinga	mer dinga	mest dinga

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

• ding in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ding in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ding in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Gerd Carling (2005) “ding”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 78

Anagrams

• gnid

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thing, from Proto-West Germanic *þing. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Ding, Dutch ding and German Ding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ/

Noun

ding c (plural dingen)

1. thing

References

• “ding (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 丁 (MC teng).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /tiŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ding¹
• Hyphenation: ding

Noun

ding (Sawndip form 丁, 1957–1982 spelling diŋ)

1. the fourth of the ten heavenly stems

See also

• (Chinese heavenly stems) diengan; gyap, iet, bingj, ding, fouh, geij, geng, sin, nyaemz, gveiq ^{(Category: za:Chinese heavenly stems)}

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Zyphe

Verb

ding

1. to drink
2. to be straight

References

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎^[5]