English

Noun

ting ‎(plural tings)

1. The sound of a small metallic bell.
   • 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.

Translations

Verb

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

1. To make a ting sound

   When the food was ready, the bell tinged

Translations

See also

• ding
• ding dong
• tintinnabulation

Etymology 2

Chinese: 鼎, pinyin: dǐng.

Alternative forms

• ding

Noun

ting ‎(plural tings)

1. ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
2. The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þing ‎(“assembly, council, or business”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Cognate with modern Icelandic þing (of the same meaning), and fellow Scandinavian languages Swedish and Norwegian ting, where the word's meaning has broadened to the sense of thing; any individual object (compare Icelandic hlutur). Also cognate with English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tˢeŋˀ]

Noun

ting c (singular definite tingen, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; an individual object

Derived terms

• alting
• ingenting

Inflection

Noun

ting n (singular definite tinget, plural indefinite ting)

1. thing; a judicial or legislative assembly

Derived terms

• Folketinget

Inflection

Faroese

Etymology

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

Noun

ting n (genitive singular tings, plural ting)

1. parliament
2. thing

Declension

Derived terms

• tingmaður
• tingkvinna

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English thing.

Noun

ting

1. thing

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. a thing

Derived terms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

ting m ‎(definite singular tingen, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. a thing

Derived terms

Noun

ting n ‎(definite singular tinget, indefinite plural ting, definite plural tinga)

1. court, assembly

References

• “ting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ting n

1. a thing, an individual object
2. a thing, a court of law; a judicial or legislative assembly

Declension

Related terms

object

• allting
• någonting
• ingenting
• tingest
• tinglig

assembly

Synonyms

• sak; a thing, individual object

See also

• tinga

References

• ting in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)