breathing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiːðɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -iːðɪŋ

Verb

breathing

1. present participle of breathe

Noun

breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)

1. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
   • 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal

     […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]

2. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
3. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
     CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
     LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
     DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

4. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

   the breathings of the Holy Spirit

5. Aspiration; secret prayer.
   • May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot

     earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

Derived terms

• abdominodiaphragmatic breathing
• accessory breathing
• base-pair breathing
• belly breathing
• box breathing
• circular breathing
• deep breathing
• Kussmaul breathing
• labored breathing
• low breathing
• rough breathing
• smooth breathing
• square breathing
• stagger breathing

 

Translations

act of respiration

• Arabic: تَنَفُس‎ m (tanafus), نَفَس‎ (ar) m (nafas)

  Egyptian Arabic: تنفس‎ m (tanafus)

• Armenian: շնչառություն (hy) (šnčʿaṙutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: tənəffüs, nəfəs (az)
• Belarusian: дыха́нне n (dyxánnje)
• Bulgarian: дишане (bg) n (dišane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸 (zh) (hūxī)

• Czech: dýchání (cs) n
• Danish: vejrtrækning (da) c, åndedræt (da) n
• Dutch: ademhaling (nl) f
• Esperanto: spirado
• Estonian: hingamine
• Finnish: hengitys (fi); henkäys (fi) (single instance)
• French: respiration (fr) f
• Georgian: სუნთქვა (suntkva)
• German: Atmen (de) n, Atmung (de) f
• Greek: αναπνοή (el) f (anapnoḯ)
• Hungarian: légzés (hu), lélegzés (hu)
• Icelandic: öndun (is) f
• Italian: respirazione (it) f
• Japanese: 呼吸 (ja) (こきゅう, kokyū)
• Kazakh: дем алу (dem alu), дем (kk) (dem), тыныс алу (tynys alu)
• Khmer: ដង្ហើម (km) (dɑnghaəm)
• Korean: 호흡(呼吸) (ko) (hoheup)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: henasedan f

• Kyrgyz: дем алуу (ky) (dem aluu), дем тартуу (ky) (dem tartuu)
• Macedonian: дишење n (dišenje)
• Malayalam: ശ്വസനം (ml) (śvasanaṃ)
• Old English: ǣþm m
• Persian: تنفس‎ (fa) (tanaffos), نفس‎ (fa) (nafas)
• Polish: oddychanie (pl) n, oddech (pl) m
• Portuguese: respiração (pt) f
• Romanian: respirație (ro) f
• Russian: дыха́ние (ru) n (dyxánije)
• Rusyn: дыханя n (dŷxanja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: да̏х m, ди́са̄ње n

  Roman: dȁh (sh) m, dísānje (sh) n

• Slovak: dýchanie n
• Slovene: dihanje n
• Spanish: respiración (es) f
• Swedish: andning (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghinga
• Tajik: нафаскашӣ (nafaskašī), нафас (nafas), нафасгирӣ (nafasgirī), дам (dam)
• Thai: การหายใจ (th) (gaan-hǎai-jai)
• Ukrainian: диха́ння n (dyxánnja)
• Uzbek: nafas (uz), dam (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự hô hấp (vi)

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