dung

See also: Dung, dùng, Dũng, dụng, dưng, dừng, dửng, dựng, đúng, and dūŋ

English

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dung

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʌŋ/
Rhymes: -ʌŋ
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Etymology 1

From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).

Noun

dung (countable and uncountable, plural dungs)

(uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 129:
  Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 2:3:
  Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 496:
  The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
(countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.

Derived terms

terms derived from dung (noun)

Translations

manure

Albanian: pleh (sq) m, bajgë (sq) f
Arabic: رَوْث m (rawṯ)
Armenian: գոմաղբ (hy) (gomaġb)
Aromanian: baligă f
Assamese: গোবৰ (gübor), গু (gu)
Azerbaijani: peyin (az), gübrə (az)
Belarusian: гной m (hnoj), кал (kal)
Bikol Central: udo (bcl)
Bulgarian: оборски тор m (oborski tor), тор m (tor)
Burmese: ချေး (my) (hkye:), မြေဩဇာ (my) (mreau:ja)
Catalan: adob (ca) m, fem (ca) m, femta (ca) f
Chamicuro: tuki
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肥 (zh) (féi), 肥料 (zh) (féiliào), 糞肥／粪肥 (zh) (fènféi), 糞／粪 (zh) (fèn), 屎 (zh)
Czech: hnůj (cs) m, mrva (cs) f, trus (cs) m
Danish: gødning (da) c, møg
Dutch: mest (nl) m
Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: sterko
Estonian: sõnnik
Finnish: lanta (fi), sonta (fi)
French: bouse (fr) f, fumier (fr) m, purin (fr) m
Galician: esterco (gl) m, bosta (gl) f, cuito m, estrume (gl) m, gasto m, iboño m
Gallo: fien m
Georgian: ნეხვი (nexvi), სკორე (sḳore)
German: Dünger (de) m, Mist (de) m
Gothic: 𐍃𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰 f (smarna), 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 m (maihstus)
Greek: κόπρος (el) f (kópros)
Ancient: κόπρος f (kópros), ὄνθος f (ónthos), σπέλεθος m (spélethos)
Gujarati: પોદળો m (podaḷo), છાણ n (chāṇ)
Haitian Creole: fimye
Hebrew: זֶבֶל (he) m (zével)
Higaonon: ta-i
Hindi: गोबर (hi) m (gobar), मल (hi) m (mal), लीद (hi) f (līd), विष्ठा (hi) f (viṣṭhā), गू (hi) m (gū), गूह (hi) m (gūh), गुह (hi) m (guh), खाद (hi) (khād), उपला (hi) m (uplā)
Hungarian: trágya (hu)
Icelandic: mykja f
Irish: aoileach m
Italian: escremento (it) f, feci (it) f, sterco (it) m, letame (it) m, fimo (it) m, ordura (it) f
Japanese: 肥 (ja) (こえ, koe), 肥料 (ja) (ひりょう, hiryō)
Kazakh: көң (köñ)
Khmer: ជីអាចម៍សត្វ (cii ʔac sat)
Korean: 똥 (ko) (ttong), 똥거름 (ko) (ttonggeoreum), 비료(肥料) (ko) (biryo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕیخ (rîx), تەرس (ters), پشکڵ (pişkill)

Northern Kurdish: rîx (ku) f
Kyrgyz: көң (köŋ), кык (kık), тезек (ky) (tezek)
Lao: ຂີ້ (lo) (khī), ມູນ (mūn)
Latin: stercus (la) n, fimum (la) m
Latvian: mēsli m pl
Lithuanian: mėšlas m pl
Lü: ᦃᦲᧉ (ẋii²)
Macedonian: измет m (izmet)
Malayalam: ചാണകം (ml) (cāṇakaṁ)
Manchu: ᡶᠠᠵᠠᠨ (fajan)
Manx: eoylley
Maori: hamuti, hamiti, roke, tūtae, tiko
Middle English: donge
Mongolian: аргал (mn) (argal), баас (mn) (baas)
Navajo: chąąʼ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: møkk (no) m or f, gjødsel
Ojibwe: moo
Old Church Slavonic: мотꙑла f (motyla)
Ottoman Turkish: فشقی (fışkı), تزك (tezek)
Persian: سرگین (fa) (sergin), کود (fa) (kud)
Pitjantjatjara: kuna
Plautdietsch: Mest n
Polish: gnój (pl) m, nawóz (pl) m, kał (pl) m
Portuguese: estrume (pt), esterco (pt)
Romanian: bălegar (ro) m, balegă (ro) f
Russian: наво́з (ru) m (navóz), кал (ru) m (kal), помёт (ru) m (pomjót), экскреме́нты (ru) m pl (ekskreménty) (excrement)
Scottish Gaelic: buachar m, todhar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бале́га f, гно̑ј m, гно̏јӣво n

Roman: baléga (sh) f, gnȏj (sh) m, gnȍjīvo (sh) n
Sicilian: fumèri
Sidamo: obba
Slovak: hnoj (sk) m
Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
Somali: xaar-walwaal (so)
Spanish: excremento (es) m, estiércol (es) m
Swedish: dynga (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠙꠞ (gufor)
Tajik: пору (poru), саргин (sargin)
Telugu: ముటము (te) (muṭamu)
Thai: มูล (th) (muun), ขี้ (th) (kîi)
Tocharian B: weṃts, kekärtkor
Tongan: táë
Turkish: dışkı (tr), tezek (tr), gübre (tr)
Turkmen: tezek, gyýk, dökün
Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: гній m (hnij), кал m (kal), екскреме́нти m pl (ekskreménty)
Uzbek: goʻng (uz), oʻgʻit (uz)
Vietnamese: phân (vi), phân chuồng (vi)
Walloon: ansene (wa) f
Warlpiri: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: tail (cy) m
West Frisian: dong
Zhuang: haex
Zou: eeh

Verb

dung (third-person singular simple present dungs, present participle dunging, simple past and past participle dunged)

(transitive) To fertilize with dung.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground
- 1993, Henry Leach, Endure No Makeshifts: Some Naval Recollections:
  She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.
(transitive, calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(intransitive) To release dung: to defecate.
- 1669, John Baptiſta Porta, chapter V, in Natural Magick‎^[1], The Third Book Of Natural Magick: […] , page 68:
  […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]