gong

See also: Gong, gòng, gông, gōng, göng, gǫng, gǒng, gọng, and goŋ

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English

Gong (instrument)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1

From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeia.

Noun

gong (plural gongs)

1. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
2. (Britain, informal) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor

Translations

percussion instrument

• Afrikaans: ghong
• Arabic: جَرَس‎ m (jaras), نَاقُوس‎ m (nāqūs)
• Belarusian: гонг m (honh)
• Bulgarian: гонг m (gong)
• Catalan: gong (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鑼, 锣 (lo⁴)

  Mandarin: 鑼 (zh), 锣 (zh) (luó)

• Czech: gong (cs) m
• Danish: gongong
• Dutch: gong (nl) m
• Finnish: gongi (fi)
• French: gong (fr) m
• Georgian: გონგი (gongi)
• German: Gong (de) m or n
• Greek: γκονγκ n (gkongk)
• Hebrew: גונג‎ m (gong)
• Hindi: घंटा (hi) m (gʰaṅṭa)
• Hungarian: gong (hu)
• Indonesian: gong (id)
• Italian: gong (it) m
• Japanese: 銅鑼 (どら, dora), ゴング (gongu)
• Korean: 징 (ko) (jing), 공 (ko) (gong)
• Lao: ຄ້ອງ (lo) (khǭng)
• Lü: ᦅᦸᧂᧉ (koang²)

• Macedonian: гонг m (gong)
• Malay: gong (ms)
• Manchu: ᠯᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (longkon)
• Maori: pahū
• Maranao: momongan
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: gong (no) m
• Polish: gong (pl) m
• Portuguese: gongo (pt) m
• Romanian: gong (ro) m
• Russian: гонг (ru) m (gong)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гонг m

  Roman: gong (sh) m

• Slovene: gong m
• Spanish: gongo (es) m, gong m, batintín m (Chinese type)
• Swedish: gonggong (sv) c
• Tai Dam: ʻcọng
• Thai: ฆ้อง (th) (kɔ́ɔng)
• Tibetan: འཁར་རྔ ('khar rnga)
• Turkish: gong (tr)
• Ukrainian: гонг m (honh)
• Vietnamese: cồng chiêng, cồng (vi)

Verb

gong (third-person singular simple present gongs, present participle gonging, simple past and past participle gonged)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
   • 1903, H. G. Wells, The Truth About Pyecraft

     Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!

2. (transitive) To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
   1. To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
      • 1996, Stephanie Holt, ‎Maryanne Lynch, Motherlode

        As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children.

   2. To warn.

      The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.

References

• The Gong Show on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.

Noun

gong (plural gongs)

1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, p. 290:

     Þaða he to gange com.

   • c. 1400, The Lay Folks Mass Book, Appendix iii, p. 125:

     I knoweleche to the that ther nys no goonge more stynkynge thenne my soule is.

   • a. 1513, Robert Fabyan, New Cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, Vol. II, p. xxxii:

     The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday.

   • a. 1577,, George Gascoigne, Grief of Joye, Vol. II, § lxii:

     A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe,
     A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall...

2. (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

Alternative forms

• gang, gonge, goonge, goung, gounge, gung, gunge

Synonyms

• (outhouse): gonghouse; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (feces): See Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

gong

• gong farmer, gong-farmer
• gong-fayer
• gong-fower
• gong-hole

• gong-house
• gong-man
• gongpit, gong-pit
• gong-thurl

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 功 (“merit; achievement”).

Noun

gong

1. (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, which is more powerful than qi.
2. An advanced practice, that cultivates such energy.

References

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Drung

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *guŋ (“body; back”)

Noun

gong

1. back
2. body
3. health

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay gong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔŋ/

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• Hyphenation: gong
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

Noun

gong m (plural gongs, diminutive gongetje n)

1. gong, disc-shaped metal percussion instrument

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Indonesian

Noun

gong (plural gong-gong, first-person possessive gongku, second-person possessive gongmu, third-person possessive gongnya)

1. (music) a large gong

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Jingpho

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *guŋ (“body; back”)

Noun

gong

1. physical body

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Malay

Etymology

Noun

gong (plural gong-gong, informal first-person possessive gongku, informal second-person possessive gongmu, third-person possessive gongnya)

1. a large gong
2. sound of a gong

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Mandarin

Romanization

gong

1. Nonstandard spelling of gōng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gǒng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gòng.

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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Malay gong

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gonger, definite plural gongene)

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

Synonyms

• gongong

References

• “gong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔŋː/

Etymology 1

From the verb gå

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gonger or gongar, definite plural gongene or gongane)

1. time

   Kor mange gonger hende det?

   How many times did it happen?

See also

• gang (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

From Malay gong

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gongar, definite plural gongane)

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

Synonyms

• gongong

References

• “gong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• gongo

Etymology

From Malay gong.

Noun

gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

See also

• batintín