gong

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

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EnglishEdit

Gong (instrument)

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Etymology 1Edit

From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeia.

NounEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

percussion instrument

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

  Cantonese: 鑼, 锣 (lo⁴)

  Mandarin: 鑼 (zh), 锣 (zh) (luó)

• Czech: gong m
• Danish: gongong
• Dutch: gong (nl) m
• Finnish: gongi (fi)
• French: gong (fr) m
• Georgian: გონგი (gongi)
• German: Gong (de) m, 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 (jing)

• Lao: ຄ້ອງ (lo) (khǭng)
• Lü: ᦅᦸᧂᧉ (koang²)
• Malay: gong (ms)
• Manchu: ᠯᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (longkon)
• Maori: pahū
• Maranao: momongan
• 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)
• Turkish: gong (tr)
• Vietnamese: cồng chiêng, cồng (vi)

VerbEdit

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 halt or disqualify (a contestant in a talent show) by ringing a gong.
   • 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.

Etymology 2Edit

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.

NounEdit

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 formsEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

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

Derived termsEdit

gong

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

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

Etymology 3Edit

From Mandarin 功.

NounEdit

gong

1. (uncountable) Cultivation energy, which is more powerful than qi
2. A practice that cultivates such energy.

ReferencesEdit

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay gong.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

gong m (plural gongs, diminutive gongetje n)

1. gong, disc-shaped metal percussion instrument

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IndonesianEdit

NounEdit

gong

1. (music) a large gong

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MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

gong (plural gong-gong)

1. a large gong
2. sound of a gong

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MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

gong

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

Usage notesEdit

• 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 BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay gong

NounEdit

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

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

SynonymsEdit

• gongong

ReferencesEdit

• “gong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔŋː/

Etymology 1Edit

From the verb gå

NounEdit

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 alsoEdit

• gang (Bokmål)

Etymology 2Edit

From Malay gong

NounEdit

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

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

SynonymsEdit

• gongong

ReferencesEdit

• “gong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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SpanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• gongo

EtymologyEdit

From Malay gong.

NounEdit

gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

See alsoEdit

• batintín