painting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪntɪŋ

Verb

painting

1. present participle of paint

Noun

painting (countable and uncountable, plural paintings)

A 1765 painting by François Boucher

1. (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.

   The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:

     There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.

2. (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.

   The outside of the old house would benefit from some painting.

3. (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.

   Some artists, like Michelangelo, excel in both painting and sculpture.

   • 1917, Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett, transl., The Darling and Other Stories‎^[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:

     The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

Synonyms

The same activity as an art form

• third art

Derived terms

• cave painting
• oil painting

Related terms

• painter

Translations

an illustration or artwork using paint

• Afrikaans: skildery (af)
• Albanian: piktura f
• Arabic: لَوْحَة‎ f (lawḥa), صُورَة‎ (ar) f (ṣūra), لَوْحَة فَنِّيَّة‎ f (lawḥa fanniyya)
• Armenian: գեղանկարչություն (hy) (gełankarčʿutʿyun)
• Breton: livadur (br)
• Bulgarian: картина (bg) f (kartina)
• Catalan: quadre (ca) m, pintura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圖畫／图画 (zh) (túhuà), 畫幅／画幅 (zh) (huàfú), 畫兒／画儿 (zh) (huàr)

• Czech: obraz (cs) m
• Danish: maleri (da) n
• Dutch: schilderij (nl) n or f, schilderwerk (nl) n
• Esperanto: pentraĵo
• Estonian: maal (et)
• Finnish: maalaus (fi)
• French: peinture (fr), toile (fr) f
• Galician: cadro (gl) m, pintura f
• Georgian: ნახატი (naxaṭi), სურათი (surati)
• German: Gemälde (de) n
• Greek: ζωγραφιά (el) f (zografiá)

  Ancient: ζωγραφία f (zōgraphía), ζωγράφημα n (zōgráphēma)

• Hungarian: festmény (hu)
• Icelandic: málverk (is) n
• Ido: pikturo (io)
• Indonesian: lukisan (id)
• Irish: pictiúr m, péintéireacht f
• Italian: dipinto (it) m, pittura (it) f, quadro (it) m
• Japanese: 絵画 (ja) (かいが, kaiga), 絵 (ja) (え, e)
• Khmer: គំនូរ (km) (kumnuu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: وێنە‎ (ckb) (wêne)

• Latin: pictūra (la)
• Latvian: glezna f
• Lithuanian: tapybos kūrinys m, tapyba f
• Macedonian: слика f (slika)
• Maltese: kwadru m
• Maori: peitatanga, waituhi
• Navajo: naʼashchʼąąʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: maleri (no) n, bilde (no) n

  Nynorsk: måleri n

• Occitan: pintura (oc)
• Old English: tīefring f
• Pashto: انځور‎ (ps) m (anźor)
• Persian: نگار‎ (fa) (negâr), نقاشی‎ (fa) (naqâši)
• Polish: obraz (pl) m, malowidło (pl) n
• Portuguese: pintura (pt)
• Romanian: pictură (ro) f
• Russian: карти́на (ru) f (kartína)
• Scottish Gaelic: lì-dhealbh m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сликање n

  Roman: slikanje n

• Slovak: obraz m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wobraz m

• Spanish: cuadro (es) m, pintura (es)
• Swedish: målning (sv) c
• Tamil: ஓவியம் (ta) (ōviyam)
• Thai: จิตรกรรม (th) (jìt-dtrà-gam)
• Turkish: boyama (tr), resim (tr)
• Ukrainian: карти́на f (kartýna)
• Uyghur: رەسىم‎ (resim)
• Vietnamese: bức tranh (vi), bức vẽ
• Volapük: pänot (vo)
• Welsh: paentiad (cy) m

the action of applying paint

• Arabic: طِلَاء‎ m (ṭilāʔ), دِهَان‎ m (dihān)
• Bulgarian: живопис m (živopis)
• Chechen: басар (basar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繪畫／绘画 (zh) (huìhuà), 油漆 (zh) (yóuqī)

• Danish: malerkunst c
• Dutch: schilderen (nl) n, geschilder n
• Estonian: maalimine
• Finnish: maalaustaide (fi)
• French: peinture (fr)
• Galician: pintado (gl) m
• German: Malerei (de) f
• Greek: ζωγραφική (el) f (zografikí)

  Ancient: ζωγραφία f (zōgraphía)

• Irish: péinteáil f
• Italian: verniciatura (it) f, pittura (it) f
• Japanese: 絵画 (ja) (かいが, kaiga)
• Macedonian: бојадисување n (bojadisuvanje), боење n (boenje), фарбање n (farbanje)
• Maori: peitatanga
• Ngarrindjeri: blewalawun
• Norwegian: maleri (no)
• Old English: tīefring f
• Polish: malowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pintura (pt) f
• Romanian: pictare (ro) f
• Russian: жи́вопись (ru) f (žívopisʹ)
• Spanish: pintado (es) m
• Swedish: måleri (sv) n, målning (sv) c
• Volapük: kölam (vo)
• Welsh: paentiad (cy) m

artistic application of paint

• Arabic: رَسْم فَنِّيّ‎ m (rasm fanniyy), فَنّ تَصْوِير زَيْتِيّ‎ m (fann taṣwīr zaytiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繪畫／绘画 (zh) (huìhuà), 油漆 (zh) (yóuqī)

• Czech: malba f
• Danish: malerkunst c
• Dutch: schilderen (nl) n, schilderkunst (nl)
• Esperanto: pentrado
• Estonian: maalimine
• Finnish: maalaustaide (fi)
• Georgian: ფერწერა (perc̣era), მხატვრობა (mxaṭvroba)
• German: Malerei (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ζωγραφία f (zōgraphía)

• Hungarian: festőművészet (hu)
• Irish: péinteáil f, péintéireacht f
• Italian: dipinto (it) m
• Japanese: 絵画 (ja) (かいが, kaiga)
• Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ (kn) (citrakale)
• Latin: pictūra (la)
• Macedonian: слика́рство n (slikárstvo), живопис (mk) m (živopis)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malerkunst m

  Nynorsk: målarkunst m

• Old English: tīefring f
• Polish: malarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: pintura (pt) f
• Romanian: pictură (ro) f
• Russian: жи́вопись (ru) f (žívopisʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сликарство n, живопис m

  Roman: slikarstvo (sh) n, živopis (sh) m

• Spanish: pintura (es) f
• Swedish: måleri (sv)
• Ukrainian: живо́пис m (žyvópys), маля́рство n (maljárstvo)
• Volapük: pänam
• Welsh: paentiad (cy) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ewe: ^{(please verify)} nutata
• French: ^{(please verify)} art pictural

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