sung

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sung"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /sʌŋ/

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• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /sʊŋ/
• (Northern England, Midlands, without the NG-coalescence) IPA^(key): /sʊŋɡ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Verb

sung

1. past participle of sing
2. (archaic or dialectal) simple past of sing
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:3:

     And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

   • 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:

     Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks.

   • 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:

     It was one of those serene and lovely mornings that sometimes succeed a storm. The birds sung loud and cheerily […]

   • 1920, Annie Shepley Omori & Kochi Doi, "The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu" (translated), Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, page 105

     The August Prince's First Officer […] sung a song; although it was unaccompanied by dancing it was very delightful.

Translations

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Translations to be checked

• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} we-eng-â-din

Derived terms

• sung-through

Anagrams

• Ngus, Ungs, gnus, guns, nugs, snug

Albanian

Etymology

An archaic form of cung, present in the work of early authors Budi and Bardhi - ...veçë posikūr ndōnjë gjymptyrë që a prem e dām sungut (...only like a limb which is cut and separated as a stump).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sunɡ/

Noun

sung

1. alternative form of cung (“tree stump”)

Atong (India)

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sung

1. remembrance, thought, mind, brain, intelligence, spirit, life

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Classifier

sung

1. classifier for hollow cylindrical objects or tubes

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *suːŋ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suŋ/

Noun

sung

1. lake

   Synonyms: nan, pung

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [suŋ]

Verb

sung

1. alternative form of sungi (“new”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sung

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tosung	fosung	misung
2nd person		nosung	nisung
3rd person	masculine	osung	isung yosung (archaic)
	feminine	mosung
	neuter	isung

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂʊwŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [sʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂʊwŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [sʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *t-ruːŋ. Compare Pacoh tarúng (“fig”).

Noun

sung • (𣑁) (classifier cây, trái, quả)

1. sycamore, fig

Derived terms

• há miệng chờ sung

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 充.

Adjective

sung

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Derived terms

• sung sức
• sung túc