ling

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĭng; IPA^(key): /lɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

2. Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae.

   Hypernyms: lotid < gadid < gadiform < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow lotid) cusk, torsk, tusk; (other commercially important gadiforms) cod (Gadus sense), cod (Gadus morhue sense), hake, haddock, pollock, whiting

   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

   2. (especially) A common ling (Molva molva).

• blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
• lingcod
• common ling (Molva molva)

From Middle English ling, linge, from Old Norse lyng.

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

2. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
   1. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
      • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:

        I was sitting by a path on a tussock between some bushes, whence I could overlook the path and a little valley to which it led down, and where nothing but ling and heather grew.

      • 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings:

        Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.

ling (uncountable)

1. (informal) Clipping of linguistics.

• lign-

From Proto-Albanian *linga, from Proto-Indo-European *leig-. Compare English lark (“to frolic”), Lithuanian láigyti (“to run around wildly”), Ancient Greek ἐλελίζω (elelízō, “to whirl around”).

ling m (definite lingu)

1. quick gait, trot
2. hurry, haste, rush

From Old Irish lingid.

ling (present analytic lingeann, future analytic lingfidh, verbal noun lingeadh, past participle lingthe) (ambitransitive)

1. (literary) leap, spring
2. jump at, attack
3. start back, shrink away from (with ó (“from”))

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “ling”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

ling

1. nonstandard spelling of līng
2. nonstandard spelling of líng
3. nonstandard spelling of lǐng
4. nonstandard spelling of lìng

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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ling

1. (County Durham) alternative form of lenge (“ling”)

From Old Norse lyng.

ling

2. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.

• leng, nig, ning

From Proto-Iranian *langa-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *langa- (“lame”), according to Pokorny, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g- (“feeble, weak”).^[1] Confer Persian لنگ (leng, “lame; leg”), Central Kurdish لەنگ (leng), Sanskrit लङ्ग (laṅga, “lame”).

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡ

ling m (Arabic spelling لنگ)

1. leg

   Synonyms: pê, qor

2. foot

   Synonym: pê

• leng

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ling”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 450

• IPA^(key): [liŋɡ]

ling

1. inflection of linge:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋ/

ling

1. ling (Calluna vulgaris)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 108:

     Zing ug a mor fane a zour a ling.

     [Sing to the moor iris, the sorrel and the ling.]

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108