gong

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɒŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɑŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic.

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, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.

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.

3. (Britain, slang, transitive) To give an award or medal to.
   • 1997, Peter Stone, The Lady and the President (page 147)

     In 1972 he was awarded the British Red Cross Silver Medal for his services to the Red Cross. In 1978 he was 'gonged' once again, this time with the Queen's Jubilee Medal, marking the 25th year of her reign.

• The Gong Show on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”),[1] derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”),[2] whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear.[3] Doublet of gang.

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.

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

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

From Mandarin 功 (“merit; achievement”).

gong (uncountable)

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

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

gong

1. back
2. body
3. health

Borrowed from Malay gong.

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔŋ/

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• Hyphenation: gong
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

gong m (plural gongs, diminutive gongetje n)

1. gong, disc-shaped metal percussion instrument

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gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

• sauvé par le gong

• “gong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

1. (music) a large gong

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

gong

1. physical body

• IPA^(key): /ɡoŋ/, /ɡɔŋ/

gong

1. body
2. middle

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

• IPA^(key): /ɡoŋ/
• Rhymes: -oŋ

From Classical Malay [script needed] (gong), from Javanese gong.

gong (Jawi spelling ݢوڠ‎, plural gong-gong, informal 1st possessive gongku, 2nd possessive gongmu, 3rd possessive gongnya)

1. (music) a gong
2. (onomatopoeia) the sound a gong makes.

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

gong (Jawi spelling ݢوڠ‎, plural gong-gong, informal 1st possessive gongku, 2nd possessive gongmu, 3rd possessive gongnya)

1. (botany) Helicia petiolaris

   Synonym: putat tepi

2. (botany) Xerospermum laevigatum

   Synonym: rambutan pacat

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

gong (Jawi spelling ݢوڠ‎)

1. (obsolete) a bit crazy

   Synonym: gila

   Antonym: waras

2. (obsolete) stupid

   Synonyms: bodoh, bebal, tolol

   Antonyms: pandai, bijak

• “gong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

gong

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

• 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.

Cognate with Warji gung, Polci goŋ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡòŋ/

gong

1. chief, king, ruler

• Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

• gang, gonge, goonge

Inherited from Old English gang, from Proto-West Germanic *gang, form Proto-Germanic *gangaz. Compare gangen.

• IPA^(key): /ɡanɡ/, /ɡaːnɡ/, /ɡɔnɡ/, /ɡɔːnɡ/

gong (plural gonges)

1. An outhouse; a building used as a lavatory.
2. (Northern) A group or set of items.
3. (chiefly Northern, uncommon) A walk; a journey, especially by foot.
4. (Northern, rare) A gait; the way one walks.
5. (poetic, rare) A band or company of armed men.

• English: gang (see there for further descendants); gong, goung (obsolete)
• Scots: gang, gaung, ging

  Northeastern: dyang, gyang

• “gā̆ng, gō̆ng, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Malay gong.

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

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

• gongong

• “gong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔŋː/

From the verb gå.

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?

• gang (Bokmål)

From Malay gong.

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

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

• gongong

• “gong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From French gong.

gong n (plural gonguri)

1. gong

• gongo

From Malay gong.

gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

• batintín

• “gong”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

gong

1. thin

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf