kring

From Middle Dutch kring, from Old Dutch *kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz.

• IPA^(key): /krɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

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kring m (plural kringen, diminutive kringetje n)

1. circle; round figure

   Kinderen, ga in een kring staan!

   Children, form a circle!

2. circle, clique (a community of people with a shared common interest)

   Dit is in deze kringen ongebruikelijk.

   This is unusual in these circles.

3. a circular stain left on a table by a wet glass
4. (chiefly Belgium) the student organization of a university faculty

• kringgesprek
• kringloop
• kringspier

• ring

• Negerhollands: rink
• → Indonesian: kring
• → Indonesian: lingkungan (semantic loan)
• → Papiamentu: kren

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /krɪŋ/

kring (first-person possessive kringku, second-person possessive kringmu, third-person possessive kringnya)

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of bell.

From Dutch kring (“circle”), from Middle Dutch kring, from Proto-Germanic *kringaz.

• IPA^(key): /krɪŋ/

kring (first-person possessive kringku, second-person possessive kringmu, third-person possessive kringnya)

1. (Catholicism) subdivision of a parish.

   Synonym: lingkungan

• “kring” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Norse kringr.

• IPA^(key): /krɪŋː/

kring

1. around

• rundt

• kringom

• “kring” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse kringr, originally "turn or go about in circles," from Proto-Germanic *kringaz.

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kring

1. around, about; same as omkring

kring

1. around

• omkring

From Old Norse kringr, originally "turn or go about in circles," from Proto-Germanic *kringaz.

• IPA^(key): [kʰríŋː], [kʰrœ́ʏ̯ŋk], [kʰrɛ́ŋː]

  Rhymes: -íŋː

kring (comparative kringänä, superlative kringäst, neuter kringt)

1. fast, speedy, brisk

• kringt

• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Kring”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 355