tong

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɒŋ/
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• General-American: /tɔŋ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /tɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɒŋ
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• homophone: tongue (some Northern English accents)
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• CMU ARPABET: T AO1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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For the surname: Borrowed from Cantonese 湯/汤 (tong1), Cantonese 唐 (tong4), Mandarin 佟 (Tóng), Mandarin 童 (Tóng), etc.

From Middle English tonge (“tongs, fang”), tange, from Old English tange, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”). Cognate with Old Norse tǫng (modern Icelandic töng), Old High German zanga (modern German Zange). Other cognates include Sanskrit दशति (dáśati, “to bite”) and Albanian dang (“bite, nip”).

From Cantonese 堂 (tong4).

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ունելի (uneli) — tool
• Armenian: աքցան (akʻcʻan) — tool
• Bhojpuri: चिमटा (ciməṭā) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉗子 /钳子 (qiánzi) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 夾具 /夹具 (jiājù) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋏子 /铗子 (jiāzi) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 夹子 (jiāzi, jiázi) — tool
• Czech: kleště — tool
• Dutch: tang — tool
• Finnish: pihdit — tool
• French: pince — tool
• Galician: tenaces — tool
• German: Greifzange — tool
• Hindi: चिमटा (cimṭā) — tool
• Hungarian: fogó — tool
• Italian: pinza — tool
• Italian: tenaglia — tool
• Italian: molla — tool
• Japanese: トング (tongu) — tool
• Northern Kurdish: kêlbetan — tool
• Macedonian: маша (maša) — tool
• Middle English: tonge — tool
• Polish: obcęgi — tool
• Portuguese: tenaz — tool
• Romanian: clește — tool
• Russian: ками́нные щипцы́ (kamínnyje ščipcý) — tool
• Spanish: tenaza — tool
• Swedish: tång — tool
• Swedish: eldtång — tool
• Thai: คีม (kiim) — tool
• Turkish: maşa — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: ماشه (maşa) — tool
• Vietnamese: kìm — tool
• Vietnamese: kẹp — tool
• Chinese Cantonese: 堂 (tong4) — secret society
• Chinese Mandarin: 幫會 /帮会 (bānghuì) — secret society
• Chinese Mandarin: 堂 (táng) — secret society
• French: tong — secret society
• German: Tong — secret society
• Northern Kurdish: tong — secret society
• Polish: tong — secret society
• Armenian: ունելի օգտագործել (uneli ōgtagorcel) — to use tongs
• Armenian: աքցան օգտագործել (akʻcʻan ōgtagorcel) — to use tongs
• Chinese Mandarin: 鉗起 /钳起 — to use tongs
• Chinese Mandarin: 夾起 /夹起 — to use tongs
• French: pincer — to use tongs
• German: mit einer Zange halten — to use tongs
• Italian: pinzare — to use tongs
• Italian: attanagliare — to use tongs
• Polish: używać obcęgów — to use tongs
• Polish: użyć obcęgów — to use tongs
• Portuguese: atazanar — to use tongs
• Portuguese: atanazar — to use tongs
• Portuguese: atenazar — to use tongs
• Russian: испо́льзовать щипцы́ (ispólʹzovatʹ ščipcý) — to use tongs
• Spanish: usar tenaza — to use tongs
• Vietnamese: dùng kìm — to use tongs
• Vietnamese: dùng kẹp — to use tongs
• Armenian: ունելիով վերցնել (uneliov vercʻnel) — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Armenian: աքցանով վերցնել (akʻcʻanov vercʻnel) — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Chinese Mandarin: 钳起 — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• French: pincer — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• German: mit einer Zange greifen — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Italian: afferrare — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Italian: attanagliare — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Italian: abbrancare — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Italian: aggranfiare — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Polish: łapać obcęgami — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Polish: złapać obcęgami — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Portuguese: atazanar — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Portuguese: atanazar — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Portuguese: atenazar — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Russian: захвати́ть щипца́ми (zaxvatítʹ ščipcámi) — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Spanish: usar tenaza — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs
• Vietnamese: kẹp — to grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs