Song

Borrowed from Mandarin 宋 (Sòng).

• Sung (Wade–Giles)
• (Chinese surname): Soong

• enPR: so͝ong

Song

1. (historical) A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
   • 2017 August 29, Sabine Peschel (kbm), “What the Chinese think of German food”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 August 2017, Lifestyle‎^[3]:

     Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal.

   • 2017 October 3, “Bowl sells for Chinese porcelain record $37.7 million: Sotheby's”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 03 October 2017, Live news‎^[5]:

     A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said.
     The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.

   • 2025, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Stars, Near & Far”, in Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century (Science / Astronomy), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90:

     The brightest supernova in your Milky Way galaxy to be visible from Earth was seen and recorded by the Chinese during the Song Dynasty on the 4th of July in A.D. 1054.

2. (historical) A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
3. (historical) The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
4. A surname from Chinese.
5. A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.

• (Chinese rivers): Songjiang, Song Jiang

Song

1. A river in Papua New Guinea.

Song

1. A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.

Derived from Khmer សុង (song).

Song (plural Songs)

1. A surname from Khmer.

Derived from Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng).

• enPR: so͞oʹu̇ng^[1]

Song

1. A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.

• NGOs, NGSO, Ngos, gons, nogs, snog

Borrowed from English song. Doublet of inherited Sang.

• IPA^(key): /sɔŋ/
• IPA^(key): /zɔŋ/ (some speakers; chiefly dated)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Song m (strong, genitive Songs, plural Songs)

1. (colloquial) a song of modern popular music

• Instrumentalsong

• Lied
• Musikstück, Stück

• “Song” in Duden online
• “Song” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache