cung

• çung, cënuk, sung, qungj

Cognate to Italian cionco, Romanian ciung, Hungarian csonka, although the relation to the Italian and Hungarian words is considered blurry by some. Alternatively, from a variant of cuk which is also present in kacuk.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡suŋ/

cung (feminine cunge)

1. missing a limb
2. missing a tail, horn, or wing

• cungel

cung m (plural cungje, definite cungu, definite plural cungjet)

1. tree stump
2. grapevine pruned of its twigs

   Synonym: hardhi

3. stump of amputated limb (arm, leg)
4. (Cham) gum, edentulate jaw

   Synonyms: trysë, cungë

5. (Arvanitika) baby’s toothless gum
6. (Arbëresh) piece

   Synonym: copë

• (tree stump): kërcu
• (tree stump): cumër
• (tree stump): kërçep
• (tree stump): kucër

cung (regional, Pukë region)

1. around, very close, almost

   Synonym: cok

   është cung 70 vjeç ― he's 70 years old, give or take

• → Greek: τσούγγος (tsoúngos, “muley, polled bull”)
• → Greek: τσιούγγους (tsioúngous, “muley, polled bull”)

• “cung”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Clipping of cucung (“grandchild”).

cung

1. vocative of cucung (“grandchild”)

Borrowed from Javanese (dialectal) cung, encung (“aubergine”), from Old Javanese cuṅ (“a kind of aubergine”), ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₁rɗuŋ; *d₁rɗuəŋ (“eggplant, bottle-gourd”). Compare Malay terung and Lampung Api tiyung.

cung

1. aubergine, brinjal, eggplant

• H. U. A. Zulkifly (2007), “CUNG”, in Kamus sederhana bahasa Palembang [A simple dictionary of the Palembang language], 2nd edition (in Indonesian), Tangerang: DPC Kerukunan Keluarga Palembang, page 55

cung (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜅ᜔)

1. obsolete spelling of kung

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 宮.

cung

1. a palace

   cung/nhà văn hoá

   a palace/house of culture; a clubhouse

2. (astrology) a sign

   12 cung hoàng đạo

   the 12 zodiac signs

Sino-Vietnamese word from 宮.^[1]

cung

1. the first note in the classic pentatonic scale.^[2]

• ngũ âm
• ngũ cung

Sino-Vietnamese word from 弓. Doublet of cong.

Attested as Northern Middle Vietnamese cu᷃ in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lustinaum et Latinum (1651).

(classifier cây) cung

1. (archery) bow

cung

1. (geometry) arc

• tên
• nỏ

Sino-Vietnamese word from 供 (“to supply”).

cung

1. (economics) supply

• cầu (“demand”)

From Middle High German zunge.

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cung f

1. (anatomy) tongue

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕuŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cung¹
• Hyphenation: cung

From Chinese 鐘 (MC tsyowng).

cung (1957–1982 spelling cuŋ)

1. bell
2. clock

From Chinese 盅 (MC tsyowng).

cung (1957–1982 spelling cuŋ)

1. handleless cup

cung (1957–1982 spelling cuŋ)

1. cup of; cupful of

From Chinese 衝 (MC tsyhowng).

cung (1957–1982 spelling cuŋ)

1. to charge; to attack

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 沖?”)

cung (1957–1982 spelling cuŋ)

1. to mix; to blend; to add into