siring

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ

siring

1. present participle and gerund of sire

siring (plural sirings)

1. An act of procreation, especially between animals.
   • 1972, Animal behavior monographs, volume 5, page 94:

     As the gestation length of horses and ponies is on average 336 days with a range of 315 to 365 days (Rossdale 1967), foals resulting from late May and early June sirings would be born throughout May the following year.

• Rising, rising

Compare Minangkabau siriang (“border, edge”).

siring

1. edge

• Sabah Malay: siring

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾiŋ/ [ˈsi.ɾiŋ]
• Hyphenation: si‧ring

síring (plural siriring, Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜍᜒᜅ᜔)

1. similar; like

   Synonyms: arog, agid, pareho

síring (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜍᜒᜅ᜔)

1. such as

   Synonym: arog

síring (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜍᜒᜅ᜔)

1. resemble, likening

   Synonym: arog

2. mimicry, imitation, apeing

   Synonym: arog-arog

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsiriŋ/ [ˈsi.rɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -iriŋ
• Syllabification: si‧ring

Inherited from Malay siring (“rattan shrimp-net”).

siring (plural siring-siring)

1. rattan scoop for catching small fish, crustacean, etc

Borrowed from Minangkabau siriang. Compare Brunei Malay siring (“edge”).

siring (plural siring-siring)

1. border, edge (of cloth)

   Synonym: tepi

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siring (plural siring-siring)

1. gutter, drain, ditch

   Synonyms: got, selokan

2. (chiefly Sumatra) irrigation

   Synonyms: irigasi, pengairan

3. under the stilt house

Inherited from Malay [Term?] (Bangka dialect). Compare Perak Malay siring (“wrapper of torch”).

siring (plural siring-siring)

1. torch made of resin wood

Internationalism, from Latin sȳrinx (“reed; reed pipe, panpipes”), from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “panpipes; pipe-shaped object”), from Pre-Greek.

siring (plural siring-siring)

1. (ornithology) syrinx

• “siring”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiriŋ/ [ˈsi.riŋ]

siring (Jawi spelling سيريڠ, plural siring-siring or siring²)

1. shrimp-net made of rattan

• Indonesian: siring

siring (Jawi spelling سيريڠ, plural siring-siring or siring²)

1. (Perak) wrapper of torch
2. (Bangka) torch made of resin wood

• Indonesian: siring

• "siring" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Brunei Malay siring (“edge”).

siring

1. edge