From en.wiktionary.org:
[Paling]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], equivalent to [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A pointed stick used to make a fence. [en]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1969 | author=w:Maya Angelou | title=w:I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | url=https://archive.org/details/iknowwhycagedbi000maya | chapter=20 | page=117 | publisher=Bantam | year_published=1971 | location=New York
|passage=The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with PAILINGS snatched
from a fence [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1997 | author=w:Richard Flanagan | title= [The Sound of One Hand Clapping (novel)] | chapterurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=lj09BAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false | chapter=6 | publisher=Grove Press | year_published=2014 | location=New York
|passage=The smell of the damp eucalypt PALINGS that clad the walls exhaling
their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle
burning in the fireplace.}}
1. A fence made of palings.
2. * 1789 , Alderman Le Mesurier <sup> [John Le Mesurier (Alderney)] </sup> , addressing the [House of Commons of the United Kingdom] , in _The Parliamentary Register_ , <sup> [Hansard] </sup> London: [John Debrett] , Volume 26, p. 172, <sup> see https://archive.org/details/parliamentaryre44britgoog </sup>
3. *: Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their PALINGS and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.
4. * [12]
5. * [passage=The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any PALINGS , and with marble-paved walks.]
6.. [en] A fence made of galvanized sheeting . [1]
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1961 | author=w:V. S. Naipaul | title=w:A House for Mr Biswas | location=London | publisher=André Deutsch | section=Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149342
|passage=He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron
PALING. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow
and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.}}
***** Alternative forms
- [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[stick]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[fence]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. Richard Allsopp and Jeannette Allsop (eds.) _Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage_ , University of the West Indies Press, 2003. <sup> see https://books.google.ca/books?id=PmvSk13sIc0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false </sup>
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Afrikaans
*** Etymology
From [af], from [af], from [af].
*** Pronunciation
- [af]
- [af]
- [af]
- [af]
*** Noun
[s]
1. eel
**** Synonyms
{{col|af |aal }}
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], [dum], [dum], from [nl], [odt], [odt]. The original form seems to
be [odt] (attested in the placename [odt]) or, as some sources prefer, [odt].
This has no cognates outside Dutch and probably goes back to a substrate
language. As the oldest attestation is (latinised) [la], one could
alternatively see the _-th-_ as excrescent and thus derived the word from [nl]
after the fish's shape.<!-- De Vries in NEW --> While this is less likely, the
distinction sometimes made between [nl] and [nl] may indeed have been
influenced by association with [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. eel
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |de paling inpakken |palingsound |paling steken |palingvisser
|palingvisserij |peilingen zijn palingen }}
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [brc]
- [dcr]
- [pap] [dated]
[nl]
** Indonesian
*** Pronunciation
[id-pr]
*** Etymology 1
[id].
**** Adverb
[id]
1. most
*** Etymology 2
[id], from [id], from [id]. Compare with [tl].
**** Verb
[id]
1. [id] to spin
***** Derived terms
{{col|id |berpaling |palingan |palingkan }}
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
[id]
** Malay
*** Pronunciation
[paleng]
- [ms]
[a=Riau-Lingga]
- [ms]
*** Noun
[ms]
1. majority
**** Synonyms
- [ms]
*** Adjective
[j=ڤاليڠ]
1. top ; greatest , super
2. mainstream
*** Adverb
[j=ڤاليڠ]
1. most , very
**** Synonyms
- [ms]
- [ms]
**** Descendants
- [id]
*** Further reading
- [R:PRPM]
[ms]
** Tagalog
*** Etymology
From [tl].
*** Pronunciation
[+< n^>]
*** Noun
[b=+]
1. turn , inclination of the head
**** Derived terms
[tl]
*** Adjective
[palíng]
1. incline d sideward
*** Further reading
- [R:KWF Diksiyonaryo]
- [R:Pambansang Diksiyonaryo]
- [paliŋ]
*** Anagrams
- [tl]
** West Makian
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [mqs].
*** Pronunciation
- [mqs]
*** Adverb
[mqs]
1. very much
**** Usage notes
Precedes the verb it modifies.
*** References
- [R:mqs:Voorhoeve:1982]