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• (UK) IPA(key): /dɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA(key): /dɔŋ/
  • (cot_–_caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 / 铜 (tóng, “copper”).

• đồng (uncommon)

dong (plural **dong or dongs)

1. The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫
2. (historical) The currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ.

currency of Vietnam

• Arabic: دُونْغ m (dunḡ), دُونْج m (dong)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 盾 (zh) (dùn), 越南盾 (zh) (Yuènán dùn), 越盾 (yuèdùn)
• French: dong (fr) m
• German: Dong m
• Greek: ντονγκ (ntongk)
• Hindi: दोंग (doṅg)
• Hungarian: đồng (hu)
• Japanese: ドン (ja) (don)
• Khmer: ដុង (km) (dong)
• Korean: 동(銅) (ko) (dong)
• Lao: ດົ່ງ (dong)
• Malay: dong (ms)
• Portuguese: dong m
• Russian: донг (ru) m (dong)
• Thai: ด่ง (dòng)
• Vietnamese: đồng (vi) (銅 (vi))

currency of South Vietnam

• Portuguese: dong
• Vietnamese: đồng (vi) (銅 (vi))

Unknown. Perhaps suggested by dingus and other names for unnamable objects; perhaps suggesting of a sound of striking (perhaps the clapper of a bell; compare ding-dong); perhaps there is an element of donkey in it. First attested in the 1890s.[1]

dong (plural dongs) (originally US)

1. (slang) The penis.
   • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 344:
     "That American girl was after you too, wasn't she?"
     "She didn't mean anything she said. She was just after your dong. But it's mine."
     "For sure, Mary."
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, page 18:
     Nevertheless, I was wholly incapable of keeping my paws from my dong once it started the climb up my belly.
2. (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.
3. (slang) A fool.

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

• dongless

• double dong

• ding-dong

Onomatopoeic.

dong (plural dongs)

1. A low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch — see also ding dong

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 噹 / 当 (zh) (dāng)
• Russian: дон (ru) (don)

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

1. To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.

From Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”).

dong (plural dongs)

1. A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.

• dai pai dong (etymologically unrelated)
• dong quai (etymologically unrelated)

1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “dong (n.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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• Gond

Syncope of dorang.

dong

1. they

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998), Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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dong

1. down

Borrowed from French donc (“therefore, thus”).[1]

• IPA(key): /dɔŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ
• Hyphenation: dong

dong

1. please (used to make a request or suggestion)
   • 1969, Ali Sabeni, Suhaeri Mufti, “Sabeni Djago Tanah Abang [Sabeni the Tanah Abang Hero]”, in Sabeni Djago Tanah Abang‎[2], performed by Suhaeri Mufti, Jakarta: Diastar, track A1:
     Bagus, lèmpar kaki sebelè. Sabet ke kanan. Deser terus! Tarik lagi! Adu, jangan kaya' orang jantungan, dong!
     Nice, widen your stance to the side. Strike to the right. Keep going! Pull again! Oh dear, please don't move like you suffer from heart attack!
2. then (used to contradict an assertion)

• → Indonesian: dong

1. ^ Hardini, T. H.; Grangé, P. (2016), “An overview of Indonesian loanwords from French”, in Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, pages 164–165

• Kähler, H. (1966), “dong”, in Wörterverzeichnis des Omong Djakarta [Glossary of the Jakartan speech] (in German), Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, page 48
• Chaer, A. (2009) [1976], “dong”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 107

Clipping of dodong.

• IPA(key): /ˈdoŋ/ [ˈd̪oŋ]
• Hyphenation: day

dong (Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜅ᜔)

1. (colloquial) common term of address to a boy

• IPA(key): /dɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dungō. Cognate to English dung.

dong m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure
   Synonym: mest

• Negerhollands: doeng

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng.

dong m (plural dongs, no diminutive)

1. dong, the currency of Vietnam

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dong

1. singular past indicative of dingen

Hamer-Banna numbers (edit)

| | 50 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | ----------------------------------- | | ← 4 | 5 | 6 → | | Cardinal: dong Ordinal: dónso | | |

• IPA(key): /dónɡ/, [dóŋɡ]

dong

1. five (cardinal number)

• Petrollino, Sara (2016), A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎[3], Leiden University
• IPA(key): [ˈdoŋɡ]
• Rhymes: -oŋɡ
• Homophone: đồng

From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).[1]

dong

1. (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
2. (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)

or

• dongás
• dongó

(With verbal prefixes):

• körüldong

See đồng.

dong

1. nonstandard form of đồng (“dong”, the currency of Vietnam; usually used by thousands or higher denominations)[2]

2. ^ dong in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

3. ^ Section 212 in A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN

• dong in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• dong in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).
• IPA(key): /ˈdɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: dong
• Rhymes: -dɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

From Betawi dong, from French donc (“therefore, thus”).[1]

dong

1. (colloquial) please: used to make a polite request
   Harga Bensin Pertalite Jangan Naik Dong. ― Please, don't raise the Pertalite Petrol Price.
2. (colloquial) indicates a strong command
3. (colloquial) indicates discord between words and actions

• donk

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duwng, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 / 铜 (tóng, “copper”).

dong

1. the currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

2. ^ Hardini, T. H.; Grangé, P. (2016), “An overview of Indonesian loanwords from French”, in Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, pages 164–165

• “dong”, 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

Derived from English down. Compare Belizean Creole dong.

dong

1. down
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 7:15:
     So Jiekob imself go dong a Iijip, an im an wi faada faada dem liv dong de til dem ded.
     So Jacob went down to Egypt where he and our fathers lived til they died.

• dong at majstro.com

dong

1. nonstandard spelling of dōng
2. nonstandard spelling of dǒng
3. nonstandard spelling of dòng

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

dong

1. alternative form of donge (“dung”)

North Moluccan Malay

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• IPA(key): /dɔŋ/

dong

1. short for dorang

Clipping of kordong, itself possibly a corruption of kondom

dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)

1. (slang) condom

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /dõ.ɡuˈi/ [dõ.ɡʊˈi], /dõˈɡi/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /dõˈɡi/

• Hyphenation: dong

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency of Vietnam)

• “dong”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French dong.

dong m (plural dongi)

1. dong (currency)

• dong in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

dong m (plural dongs)

1. dong (currency)

• (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA(key): [jawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [jɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA(key): [jawŋ͡m˧˧]

dong • (𢫝)

1. to drive; to escort

Attested as deaong in the Flora Cochinchinensis (1790, "Flora of Cochinchina").

(classifier cây) dong • (容)

1. Phrynium placentarium

• IPA(key): [dòŋ]
• Hyphenation: dong

dòng (stem II dòh)

1. (transitive) to ask

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 82
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63

dong

1. cubit

dong

1. to poke, to prick

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎[4]