heng

See also: Heng, héng, hèng, hēng, and heng'

English

Etymology 1

Blend of h +‎ eng.

Noun

heng (plural hengs)

1. The character ꜧ, combining an h and an eng, which stands for the hypothetical phoneme in English that includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones.

Derived terms

• hooktop heng

Etymology 2

From Hokkien 幸 (hēng, “fortunate”) or Teochew 興 / 兴 (hêng¹, “fortunate”).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /heŋ/

Adjective

heng (comparative more heng, superlative most heng)

1. (Manglish, Singlish) Fortunate, lucky.
   • 2015 June 24, @BurgerBing, Twitter‎^[1]:

     Damn heng... The bus tire puncture right before my stop. Bad luck everyone else though.

   • 2018, Jean Tay, Sisters & Senang: The Island Plays, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Scene 12, page 73:

     But Sunny very heng [lucky]... No damage on the driver's side.

   • 2022 April 26, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:

     Most Heng is join few month before June 2021. Your pay got adjusted to $4900 with all the new joiners in June + got 5k bonus.

Derived terms

• heng ah

Anagrams

• Engh, Ngeh, ENHG

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “surely related to hangen and En hinge”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ

• Audio:

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Noun

heng f (plural hengen)

1. moving leaf of a hinge, affixed to the moving part

Coordinate terms

• duim

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From English hand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛŋ/
• Hyphenation: hèng

Verb

heng

1. (colloquial, sports, soccer) handball, the offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or hands on the field during play.

Etymology 2

From English hang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛŋ/
• Hyphenation: hèng

Adjective

heng

1. (colloquial, computing) hang, an instance of ceasing to respond.

Further reading

• “heng” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

Noun

heng

1. soul

Mandarin

Romanization

heng

1. Nonstandard spelling of hēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of héng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hèng.

Usage notes

• 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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

heng

1. imperative of henge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

heng

1. imperative of hengja

Etymology 2

Verb

heng

1. inflection of henga:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Old English

Verb

hēng

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of hōn

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *henki.

Noun

heng

1. soul
2. spirit
3. personality, character
4. person, personage

Inflection

Inflection of heng (inflection type 3/kivi)
nominative sing.	heng
genitive sing.	hengen
partitive sing.	henged
partitive plur.	hengid
	singular	plural
nominative	heng	henged
accusative	hengen	henged
genitive	hengen	hengiden
partitive	henged	hengid
essive-instructive	hengen	hengin
translative	hengeks	hengikš
inessive	henges	hengiš
elative	hengespäi	hengišpäi
illative	hengehe	hengihe
adessive	hengel	hengil
ablative	hengelpäi	hengilpäi
allative	hengele	hengile
abessive	hengeta	hengita
comitative	hengenke	hengidenke
prolative	hengedme	hengidme
approximative I	hengenno	hengidenno
approximative II	hengennoks	hengidennoks
egressive	hengennopäi	hengidennopäi
terminative I	hengehesai	hengihesai
terminative II	hengelesai	hengilesai
terminative III	hengessai	—
additive I	hengehepäi	hengihepäi
additive II	hengelepäi	hengilepäi

Derived terms

• üks'heng
• hengenahtištuz
• hengenkaičii
• hengenpoltand
• hengentäptuz

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “герой, дух, душа, персона, персонаж”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *χiəŋᴬ; cognate with Thai เขียง (kǐiang), Northern Thai ᨡ᩠ᨿᨦ, Lao ຂຽງ (khīang), Khün ᨡ᩠ᨿᨦ, Lü ᦵᦃᧂ (ẋeng), Shan ၶဵင် (khǎeng), Tai Nüa ᥑᥥᥒᥴ (xéng).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /heːŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: heng¹
• Hyphenation: heng

Noun

heng (Sawndip forms 𱣒 or ⿱行口 or 梈 or ⿰石杏 or ⿰石𪥌 or 𮀖, 1957–1982 spelling heŋ)

1. chopping board