teng

teng

1. Nonstandard spelling of tēng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of téng.

• 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.

From Proto-Iranian *tánuš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tánuš, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us.

• Rhymes: -ɛŋɡ

teng

1. narrow, not wide

• (Northern) IPA^(key): /tɛŋ/
• (Kitti) IPA^(key): /tɔŋ/

teng

1. tight, taut

teng

1. equal

• IPA^(key): /t̪eŋ/

teng

1. (intransitive) to say
2. (transitive) to say

teng

1. that which someone has said, word, news

   dabaso teng ― I have heard word; I have heard (people) say

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

Related to Persian تنگ (tang)

teng

1. narrow

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