singe

From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

singe (third-person singular simple present singes, present participle singeing, simple past and past participle singed)

1. (transitive) To burn slightly.
   • 1702, Sir Roger L’Estrange, “The First Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſest”, in The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas'‎^[21]:

     made combustible by Flame They treat of, we have pretty Game, For they their own Tail Singe, to save Us

2. (transitive) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
3. (transitive) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.

• scorch

• singe one's wings

singe (plural singes)

1. A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

singe (third-person singular simple present singes, present participle singing, simple past sange, past participle sunge)

1. Obsolete form of sing.
   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], →OCLC, Judith xvj:[1–2], folio xxix, verso:

     Then ſange Iudith this ſonge vnto the LORDE: Begynne vnto the LORDE vpon the tabrettes, ſinge vnto the LORDE vpon the cymbals.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:

     Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, / As time her taught in lowly Sheapards weeds, / Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets ſterne to change mine oaten reeds, / And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds […]

   • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:

     [H]ere’s a couple of Syrenicall raſcals ſhall inchaunt yee: What ſhall they ſinge my good Lorde?

• “singe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Giens, Gines, Niges, Signe, gines, segni, sengi

Compare German singen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋə/

singe (third-person singular simple present singt, past participle gsunge, auxiliary haa)

1. to sing

• umesinge

• Gsang
• Sänger

Inherited from Middle French singe, from Old French singe, inherited from Latin sīmius.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃ʒ/

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singe m (plural singes)

1. monkey

   Synonym: (Louisiana) macaque m

2. ape
3. (derogatory) foolish or mischievous man
4. (derogatory) shrewd man

   Synonym: renard

   Ne laisse personne entrer dans cette pièce, surtout ce singe-ci.

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5. (slang) hierarchical superior

   ― Allons voir le vieux singe ! soupira Maigret, qui n’avait jamais pu sentir le juge Coméliau.

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• simiesque

• guenon f

• “singe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• geins, ignés, signe, signé

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪŋə/

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singe

1. inflection of singen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋə/

singe

1. to sing

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

singe

1. Alternative form of singen

From Latin sīmius.

singe oblique singular, m (oblique plural singes, nominative singular singes, nominative plural singe)

1. monkey (animal)

• French: singe
• Norman: sînge (Jersey)
• Walloon: séndje

Compare German singen, Dutch zingen, English sing, Swedish sjunga.

singe

1. to sing

singe

1. to sing

• Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)

From Ottoman Turkish سونگو (süngü).

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singe (n class, plural singe)

1. bayonet