piercing

See also: Piercing

English

Etymology

From pierce +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪɹsɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪəsɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)sɪŋ
• Hyphenation: piercing

Verb

piercing

1. present participle and gerund of pierce

Noun

piercing (countable and uncountable, plural piercings)

A Dinka woman wearing several piercings.

1. gerund of pierce
3. A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it.

   ear piercing

5. An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (sense 2).

Derived terms

• body piercing
• daith piercing
• industrial piercing
• lip piercing
• Madonna piercing
• Medusa piercing
• Monroe piercing
• piercing gun
• septum piercing

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: pírcing
• → French: piercing
• → German: Piercing
• → Portuguese: piercing, pírcingue (Portugal)
• → Spanish: pirsin

Translations

hole for jewelry

• Armenian: թորիծ (hy) (tʻoric)
• Catalan: pírcing (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺穿 (zh) (cìchuān), 穿洞 (zh) (chuāndòng), 沖孔／冲孔 (chōngkǒng)

• Dutch: piercing (nl) c
• Finnish: lävistys (fi)
• French: piercing (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Piercing (de) n
• Italian: foro (it) m
• Japanese: ピアスホール (piasu hōru)
• Polish: piercing (pl) m
• Portuguese: piercing m, pírcingue m
• Russian: пи́рсинг (ru) m (pírsing), прока́лывание (ru) n (prokályvanije)
• Spanish: pirsin (es) m, perforación (es) f
• Swedish: piercing (sv) c
• Turkish: pirsing (tr)

the jewelry itself

• Bulgarian: пирсинг m (pirsing)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: lävistys (fi)
• French: piercing (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: piercing (it) m
• Japanese: ピアス (ja) (piasu)
• Portuguese: pírcingue m, piercing m
• Spanish: pirsin (es) m
• Turkish: pirsing (tr), hızma (tr)

Adjective

piercing (comparative more piercing, superlative most piercing)

1. Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating.

   piercing eyes

2. Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter.
3. Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill.

   The piercing noise of the children could be heard two blocks from the elementary school.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 155:

     In the meantime the saw was stopped and two of the men began filing and sharpening the blades, which produced such a piercing sound that it went through bone and marrow.

Derived terms

• armour-piercing, armor-piercing
• ear-piercing

Translations

appearing to look deeply into; penetrating

• Bulgarian: проницателен (bg) (pronicatelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尖利 (zh) (jiānlì)

• Finnish: läpitunkeva
• German: durchdringend (de), stechend (de)
• Italian: pungente (it), penetrante (it)
• Latin: penetrālis
• Spanish: punzante (es)

of temperature - extremely cold

• Bulgarian: пронизващ (bg) (pronizvašt)
• German: beißend (de)
• Italian: penetrante (it)
• Maori: kōtaratara

of sound - shrill

• Belarusian: прані́злівы (pranízlivy), прарэзлівы (prarezlivy)
• Bulgarian: пронизителен (bg) (pronizitelen)
• German: durchdringend (de), schrill (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὀξύφωνος (oxúphōnos)

• Latin: strīdulus
• Maori: tīkākā, tīwharawhara

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: akretona
• French: perçant (fr)
• Maori: mākinakina
• Norman: pèrchant
• Russian: пронзи́тельный (ru) (pronzítelʹnyj)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English piercing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːr.sɪŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pier‧cing

Noun

piercing m (plural piercings, diminutive piercinkje n)

1. piercing (ornament)

Derived terms

• lippiercing
• navelpiercing
• neuspiercing
• tepelpiercing
• wenkbrauwpiercing

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English piercing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.siŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

piercing m (plural piercings)

1. a piercing

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English piercing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpir.sinɡ/, /ˈpir.sin/
• Rhymes: -irsinɡ, -irsin
• Hyphenation: pìer‧cing

Noun

piercing m (invariable)

1. piercing (jewellery worn through a hole in the skin or tongue)

Anagrams

• ciprigne, precingi

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English piercing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpir.siŋk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -irsiŋk
• Syllabification: pier‧cing

Noun

piercing m inan

1. piercing (jewellery worn through a hole in the skin or tongue)

Declension

Declension of piercing

	singular
nominative	piercing
genitive	piercingu
dative	piercingowi
accusative	piercing
instrumental	piercingiem
locative	piercingu
vocative	piercingu

Further reading

• piercing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• piercing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pírcingue (Portugal)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English piercing.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʁ.sĩ/ [ˈpih.sĩ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʁ.sĩ/ [ˈpih.sĩ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾ.sĩ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʁ.sĩ/ [ˈpiχ.sĩ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpiɻ.sĩ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾ.sĩɡ/

• Homophone: pírcingue (Portugal)

Noun

piercing m (plural piercings)

1. piercing (hole for jewelry)
2. piercing (the jewelry itself)
   • 1999 March, Zeca Baleiro (lyrics and music), “Piercing” (0:19 from the start), in Vô Imbolá ft. Faces do Subúrbio, Rio de Janeiro: MZA Music:

     Tire o seu piercing do caminho / Que eu quero passar / Quero passar, com a minha dor

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2002, “Documento Trololó – Sadomasoquistas”, in Hermes e Renato‎^[1], spoken by Josue (Marco Antônio Alves), São Paulo, via MTV Brasil:

     Eu comecei com um piercingzinho na orelha, né, que na época não era nem piercing, era brinco na orelha. E aí aderi à moda, cara, virou não só moda mas um prazer, né, que a dor do piercing me proporcionava. Hoje em dia eu tenho piercing pelo corpo inteiro, eu sou viciado em piercing. Eu posso te dizer que eu sou viciado em piercing.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pirsin

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English piercing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾsin/ [ˈpiɾ.sĩn]
• Rhymes: -iɾsin

Noun

piercing m (plural piercings)

1. piercing

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English piercing.

En ung man med piercingar
A young man with piercings

Noun

piercing c

1. piercing (body art)

Declension

Declension of piercing

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	piercing	piercings
	definite	piercingen	piercingens
plural	indefinite	piercingar	piercingars
	definite	piercingarna	piercingarnas

Derived terms

• ansiktspiercing
• kroppspiercing

Turkish

Etymology

From English piercing.

Noun

piercing (definite accusative piercingi, plural piercingler)

1. piercing

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “piercing”, in Nişanyan Sözlük