singe

From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-Germanic *sangijaną (“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/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

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

1. (transitive) To burn slightly.
   • L'Estrange

     I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.

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 in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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

Inherited from Latin sīmius.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃ʒ/

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singe m (plural singes)

1. monkey
2. ape

• (monkey): (Louisiana) macaque m

• singer
• singerie

• simiesque

• “singe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• geins, ignés, signe, signé

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪŋə/

singe

1. First-person singular present of singen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of singen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of singen.
4. Imperative singular of singen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiŋə/

singe

1. to sing

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Latin sīmius.

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

1. monkey (animal)

• French: singe
• Norman: sînge (Jersey)

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).

singe (n class, plural singe)

1. bayonet