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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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paling

  1. present participle and gerund of pale
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale +‎ -ing.

Noun

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paling (plural palings)

  1. A pointed stick used to make a fence.
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 20, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 117:
      The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
    • 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 6, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, published 2014:
      The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.
  2. A fence made of palings.
    • 1789, Alderman Le MesurierJohn Le Mesurier (Alderney), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,Hansard London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,[3]
      Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
      The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
    • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎[4]:
      The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any palings, and with marble-paved walks.
  3. (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.[1]
    • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas‎[5], London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118:
      He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.
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Translations
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References

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  1. ^ Richard Allsopp and Jeannette Allsop (eds.) Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, University of the West Indies Press, 2003.[1]

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch paling, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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paling (plural palings, diminutive palinkie)

  1. eel

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Betawi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Balinese paling.[1]

Adverb

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paling

  1. most

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Descendants

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  • → Malay: paling
    • Indonesian: paling

References

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  1. ^ Tom G. Hoogervorst (2025), “Nieuwe Woordenschat: Lessons from an 18th-century triglot language manual”, in Indonesia and the Malay World, volume 53, number 156, →DOI, page 96

Further reading

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  • Batten, C. J. (1868), “Paling”, in De djoeroe basa Betawi: Eenvoudige Bataviaasch-Maleische woordenverzameling [The Betawi translator: A simple Batavian-Malay word collection] (in Dutch), Batavia: H. M. van Dorp, page 117
  • Von de Wall, H. (1880), “ڤالڠ”, in Maleisch-Nederlandsch woordenboek [Malay-Dutch dictionary] (in Dutch), volume II, Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, page 396
  • Kähler, H. (1966), “pāling”, in Wörterverzeichnis des Omong Djakarta [Glossary of the Jakartan speech] (in German), Berlin: Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, page 178
  • Chaer, A. (2009) [1976], “paling”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 331

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch palinc, padelinc, paeldinc, from Old Dutch paelding, paleding, palezinc. The original form seems to be *palathing (attested in the placename Palathingadīc) or, as some sources prefer, *pathaling. This has no cognates outside Dutch and probably goes back to a substrate language. As the oldest attestation is (latinised) palengus, one could alternatively see the -th- as excrescent and thus derived the word from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”) after the fish's shape. While this is less likely, the distinction sometimes made between aal (“juvenile eel”) and paling (“large, adult eel”) may indeed have been influenced by association with paal.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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paling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)

  1. eel
    Synonym: aal

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Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Malay paling or directly from Betawi paling, from Balinese paling.[1]

Adverb

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paling

  1. most
    paling cantik ― most pretty

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Malay paling, from Proto-Malayic *paliŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paliŋ. Compare with Tagalog paling.

Verb

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paling

  1. (used only in derivations) to spin
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References

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  1. ^ Tom G. Hoogervorst (2025), “Nieuwe Woordenschat: Lessons from an 18th-century triglot language manual”, in Indonesia and the Malay World, volume 53, number 156, →DOI, page 96

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Malay

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Betawi paling, from Balinese paling.[1]

Adverb

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paling (Jawi spelling ڤاليڠ)

  1. most (superlative comparative)
    Synonyms: ter-, terpaling (slang)
    paling laju ― fastest (lit. most fast)
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayic *paliŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paliŋ. Compare with Tagalog paling.

Verb

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paling (Jawi spelling ڤاليڠ)

  1. to turn (make a non-linear physical movement)
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References

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  1. ^ Tom G. Hoogervorst (2025), “Nieuwe Woordenschat: Lessons from an 18th-century triglot language manual”, in Indonesia and the Malay World, volume 53, number 156, →DOI, page 96

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paliŋ.

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    paling (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜅ᜔)

    1. turn, inclination of the head
      Synonyms: baling, kiling, hilig, pagtagilid, pagpihit

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    Adjective

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    palíng (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜅ᜔)

    1. inclined sideward
      Synonym: tagilid

    Further reading

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    • “paling”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
    • “paling”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paliŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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    West Makian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Indonesian paling.

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    Adverb

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    paling

    1. very much

    Usage notes

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    Precedes the verb it modifies.

    References

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    • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[6], Pacific linguistics
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