daing

English

Daing na bangus

Etymology

From Tagalog daing.

Noun

daing (uncountable)

1. (Philippines) Dried fish, usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun- and air-dried.
   • 1991, Ani, volume 5, Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     […] (including drugstores, even if one could pay; food could be had only through the generosity of kindly neighbors, if one was caught flatfooted without a single can of sardines or a handful of daing).

   • 2014 September 11, Phil Vettel, “Seriously fun: Laughing Bird is a low-key introduction to Filipino flavors”, in Chicago Tribune, 167th year, number 254, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 5, page 5, column 1:

     Trout is done daing-style, marinated in garlic and vinegar, dried and fried, accompanied by garlic fried rice and sweet cherry tomatoes.

   • 2021 February 27, Rebecca King, “Bountiful Bergenfield”, in Daily Record, volume 34, number 92, Rockaway, N.J., →OCLC, page 2D, column 1:

     Cusinera serves stupendous silog (traditional Filipino breakfast, $5.61) — eggs with garlic rice and a protein of your choice, such as daing (crispy dried fish), longaniza (juicy, garlicky pork sausage) and tapa (cured beef steak).

Related terms

• daing na bangus

Further reading

• daing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay daeng.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧ing
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaʔiŋ/ [ˈd̪aː.ʔɪŋ]

Noun

daing

1. butterflied milkfish marinated in calamondin juice, garlic and soy sauce

Verb

daing

1. to prepare a milkfish this way

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay daeng.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧ing
• IPA^(key): /ˈdaʔiŋ/, [ˈdaʔɛŋ]

Noun

daing

1. salted and sundried fish

Descendants

• → Ivatan: daing

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay daing, from Classical Malay داءيڠ (daeng). Doublet of dendeng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈda.ɪŋ]
• Hyphenation: da‧ing

Noun

daing (plural daing-daing)

1. sundried fish or meat

Further reading

• “daing”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ivatan

Etymology

Etymology tree

Malay daengbor.

Ilocano daingbor.

Ivatan daing

Borrowed from Ilocano daing, borrowed from Malay daeng.

Noun

daing

1. fish opened and cleaned of viscera and dried under the sun

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈʔiŋ/ [dʌˈʔi̞ŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: da‧ing

Noun

daíng

1. a kind of song and dance performed on a solemn feast or sacrifice

   Hyponyms: dayyakus, ayugga

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms & variants of daing

Southern / Central
Mt. Province	Tadian	daing, (Banaao, Cadad-anan, Cagubatan, Dacudac, Lenga, Pandayan) daong
Northern / Applai
Mt. Province	Sagada	daing, (Pidlisan) chaing

See also

• amaaman
• dumekadeka
• manbekas
• mandaklas
• mandamgas
• mandoklang
• mansulin
• umpa
• yendalas

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1982), “Kankanay Games: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎^[1], volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, page 104

Keningau Murut

daing

Noun

daing

1. betel leaf

See also

• pinang (“betel nut”)
• kusob (“betel nut”)

References

• Jason William Lobel (2016), North Borneo Sourcebook: Vocabularies and Functors‎^[2], Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, page 78

Malay

Alternative forms

• daeng (dated)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daiŋ/, [ˈda.ɪŋ], [ˈda.eŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ, -eŋ

Noun

daing (Jawi spelling داءيڠ, plural daing-daing)

1. sundried fish or meat

   minta darah pada daing

   to ask for help from a helpless person

   (literally, “to ask blood out of dried fish”)

Descendants

• Indonesian: daing
• → Cebuano: daing
• → Ilocano: daing
  • → Ivatan: daing
• → Tagalog: daing
  • → English: daing

Further reading

• "daing" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "daing" at PRPM first version)

Pangutaran Sama

Noun

daing

1. fish

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• daying — obsolete
• raing, raying — dialectal, Rizal

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay daing.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdaʔiŋ/ [ˈd̪aː.ʔɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -aʔiŋ
• Syllabification: da‧ing

Noun

daing (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜁᜅ᜔)

1. jerked fish
2. jerking of fish

   Synonyms: pagdaing, pagdadaing

Alternative forms

• daeng

Derived terms

• daingin
• dinaing
• dumaing
• ipadaing
• madaing
• magdaing
• pagdadaing
• pagdaing

Descendants

• → English: daing

See also

• bislad
• bitad
• biya
• pindang
• tapa

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Austronesian *daRiŋ

Kapampangan daingbor.

Tagalog daing

Borrowed from Kapampangan daing (“cry in supplication; implore”), from Proto-Austronesian *daRiŋ (“groan; moan”). Expected word would be *daging if inherited.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈʔiŋ/ [d̪ɐˈʔɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: da‧ing

Noun

daíng (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜁᜅ᜔)

1. moan; groan; wail

   Synonyms: taghoy, hinagpis, himutok

2. plaint; complaint; grievance

   Synonyms: reklamo, sakdal, hinakdal

3. humble request or petition; supplication

   Synonyms: pamanhik, pakiusap, samo, luhog

Derived terms

• daing-uwak
• daingan
• dumaing
• hinaing
• idaing
• kahinaingan
• karaingan
• madaingin
• paghihinaing
• paladaing

Further reading

• “daing”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “daing”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte. [Vocabulary of the Tagalog language. Castilian Romance placed first. First, and second parts.]‎^[3] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag. [The noble Villa of Pila, by Tomás Pinpin and Domingo Loag.]
  • page 9: “Abrir) Daying (pp) el peſcado para ſalarlo”
  • page 454: “Orar) Daying (pc) pidiendo algo [ahincadamẽte]”
  • page 471: “Pedir) Daying (pc) rogando alguna coſa”
  • page 535: “Rogar) Daying (pc) pidiendole algo”
  • page 537: “Ruego) Daying (pc) pidiente algo”
• Zorc, David Paul (1982), Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 110
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*daRiŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• ganid