shengn.¹

/ʃʌŋ/

Forms: Also 1700s– cheng; 1800s sang, sing.

Etymology: < Chinese shēng.

Music.

A Chinese wind instrument consisting of a set of reed pipes.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > pan-pipes

fristelec1400

fretel1480

quill1567

syrinx1606

mouth organ1670

sheng1795

panpipe1805

pandean harmonica1807

pandean pipe1814

shō1888

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Chinese Empire ix. 428 The ancient cheng differed in the number of their pipes; those used at present have only thirteen: this instrument appears to have some affinity with our organs.

1839 Chinese Repository 8 52 The săng..is a collection of tubes varying in length so as to utter sounds at harmonic intervals from each other.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XVI. 579/2 The Sheng or Sing; the lower half of a gourd, in which a row of pipes is fixed, with a curved and lateral one on which the performer blows.

1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. 170 The săng is..the embryo of the organ; it is a hollow conical shaped box, which corresponds to a wind chest, having a mouthpiece on one side, and communicating with thirteen reeds of different lengths inserted in the top.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Cheng, the Chinese organ, which consists of a series of tubes having free reeds.

1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Jan. 41/3 The sheng is assigned by the notation to a certain level of the voice.

1961 J. Howarth in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiii. 321 In 1777,..Père Amiot..sent the present of a sheng from China to Paris.

1972 Liu Jung-en Six Yüan Plays 15 The shêng, consisting of thirteen pipes of different lengths forming a circle each with a finger hole and having a mouthpiece through which the musician blows and sucks.

1973 Times 11 June 14/2 The concertina was inspired by the Cheng (Chinese mouth organ).

1980 Early Music 8 355/1 These, the sho of Japan and the sheng of China, are forms of free-reed mouth organ with a rigid wind chest held in the hands, the fingers remaining free to open and close the reeds in the cane pipes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

shengn.²

/ʃʌŋ/

Etymology: < Chinese shēng.

The principal male character in a Chinese opera. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > chief male singer > Chinese

sheng1886

1886 Jrnl. N.-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 208 The characters in Chinese plays are arranged under five denominations... The hero is shêng. He wears a black beard, but his face is not concealed.

1937 L. C. Arlington & H. Acton Famous Chinese Plays p. xxiii Shêng are divided into Wên, Civil, and Wu, Military. These are the leading actors.

1972 C. P. Mackerras Rise of Peking Opera i. 2 There were seven types of actors in the nan-hsi... Some of these terms can still be found..in Peking Opera today. For example, the sheng and tan were—and still are—the principal male and female characters respectively.

1973 R. F. S. Yang in Yuan-li Wu China 74/1 Yen was the founder of the Yen school of the ‘bearded sheng’ voice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

Shengn.³adj.

Brit.

/ʃɛŋ/, U.S.

/ʃɛŋ/, East African English

/ʃeŋ/

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) a borrowing from Swahili. Etymons: Swahili n., English n.; Swahili (Sheng) Sheng.

Etymology: Either (i) < S- (in Swahili n.) + Eng- (in English n.), or (ii) < Swahili (Sheng) Sheng < the same elements. The reason for the change of the initial sound to sh- is unclear.It is uncertain whether the word was originally formed in English or Swahili (Sheng), and it probably emerged in a bilingual context.

A. n.³

A street language blending Swahili with lexical and grammatical elements from English and other languages, originating as part of youth subculture of Nairobi but now also used by people of varying age and social class in urban communities across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

ΚΠ

1985 Standard (Nairobi) 30 Aug. 17/2 Sheng..a mixture of many word symbols but moulded within the Kiswahili and English syntactical framework, and located within a budding culture..should be regarded as a language because it helps people to communicate.

1989 Coastweek (Mombasa) 21 July 14/2 They broke into ‘Sheng’ and started telling Kachumbari what they thought of him.

2003 B. Wainaina in D. Adebayo et al. New Writing 12 120 He told his stories sometimes in Sheng, the version of Swahili that all the cool people spoke.

2015 Kwani? 8 422 It's common to mix up syllables in Sheng—Steven becomes Stevo becomes Vande—but Gonto and his brother are gods of the syllable switch.

B. adj.

Of or belonging to Sheng; characterized by or designating Sheng.

ΚΠ

1987 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. Oxf. 18 128 Manamba is itself a Sheng word, derived from the Swahili prefix ma- and the English word ‘number’, which originally referred to the number of the [taxi-van] service.

1992 Eng. Today Oct. 27/2 Intonationally, Sheng has predominantly adopted the Kiswahili pattern and this can be discerned easily even in the spoken English of Sheng speakers.

1996 R. M. Swiderski Metamorphosis of Eng. vii. 113 The Sheng language of Kenya..is a..redesign of English words according to the criteria of Swahili phonology.

2019 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 22 Apr. Some might not like it that most of his songs have Sheng titles but Moji is actually the kind of Gospel artiste that the Kenyan youth need.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

n.¹1795

n.²1886

n.³adj.1985

单词	sheng
释义	shengn.¹ /ʃʌŋ/ Forms: Also 1700s– cheng; 1800s sang, sing. Etymology: < Chinese shēng. Music. A Chinese wind instrument consisting of a set of reed pipes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > pan-pipes fristelec1400 fretel1480 quill1567 syrinx1606 mouth organ1670 sheng1795 panpipe1805 pandean harmonica1807 pandean pipe1814 shō1888 1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Chinese Empire ix. 428 The ancient cheng differed in the number of their pipes; those used at present have only thirteen: this instrument appears to have some affinity with our organs. 1839 Chinese Repository 8 52 The săng..is a collection of tubes varying in length so as to utter sounds at harmonic intervals from each other. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XVI. 579/2 The Sheng or Sing; the lower half of a gourd, in which a row of pipes is fixed, with a curved and lateral one on which the performer blows. 1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. 170 The săng is..the embryo of the organ; it is a hollow conical shaped box, which corresponds to a wind chest, having a mouthpiece on one side, and communicating with thirteen reeds of different lengths inserted in the top. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms Cheng, the Chinese organ, which consists of a series of tubes having free reeds. 1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Jan. 41/3 The sheng is assigned by the notation to a certain level of the voice. 1961 J. Howarth in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiii. 321 In 1777,..Père Amiot..sent the present of a sheng from China to Paris. 1972 Liu Jung-en Six Yüan Plays 15 The shêng, consisting of thirteen pipes of different lengths forming a circle each with a finger hole and having a mouthpiece through which the musician blows and sucks. 1973 Times 11 June 14/2 The concertina was inspired by the Cheng (Chinese mouth organ). 1980 Early Music 8 355/1 These, the sho of Japan and the sheng of China, are forms of free-reed mouth organ with a rigid wind chest held in the hands, the fingers remaining free to open and close the reeds in the cane pipes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shengn.² /ʃʌŋ/ Etymology: < Chinese shēng. The principal male character in a Chinese opera. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > chief male singer > Chinese sheng1886 1886 Jrnl. N.-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 208 The characters in Chinese plays are arranged under five denominations... The hero is shêng. He wears a black beard, but his face is not concealed. 1937 L. C. Arlington & H. Acton Famous Chinese Plays p. xxiii Shêng are divided into Wên, Civil, and Wu, Military. These are the leading actors. 1972 C. P. Mackerras Rise of Peking Opera i. 2 There were seven types of actors in the nan-hsi... Some of these terms can still be found..in Peking Opera today. For example, the sheng and tan were—and still are—the principal male and female characters respectively. 1973 R. F. S. Yang in Yuan-li Wu China 74/1 Yen was the founder of the Yen school of the ‘bearded sheng’ voice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). Shengn.³adj. Brit. /ʃɛŋ/, U.S. /ʃɛŋ/, East African English /ʃeŋ/ Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) a borrowing from Swahili. Etymons: Swahili n., English n.; Swahili (Sheng) Sheng. Etymology: Either (i) < S- (in Swahili n.) + Eng- (in English n.), or (ii) < Swahili (Sheng) Sheng < the same elements. The reason for the change of the initial sound to sh- is unclear.It is uncertain whether the word was originally formed in English or Swahili (Sheng), and it probably emerged in a bilingual context. A. n.³ A street language blending Swahili with lexical and grammatical elements from English and other languages, originating as part of youth subculture of Nairobi but now also used by people of varying age and social class in urban communities across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. ΚΠ 1985 Standard (Nairobi) 30 Aug. 17/2 Sheng..a mixture of many word symbols but moulded within the Kiswahili and English syntactical framework, and located within a budding culture..should be regarded as a language because it helps people to communicate. 1989 Coastweek (Mombasa) 21 July 14/2 They broke into ‘Sheng’ and started telling Kachumbari what they thought of him. 2003 B. Wainaina in D. Adebayo et al. New Writing 12 120 He told his stories sometimes in Sheng, the version of Swahili that all the cool people spoke. 2015 Kwani? 8 422 It's common to mix up syllables in Sheng—Steven becomes Stevo becomes Vande—but Gonto and his brother are gods of the syllable switch. B. adj. Of or belonging to Sheng; characterized by or designating Sheng. ΚΠ 1987 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. Oxf. 18 128 Manamba is itself a Sheng word, derived from the Swahili prefix ma- and the English word ‘number’, which originally referred to the number of the [taxi-van] service. 1992 Eng. Today Oct. 27/2 Intonationally, Sheng has predominantly adopted the Kiswahili pattern and this can be discerned easily even in the spoken English of Sheng speakers. 1996 R. M. Swiderski Metamorphosis of Eng. vii. 113 The Sheng language of Kenya..is a..redesign of English words according to the criteria of Swahili phonology. 2019 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 22 Apr. Some might not like it that most of his songs have Sheng titles but Moji is actually the kind of Gospel artiste that the Kenyan youth need. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.¹1795n.²1886n.³adj.1985
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