"cupping" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌpɪŋ/ Forms: cuppings [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English cupping, equivalent to cup + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cupping}} Middle English cupping, {{af|en|cup|-ing}} cup + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cupping (countable and uncountable, plural cuppings)
  1. (medicine, archaic) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Hyponyms: dry cupping, wet cupping
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-noun-ITstYnqU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 8 32 16 2 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 10 24 22 4 23 Topics: medicine, sciences
  2. (medicine, archaic) A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-noun-I15ekJK8 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 10 24 22 4 23 Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. (medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms (vacuum treatment): myofascial decompression (alt: MFD) (english: a modern therapeutic sports injury treatment technique using a partial vacuum to draw blood to the area) Translations (therapeutic treatment): حِجَامَة (ḥijāma) [feminine] (Arabic), حَجَامَة (ḥajāma) [feminine] (Arabic), 拔罐 (báguàn) (Chinese Mandarin), kuppaaminen (Finnish), kuppaus (Finnish), Schröpfen [neuter] (German), βεντούζες (ventoúzes) [feminine] (Greek), fumenti (Maltese), tratament cu ventuze (Romanian), koppning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-noun-6XRyWWkf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 8 32 16 2 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 10 24 22 4 23 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'vacuum treatment': 13 5 80 1 1 Disambiguation of 'therapeutic treatment': 4 3 92 1 1
  4. The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-noun-1utCWM33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 8 32 16 2 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 10 24 22 4 23
  5. The act of forming something into a cup shape. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-noun-e6l09m73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cupping glass, cupping jar, cupping therapy
Etymology number: 1

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌpɪŋ/
Etymology: From cup + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|cup|-ing}} cup + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} cupping
  1. present participle and gerund of cup Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: cup
    Sense id: en-cupping-en-verb-dtKTczLy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 8 32 16 2 26 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 18 10 24 22 4 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌpɪŋ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cupping"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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