penge

penge (uncountable)

1. (philately) (typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.
   • 2017, Alan Griffiths, The 1879 First Sideface Issue of Queensland, page 21:

     The ‘PENGE’ flaw which is caused by a white defect on letter ‘C’ of PENCE giving the effect of a ‘G’. This is at # 116 on Plate I.

Originally a plural of penning (“coin”), related to English penny. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *panningaz. Compare Icelandic peningar, Faroese pengar, Norwegian Nynorsk pengar, Norwegian Bokmål penger, and Swedish pengar.

• IPA^(key): /pɛŋə/, [ˈpʰɛŋə], [ˈpʰɛŋŋ̩]

penge (plural definite pengene)

1. money

Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. Conversion by deliberate coinage from peng (“to ring, clink”) +‎ -e (obsolete present-participle suffix). For the semantic change, compare German Klinge (“blade”) from klingen (“to ring, clink”). In terms of form, a split took place from cognate pengő.^[1] The later slang (adjective) sense may well be a metaphorical reference to the edge of a blade.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛŋɡɛ]
• Hyphenation: pen‧ge
• Rhymes: -ɡɛ

penge (plural pengék)

1. blade (the sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword)

penge (comparative pengébb, superlative legpengébb)

1. (slang) sharp, sharp-witted, adept, able

• penge in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• peng
• pening, pæning (dialectal)

From Old Norse peningr and pengr. Akin to English penny. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *panningaz.

• IPA^(key): /²pɛŋːə/

penge m (definite singular pengen, indefinite plural pengar, definite plural pengane)

1. a coin
2. (mostly plural) money

• “penge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Contraction of pahingi.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpeŋeʔ/ [ˈpɛː.ŋɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -eŋeʔ
• Syllabification: pe‧nge

pengè (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜅᜒ) (colloquial)

1. pronunciation spelling of pahingi

• “penge”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018