Etymology 1
From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
Noun
stocking (plural stockings)
- (footwear) A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
a pair of stockings
- Ellipsis of Christmas stocking; a large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
- A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
- A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Usage notes
- Stocking may refer either to men's socks or to women's hose, but rarely to socks when worn by women. However, this usage appears somewhat variable.
Translations
garment (for translations of "sock", see sock)
- Albanian: çorape f, çorap (sq) m
- Arabic: جَوْرَب m (jawrab) (pl: جَوَارِب m pl (jawārib))
- Armenian: գուլպա (hy) (gulpa)
- Azerbaijani: corab (az)
- Bashkir: ойоҡ (oyoq)
- Basque: galtzerdi (eu)
- Belarusian: панчо́ха f (pančóxa)
- Bengali: মোজা (bn) (mōja)
- Bulgarian: чора́п (bg) m (čoráp), дъ́лъг чора́п m (dǎ́lǎg čoráp)
- Burmese: မော်ဇာ (my) (mauja), ခြေအိတ် (my) (hkreit)
- Catalan: mitja (ca) f, calça (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 長筒襪 / 长筒袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), 長統襪 / 长统袜 (zh) (chángtǒngwà), (may be confused for long socks) 長襪 / 长袜 (zh) (chángwà)
- Czech: punčocha (cs) f
- Danish: strømpe (da) c
- Dutch: kous (nl) f
- Esperanto: ŝtrumpo
- Estonian: sukk
- Finnish: sukka (fi)
- French: bas (fr) m
- Georgian: წინდა (ka) (c̣inda)
- German: Strumpf (de) m
- Greek: κάλτσα (el) f (káltsa)
- Hindi: मोज़ा m (mozā)
- Hungarian: harisnya (hu)
- Ido: kalzo (io)
- Indonesian: stoking (id), setoking
- Ingrian: sukka
- Interlingua: calcea
- Irish: stoca (ga) m
- Italian: calza (it) f, calze di nylon f pl
- Japanese: ストッキング (ja) (sutokkingu)
- Kashubian: sztrimpa f
- Kazakh: шұлық (kk) (şūlyq)
- Khmer: ស្រោមជើង (sraom cəəng)
- Korean: 스타킹 (ko) (seutaking), 양말(洋襪) (ko) (yangmal), 스토킹 (ko) (seutoking) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: gore (ku)
- Kyrgyz: байпак (ky) (baypak), чулки (ky) (culki)
- Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າຍາວ (thong th wa), ຖົງຕີນ (thong tīn)
- Latin: tībiāle n
- Latvian: zeķe f
- Lithuanian: kojinė f
- Luxembourgish: Strëmp (lb) f, Hues (lb) f
- Macedonian: чо́рап m (čórap)
- Malay: stokin
- Maltese: peduna f
- Maori: tōkena
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: урт оймс (urt ojms), оймс (mn) (ojms)
- Nanai: доктон (dokton)
- Navajo: yistłé áłtʼą́ą́ʼí
- Norman: cauche f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: strømpe (no) f
- Ottoman Turkish: چوراب (çorab)
- Persian:
- Dari: جُورَاب (jūrāb)
- Iranian Persian: جوراب (fa) (jurâb)
- Polish: pończocha (pl) f
- Portuguese: meia (pt) f
- Romanian: ciorap (ro) m, șosetă (ro) f
- Russian: чуло́к (ru) m (čulók)
- Scottish Gaelic: stocainn f, osan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ча̀рапа f
- Roman: čàrapa (sh) f
- Slovak: pančucha f
- Slovene: nogavica (sl) f
- Southern Altai: ук (uk), чулук (čuluk)
- Spanish: media (es) f
- Swedish: strumpa (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷӯроб (jürob)
- Taos: mę́dianą
- Thai: ถุงน่อง (tǔng-nɔ̂ng)
- Turkish: çorap (tr)
- Turkmen: jorap
- Ukrainian: панчо́ха (uk) f (pančóxa)
- Urdu: موزَہ m (moza)
- Uyghur: پايپاق (paypaq), ئۇزۇن پايپاق (uzun paypaq)
- Uzbek: paypoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: vớ (vi)
- Zazaki: gêrwe
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