fingering

English

fingering (plural fingerings)

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
- 1813 CE: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.
(music, countable) A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
That chord has two fingerings.
(uncountable) The act of using the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus.
A thick woollen yarn for stockings.

playing a musical instrument

Catalan: digitació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指法 (zh) (zhǐfǎ)
Finnish: sormitus (fi)
French: doigté (fr) m
Hungarian: ujjrend
Italian: manualità f, gestualità (it)
Maori: pokipoki
Polish: aplikatura (pl) f, palcowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: dedilhamento m, dedilhação (pt) f, digitação (pt) f, dedilhado (pt) m
Russian: аппликату́ра (ru) f (applikatúra)
Turkish: tıngırdatma (tr) (of stringed instruments)

specific method

sexual act

Catalan: inserció del dit f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 指交 (zhǐjiāo)
Czech: prstění (cs) n
Finnish: sormiseksi, sormitus (fi), sormetus (fi)
French: doigtage (fr) m
Italian: ditalino (it) m
Japanese: 手マン (te-man)
Persian: انگل کردن‎ (angol kardan)
Polish: palcówka (pl) f
Russian: фи́нгеринг (ru) m (fíngering)
Spanish: (los dedos analmente (anal)) insertar (es), (los dedos vaginalmente (vagina)) insertar (es)
Turkish: parmaklama (tr)

fingering