Fang
See also: fang, fáng, fàng, fāng, Fāng, and fǎng
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɒŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Noun
Fang pl (plural only)
- A people of western Africa.
Translations
people
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Proper noun
Fang
- The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
- A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.
Translations
the language of Guinea which is also called Pahouin
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Fang (Bantu) terms
- Ethnologue entry for Fang, fan
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Fang (Beboid) terms
- Ethnologue entry for Fang, fak
Etymology 2
From Mandarin 房 (Fáng).
Proper noun
Fang
- A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 1907, Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons, OCLC 931763659, page 23:
- Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.
- 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, number 471-479, OCLC 2370938:
- FANG COUNTY HYDROELECTRICITY--This year the people in Fang County have developed 135 small hydroelectric power stations with a total installed[...]
- 1990, Eva Wong, transl., Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China, Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, LCCN 89-43307, OCLC 247146442, page 110:
- After parting with his brothers, Wang Yü-yang journeyed on the southwest road and came to a small town nestled in the rural region of Fang County.
- 2018 August 26, Chen, Laurie, “Dreamers, crackpots or realists? The diehards on the trail of China’s ‘Bigfoot’”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 25 August 2018:
- “Its speed was very fast, but it was walking, not running,” Yuan said. As the creature ranged across a mountain in Fang county, bordering the Shennongjia Forestry District, “it walked faster than a human ran”.
- 2019, Li, Na; Ni Yan, “Present Situation and Development Suggestions of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry in Hubei Province”, in 2019 4th International Conference on Education and Social Development (ICESD 2019), DOI: , →ISBN, page 147:
- Hubei Sanxin Biotechnology Co., LTD, located in Fang County, Shiyan City, has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine [from] Polygonum Cuspidatum, including "yellow bud stem" vegetables, resveratrol extract, emodin extract, and crude Polygonum cuspidatum extract and so on.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fang.
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Translations
county in central China
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Fang (Bantu)
Proper noun
Fang
- Fang people
- Fang language (Pahouin)
German
Etymology
From Middle High German vanc, ultimately from the root of fangen (“to catch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faŋ/
- Rhymes: -aŋ
Audio (file)
Noun
Fang m (strong, genitive Fanges or Fangs, plural Fänge)
- catch, capture
- booty, prey
- haul, draught
- fang, talon, claw, tusk
- (hunting) coup de grâce
- hunting, fishing (fish, whales)
Declension
Declension of Fang [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Fang | die | Fänge |
genitive | eines | des | Fanges, Fangs | der | Fänge |
dative | einem | dem | Fang, Fange1 | den | Fängen |
accusative | einen | den | Fang | die | Fänge |
1Now uncommon, see notes.
Further reading
- “Fang” in Duden online
- “Fang” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache