Fang

Fang

See also: fang, fáng, fàng, fāng, Fāng, and fǎng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Noun

Fang pl (plural only)

1. A people of western Africa.

Translations

people

Fang (Bantu): Fang

Proper noun

Fang

1. The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
2. 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

Fang (Bantu): Fang

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

1. 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:10.12783/dtssehs/icesd2019/29830, →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.

Translations

county in central China

Chinese: Mandarin: 房 (zh) (Fáng) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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Fang (Bantu)

Proper noun

Fang

1. Fang people
2. Fang language (Pahouin)

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German vanc, ultimately from the root of fangen (“to catch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faŋ/
• Rhymes: -aŋ

• Audio

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Noun

Fang m (strong, genitive Fanges or Fangs, plural Fänge)

1. catch, capture
2. booty, prey
3. haul, draught
4. fang, talon, claw, tusk
5. (hunting) coup de grâce
6. hunting, fishing (fish, whales)

Declension

Declension of Fang [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	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