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单词 gang
释义

gang

See also: Gang, gàng, gäng, gǎng, găng, gāng, and gång

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: găng, IPA(key): /ɡæŋ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (to go, walk, turn out), from Proto-Germanic *ganganą (to go, walk), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (to step, walk).

Cognate with Scots gang (to go on foot, walk), Swedish gånga (to walk, go), Faroese ganga (to walk), Icelandic ganga (to walk, go), Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.

Alternative forms

  • gan

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

  1. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
    • 1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy. Act III
      (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)
    • 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet
      "And am I to meet my Mary at Moffat? Come away, little, dear, welcome body, thou blessed of heaven, come away, and taste of an auld shepherd's best cheer, and I'll gang foot for foot with you to Moffat, and my auld wife shall gang foot for foot with us too. I tell you, little, blessed, and welcome crile, come along with me."
Derived terms
  • back-ganging
  • gang alow
  • gang-by
  • ganger
  • gang gizzen
  • gang gleyed
  • gangling
  • gang one's gait
  • gangrel

Etymology 2

From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (a journey; way; passage), from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (to step; stride).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas).

Noun

gang (plural gangs)

  1. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
    the Gashouse Gang
    The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.
  2. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
    a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.
  3. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
    a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.
  4. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
    The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.
  5. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
    The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.
    Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
  6. (US) A chain gang.
  7. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
    a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.
  8. A set; all required for an outfit.
    a new gang of stays.
  9. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
    an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.
  10. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
    a gang of wires
    Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
  11. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
    • 1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes I.3:
      In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang
    • 1869, Papa André, Once a Week, page 418/1:
      That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.
    • 1895, Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl, Modern Language Association of America, page 229:
      Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.
  12. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, page 290:
      Þaða he to gange com.
Synonyms
  • (outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom
Hyponyms
hyponyms of gang (noun)
  • Gang of Five
  • Gang of Four
  • street gang
  • urban gang
Derived terms
terms derived from gang (noun)
  • A-gang
  • anti-gang
  • black gang
  • cool and the gang
  • downgang
  • gang-bang
  • gang bang
  • gangboard
  • gang box
  • gang-buster
  • gang-cask
  • gang cask
  • gangdom
  • ganger
  • gang-fuck
  • gang-gang
  • gangland
  • gang member
  • gang of four
  • gang-plank
  • gangplank
  • gang plank
  • gang press
  • gang rape
  • gang-rape
  • gang rapist
  • gang-rider
  • gang show
  • gang sign
  • gang signal
  • gangsman
  • gangster
  • gang switch
  • gang up
  • gang up on
  • gang war
  • gangway
  • ingang
  • misgang
  • ongang
  • outgang
  • overgang
  • oxgang
  • press-gang
  • road gang
  • Scooby gang
  • throughgang
  • towzery gang
  • umgang
  • undergang
  • upgang
  • water-gang
  • watergang
  • withgang
  • work gang
Descendants
  • Cebuano: gang
  • Dutch: gang
  • Japanese: ギャング (gyangu)
  • Malay: geng
  • Norman: dgaîngue
  • Portuguese: gangue
  • Spanish: gang
  • Tagalog: gang
  • Thai: แก๊ง (gɛ́ng)
Translations
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Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

  1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
    • 1981, United States. Department of Defense, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems (page 58)
      Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output []
    • 1999 May, Rosario Capotosto, “Building a Bookcase”, in Popular Mechanics:
      When cutting the back cleats with the T-guide, first gang them together so all the marks on one side align.
    • 2011, Corky Binggeli, Interior Graphic Standards: Student Edition, →ISBN, page 317:
      The chairs are usually ganged together using a variety of ganging or locking mechanisms to create rows and prevent the chairs from moving out of position.
Derived terms
  • gang up
  • gang up on

See also

  • Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 3

See gan.

Verb

gang

  1. Pronunciation spelling of gan.

Etymology 4

Shortening of gangbang.

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

  1. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.
    • 2015, Richard Allen, Skinhead, page 80:
      [] there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.

References

  • The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Noun

gang (countable and uncountable, plural gangs)

  1. (mining) Alternative form of gangue

Anagrams

  • gnag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gang, from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χaŋ/
  • (file)

Noun

gang (plural gange)

  1. a passageway, alley

Alemannic German

Verb

gang

  1. second-person imperative singular of gaa

Balinese

Romanization

gang

  1. Romanization of ᬕᬂ

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaŋ/, [ˈɡaŋ]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang (a journey; way; passage), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (to step; stride).

Noun

gang

  1. gang (company of persons)
    Synonym: barkada
  2. criminal gang
Derived terms
  • ganggang

Etymology 2

From langga, pangga. Compare lang.

Noun

gang

  1. Term of address: dear; sweetie

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gang.


Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡ̊anɡ̊/, [ɡ̊ɑŋˀ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋˀ

Etymology 1

From Old Danish gang, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (stride, step).

Noun

gang c (singular definite gangen, plural indefinite gange)

  1. the act of walking, a walk
  2. a time (an occurrence, an incidence)
    Hvor mange gange slog klokken?
    How many times did the bell toll?
  3. a way or path to walk on, either outdoors or indoors (a corridor)
Inflection
Derived terms
  • adgang
  • afgang
  • engang
  • forgang
  • gennemgang
  • i gang (active, in activity)
  • indgang
  • medgang
  • mellemgang
  • omgang
  • overgang
  • rundgang
  • tilgang
  • udgang
  • undergang

Etymology 2

See gange.

Verb

gang

  1. imperative of gange

References

  • gang” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • gang” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣɑŋ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: gang
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

gang m (plural gangen, diminutive gangetje n)

  1. passageway, alley
  2. gait, walk (person's manner of walking or stepping)
  3. journey
  4. hallway, corridor
  5. course

Derived terms

  • dwarsgang
  • gangbaar
  • gangboord
  • gangdeur
  • gangpad
  • gangmaker
  • gangwachter
  • gangwerk
  • gangwiel
  • doorgang
  • ingang
  • lediggang, ledigganger
  • pandgang
  • ondergang
  • rechtsgang
  • telgang, telganger
  • toegang
  • uitgang
  • voetganger
  • voortgang
  • welgang
  • zoolgang, zoolganger

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: gang
  • Petjo: gang
  • Balinese: ᬕᬂ
  • Caribbean Javanese: gang
  • Indonesian: gang
  • Papiamentu: gang, han, hangetsji, hangetsje

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang.

Pronunciation

  • (France) IPA(key): /ɡɑ̃ɡ/
    • (file)
  • (Canadian French) IPA(key): /ɡaŋ/
    • (file)

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

  1. gang, group of ill-doers

Derived terms

  • en gang

Further reading

  • gang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gang

  1. river

References

  • Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 114

German

Verb

gang

  1. obsolete form of geh, singular imperative of gehen

Hungarian

gang (three levels in the upper half of the photo)

Etymology

From German Gang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡɒŋɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋɡ

Noun

gang (plural gangok)

  1. (informal) outside walkway, hanging corridor (along the main walls of the courtyard of a tenement building, a major venue of socializing with neighbours)
    Synonym: (mainly as an architectural term) függőfolyosó

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singularplural
nominativeganggangok
accusativegangotgangokat
dativegangnakgangoknak
instrumentalganggalgangokkal
causal-finalgangértgangokért
translativeganggágangokká
terminativegangiggangokig
essive-formalgangkéntgangokként
essive-modal
inessivegangbangangokban
superessivegangongangokon
adessivegangnálgangoknál
illativegangbagangokba
sublativegangragangokra
allativeganghozgangokhoz
elativegangbólgangokból
delativegangrólgangokról
ablativegangtólgangoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
gangégangoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
gangéigangokéi
Possessive forms of gang
possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
1st person sing.gangomgangjaim
2nd person sing.gangodgangjaid
3rd person sing.gangjagangjai
1st person pluralgangunkgangjaink
2nd person pluralgangotokgangjaitok
3rd person pluralgangjukgangjaik

Derived terms

  • gangos
Compound words
  • körgang

Further reading

  • gang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch gang (passageway, alley), from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (to step; stride). Doublet of geng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaŋ/
  • Hyphenation: gang

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

  1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides
    gang buntudead-end alley
    Synonym: lorong
Descendants
  • Min Nan: (kàn, narrow street)[1]

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

  1. Alternative spelling of geng (gang)

Verb

gang

  1. Alternative spelling of geng

References

  1. Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading

  • gang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • ganga, ghenga, ghega (dated)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛnɡ/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnɡ

Noun

gang f (usually invariable, plural (dated) gangs)

  1. gang, specifically:
  2. (dated) a group of people
  3. (dated) a group of laborers under one foreman
  4. a criminal group
  • gangster

References

  1. gang in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • gang in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Mandarin

Romanization

gang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gǎng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of gàng.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

gang

  1. Alternative form of gong

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to .

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural ganger, definite plural gangene)

  1. hall, hallway
    Sett fra deg skoene i gangen.
    Leave your shoes in the hallway.
  2. passage, corridor
    I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.
    The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.
  3. aisle
  4. walk, path
  5. walk, walking, going
  6. walk, gait
    Gangen hans er litt merkelig.
    His gait is a bit weird
  7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
  8. course; passage
  9. course; march
  10. time
    Vi vant fem ganger på rad!
    We won five times in a row!
  11. plot, action
    Historiens gang var litt komplisert.
    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.
  12. (mining) dike, lode
  13. vein
  14. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

References

  • “gang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑŋː/

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural gangar, definite plural gangane)

  1. hall, hallway
    Sett frå deg skorne i gangen.
    Leave your shoes in the hallway.
  2. passage, corridor
    I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.
    The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.
  3. aisle
  4. walk, path
  5. walk, walking, going
  6. walk, gait
    Gangen hans er litt merkeleg.
    His gait is a bit weird
  7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
  8. course; passage
  9. course; march
  10. plot, action
    Gangen i soga var litt komplisert.
    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.
  11. (mining) dike, lode
  12. vein
  13. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

See also

  • gong

References

  • “gang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • gancg, gong
  • ġeong, ġiong with initial /j/ after palatalised past forms of gangan

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (to step; stride). Related to Old English gangan (to go, walk).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑnɡ/, [ɡɑŋɡ]

Noun

gang m

  1. going, walking
  2. path
  3. walk, gait
  4. toilet

Declension

Derived terms

  • gangsetl
  • gangstōl
  • ingang
  • niþergang
  • upgang
  • ūtgang
  • ymbgang

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: gong, gang, gonge, goonge
    • English: gang (see there for further descendants); gong, goung (obsolete)
    • Scots: gang, gaung, ging
      Northeastern: dyang, gyang

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gang.

Noun

gang m (plural ganga)

  1. A path, course, way, journey; a going

Declension

Derived terms

  • ubargang
  • Wolfgang

Descendants

  • Middle High German: ganc
    • German: Gang

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang, from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaŋk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aŋk
  • Syllabification: gang

Noun

gang m inan

  1. gang (criminal group with a common background)
    Synonyms: banda, szajka

Declension

adjective
  • gangsterski
nouns
  • gangster
  • gangsterstwo
  • gangsteryzm

Further reading

  • gang in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gang in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

gang (Portugal) m or (Brazil) f (plural gangs)

  1. Dated spelling of gangue.

Romanian

Etymology

From German Gang.

Noun

gang n (plural ganguri)

  1. passageway

Declension


Scots

Alternative forms

  • gae
  • gan

Etymology

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan, Old Norse ganga, with inflected forms from Old English gān (like English go).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑŋ/

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle gaun, simple past gaed, past participle gaen)

  1. To go.
    • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red, Rose":
      And I will love thee still, my dear
      Till a’ the seas gang dry.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
      'There you gang,' she cries, 'broking wi' thae wearifu' Pharisees o' Caulds, whae daurna darken your mither's door! A bonnie dutiful child, quotha! Wumman, hae ye nae pride, or even the excuse o' a tinkler-lass?'

Spanish

Etymology

From English gang.

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

  1. gang
    Synonyms: (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico) mara, pandilla
  • gánster

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang (a journey; way; passage), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (to step; stride).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaŋ/, [ˈɡaŋ]

Noun

gang

  1. gang (company of persons)
    Synonyms: barkada, barkadahan
  2. criminal gang
  • gangster
  • gangsterismo

Further reading

  • gang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
  • gang” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2023.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɣaːŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ɣaːŋ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɣaːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *c-kaːŋ (handspan).

Noun

gang • (𡬼, 𪮚)

  1. a handspan

See also

Derived terms
  • gang tấc

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːŋ, from Old Chinese (OC *C.kˤaŋ) (B-S) (SV: cương).

Noun

gang • (𨧠, 𮢪)

  1. cast iron
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