bang
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæŋ(ɡ)/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋ
- Homophone: bhang
Etymology 1
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian, bangan or Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga (“to hammer”), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
Alternative forms
- bangue (obsolete)
Noun
bang (plural bangs)
- A sudden percussive noise.
- 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:
- A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
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- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- An explosion.
- (US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs.
- 1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country
- his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate:
- She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead
- (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- 1980, Wilkinson, Clarke, Wilkinson, Communicating through Letters and Reports, 7th edition, page 651:
- Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
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- (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- (slang, mining) An explosive product.
- Load the bang into the hole.
- (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). [from 20th c.]
- 1952, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 101:
- As for myself, I take a bang now and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother.
- 1952, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 101:
- (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
- (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
- There was a bang of onions off his breath.
- (slang) A thrill.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, page 38:
- I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them.
- 1993, Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman, Hypocritic Days & Other Tales (page 40)
- "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
"It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.
- "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
- 2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk (page 31)
- Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.
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- strike, blow
- explosion
- (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark, pling
Antonyms
- (abrupt left turn): hang
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Verb
bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)
- (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- The fireworks banged away all through the night.
- Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!
- My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
- (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
- He banged the door shut.
- David and Mary banged into each other.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
- (slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
- Synonyms: nail, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire, Culver City, Calif.: TriStar Pictures; distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, published 1997, →ISBN, spoken by Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr):
- It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
- 1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather:
- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
- (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni
- His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
- c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
- Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
- (finance, transitive, dated) To depress the prices in (a market).
- 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ... (page 64)
- This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
- 1902, Truth (volume 50, page 1138)
- […] the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again […]
- 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ... (page 64)
- (slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
Conjugation
infinitive | (to) bang | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | bang | banged | |
2nd-person singular | bang, bangest† | banged, bangedst† | |
3rd-person singular | bangs, bangeth† | banged | |
plural | bang | ||
subjunctive | bang | banged | |
imperative | bang | — | |
participles | banging | banged |
†Archaic or obsolete.
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Adverb
bang (comparative more bang, superlative most bang)
- Right, directly.
- The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
- 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
- After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
- Precisely.
- He arrived bang on time.
- With a sudden impact.
- Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Interjection
bang
- A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- Bang! Away he goes with a mighty bound. Leo has missed him. Bang! right under him again. Now for a shot. I must have one, though he is going like an arrow, and a hundred yards away and more.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 84:
- "Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 215:
- "Serve him right. Transgression - punishment - bang! Pitiless, pitiless."
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:
- "We help to kill the bloody bandits. Bang, bang, bang."
Translations
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Derived terms
- (verb): banger, bit banging, gangbang, bang about, bang around, bang away, bang down the door, bang on the door, bang one's head against a brick wall, bang out, bang the door down, gang-bang, head bang, bang like a shithouse door, bang like a dunny door, bang like a dunny door in a gale
- (noun): bang bang chicken, bang path, bang for the buck, bang snap, bang stick, bang straw / bang-straw, bang tail / bang-tail, bang zone, bang-up cove, big bang / Big Bang, flash-bang, gang bang, go out with a bang, interrobang, with a bang
- (adverb): bang on, bang out of order, bang to rights, bang up / bang-up
- (interjection): bang-bang, slap bang / slap-bang, smack bang, the whole bang shoot, whiz-bang / whizz-bang / whizbang
Noun
bang (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)
See also
- PC bang
Anagrams
- BGAN
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch bang (“afraid”), from Middle Dutch banghe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ/
Audio (file)
Adjective
bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)
- afraid
Bislama
Etymology 1
From English bank.
Noun
bang
- A bank
- 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech, →ISBN, page 344:
- Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
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Etymology 2
From English bang.
Noun
bang
- accident
See also
- aksidong
Cebuano
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
bang
- the sound of an explosion or a gun
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑŋ/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: bang
- Rhymes: -ɑŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch banghe, from be- + anghe. The latter word is an adverbial form of enge (“narrow, confined”), compare angst (“fear”). See also Middle Low German bange, Middle High German bange, German bang, West Frisian bang.
Adjective
bang (comparative banger, superlative bangst)
- scared, frightened
- Wees maar niet bang.
- Please don't be afraid.
- Ik ben bang voor het donker!
- I am scared of the dark!
- fearful
- anxious
Usage notes
The adjective is accompanied with zijn (to be); for example: Ik ben bang "I am afraid". Usage with hebben (to have) also occurs - for example: Ik heb bang - but is generally proscribed as a contamination with ik heb angst.
Inflection
Inflection of bang | ||||
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uninflected | bang | |||
inflected | bange | |||
comparative | banger | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | bang | banger | het bangst het bangste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | bange | bangere | bangste |
n. sing. | bang | banger | bangste | |
plural | bange | bangere | bangste | |
definite | bange | bangere | bangste | |
partitive | bangs | bangers | — |
Synonyms
- bevreesd, angstig, schrikachtig, vruchtig, verschrikt
Derived terms
- bangbroek
- bangelijk
- bangerik
- bangmakerij
- doodsbang
Related terms
- angst
- eng
- engte
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bang
- Berbice Creole Dutch: banggi
- Jersey Dutch: bāng
- Negerhollands: bang, baṅ
See also
- schrikken
Etymology 2
Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.
Noun
bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)
- A sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun; bang
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑ̃ɡ/
Audio (file)
Interjection
bang
- bang
Noun
bang m (plural bangs)
- sonic boom
- bong (marijuana pipe)
Further reading
- “bang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Alternative forms
- bange (both are roughly equally common)
Etymology
Originally an adverb, cf. mir ist bange. From Middle High German bange, an enlargement (with the prefix be-) of ange, Old High German ango (“narrowly, anxiously”), an adverb of engi (“narrow”), from Proto-Germanic *anguz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aŋ
Adjective
bang (strong nominative masculine singular banger, comparative banger or bänger, superlative am bangsten or am bängsten)
- scared, frightened, afraid, fearful
- Synonym: ängstlich
- 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Lazarus”, in Romanzero, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Und ist man tot, so muß man lang / Im Grabe liegen; ich bin bang, / Ja, ich bin bang, das Auferstehen / Wird nicht so schnell von Statten gehen.
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- 2001, Sebald, Winfried Georg, Austerlitz, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, →ISBN, page 376:
- […] wenn sie, was mich stets in eine bange Stimmung versetzte, nicht in Paris war, machte ich mich regelmäßig auf, die Randbezirke der Stadt zu erkunden […]
- when she, which always placed me into a state of dread, wasn’t in Paris, I regularly set off to reconnoitre the outlying districts of the city […]
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist bang | sie ist bang | es ist bang | sie sind bang | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | banger | bange | banges | bange |
genitive | bangen | banger | bangen | banger | |
dative | bangem | banger | bangem | bangen | |
accusative | bangen | bange | banges | bange | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der bange | die bange | das bange | die bangen |
genitive | des bangen | der bangen | des bangen | der bangen | |
dative | dem bangen | der bangen | dem bangen | den bangen | |
accusative | den bangen | die bange | das bange | die bangen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein banger | eine bange | ein banges | (keine) bangen |
genitive | eines bangen | einer bangen | eines bangen | (keiner) bangen | |
dative | einem bangen | einer bangen | einem bangen | (keinen) bangen | |
accusative | einen bangen | eine bange | ein banges | (keine) bangen |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist banger er ist bänger | sie ist banger sie ist bänger | es ist banger es ist bänger | sie sind banger sie sind bänger | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | bangerer bängerer | bangere bängere | bangeres bängeres | bangere bängere |
genitive | bangeren bängeren | bangerer bängerer | bangeren bängeren | bangerer bängerer | |
dative | bangerem bängerem | bangerer bängerer | bangerem bängerem | bangeren bängeren | |
accusative | bangeren bängeren | bangere bängere | bangeres bängeres | bangere bängere | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der bangere der bängere | die bangere die bängere | das bangere das bängere | die bangeren die bängeren |
genitive | des bangeren des bängeren | der bangeren der bängeren | des bangeren des bängeren | der bangeren der bängeren | |
dative | dem bangeren dem bängeren | der bangeren der bängeren | dem bangeren dem bängeren | den bangeren den bängeren | |
accusative | den bangeren den bängeren | die bangere die bängere | das bangere das bängere | die bangeren die bängeren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein bangerer ein bängerer | eine bangere eine bängere | ein bangeres ein bängeres | (keine) bangeren (keine) bängeren |
genitive | eines bangeren eines bängeren | einer bangeren einer bängeren | eines bangeren eines bängeren | (keiner) bangeren (keiner) bängeren | |
dative | einem bangeren einem bängeren | einer bangeren einer bängeren | einem bangeren einem bängeren | (keinen) bangeren (keinen) bängeren | |
accusative | einen bangeren einen bängeren | eine bangere eine bängere | ein bangeres ein bängeres | (keine) bangeren (keine) bängeren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist am bangsten er ist am bängsten | sie ist am bangsten sie ist am bängsten | es ist am bangsten es ist am bängsten | sie sind am bangsten sie sind am bängsten | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | bangster bängster | bangste bängste | bangstes bängstes | bangste bängste |
genitive | bangsten bängsten | bangster bängster | bangsten bängsten | bangster bängster | |
dative | bangstem bängstem | bangster bängster | bangstem bängstem | bangsten bängsten | |
accusative | bangsten bängsten | bangste bängste | bangstes bängstes | bangste bängste | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der bangste der bängste | die bangste die bängste | das bangste das bängste | die bangsten die bängsten |
genitive | des bangsten des bängsten | der bangsten der bängsten | des bangsten des bängsten | der bangsten der bängsten | |
dative | dem bangsten dem bängsten | der bangsten der bängsten | dem bangsten dem bängsten | den bangsten den bängsten | |
accusative | den bangsten den bängsten | die bangste die bängste | das bangste das bängste | die bangsten die bängsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein bangster ein bängster | eine bangste eine bängste | ein bangstes ein bängstes | (keine) bangsten (keine) bängsten |
genitive | eines bangsten eines bängsten | einer bangsten einer bängsten | eines bangsten eines bängsten | (keiner) bangsten (keiner) bängsten | |
dative | einem bangsten einem bängsten | einer bangsten einer bängsten | einem bangsten einem bängsten | (keinen) bangsten (keinen) bängsten | |
accusative | einen bangsten einen bängsten | eine bangste eine bängste | ein bangstes ein bängstes | (keine) bangsten (keine) bängsten |
Derived terms
- angst und bang
Further reading
- “bang” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “bang” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pauŋk/
- Rhymes: -aŋ
- Rhymes: -auŋk
- Rhymes: -aŋː
Noun
bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)
- pounding, hammering, banging
Declension
n-s | singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bang | bangið |
accusative | bang | bangið |
dative | bangi | banginu |
genitive | bangs | bangsins |
Related terms
- banga
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ/
- Hyphenation: bang
- Homophone: bank
Etymology 1
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
Noun
bang
- Title or term of address for brother
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic
Noun
bang
- A sudden percussive noise.
Etymology 3
From Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /vāng/).[1]
Noun
bang (first-person possessive bangku, second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)
- (obsolete) adhan
- Synonym: azan
Derived terms
- mengebangkan
References
- Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018), “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation, page 117-144
Further reading
- “bang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)
- (swimming) stroke, single effort
- Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar
- effort, (vigorous) movement
Declension
Third declension
Bare forms:
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Derived terms
- bang brollaigh (“breast-stroke”)
- bang thaoibh (“side-stroke”)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).
Noun
bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)
- ban, interdict, taboo
- restraint
Declension
Second declension
Bare forms
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Noun
bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)
- Alternative form of banc (“bank”)
Declension
First declension
Bare forms:
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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bang | bhang | mbang |
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Further reading
- Entries containing “bang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bang”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “stroke” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Javanese
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Carakan | ꦧꦁ |
Roman | bang |
Etymology 1
From the Javanese adjective abang.
Adjective
bang
- red
Noun
bang
- region
Etymology 3
Akin to Malay bank.
Noun
bang
- bank (institution)
Etymology 4
From the Javanese noun kembang.
Noun
bang
- flower
Lashi
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to shine”). Cognates include S'gaw Karen ဘီ (baw, “yellow”) and Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ/
Adjective
bang
- bright
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ/
- Rhymes: -baŋ, -aŋ
Etymology 1
From Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).
Noun
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
- adhan
- Synonym: azan
Etymology 2
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
Noun
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
- (colloquial) brother (older male sibling)
- Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda
Further reading
- “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Mandarin
Romanization
bang
- Nonstandard spelling of bāng.
- Nonstandard spelling of bǎng.
- Nonstandard spelling of bàng.
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.
Maranao
Noun
bang
- (Islam) adhan, call to prayer
References
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑːŋɡ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːŋɡ
Noun
bang ?
- a shout.
Old Norse
Etymology
Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.
Noun
bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)
- pounding, hammering, banging
Related terms
- banga
References
- “bang”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German bang, Dutch bang.
Adjective
bang
- afraid, scared, fearful
- timid
- uneasy
Romanian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
bang
- bang
Swedish
Adjective
bang
- scared, anxious
Noun
bang c
- A sudden percussive noise
Declension
Declension of bang | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bang | bangen | bangar | bangarna |
Genitive | bangs | bangens | bangars | bangarnas |
Tedim Chin
Pronoun
bang
- what
References
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
Tho
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baːŋ¹/
Noun
bang
- (Cuối Chăm) muntjac
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.
Noun
(classifier cái) bang
- (Vietnam) state (a political division of a federation)
- Thành phố Oklahoma là thủ phủ bang Oklahoma.
- Oklahoma City is the capital of the state of Oklahoma.
- bang Kê-ra-la trong nước Cộng hòa Ấn Độ
- the State of Kerala in the Republic of India
- Thụy Sĩ có 26 bang.
- Switzerland has 26 cantons.
Synonyms
- (state): tiểu bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)
Derived terms
- bang gia
- xuyên bang
Related terms
- liên bang
- tỉnh bang
Verb
bang
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit
- Synonyms: bá, tông
Etymology 3
Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.
Noun
bang
- (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China
- bang Phúc Kiến
- the Fukien Chinese expatriates' society
- Short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”).
- Short for bang biện (“assistant district chief”).
Derived terms
- bang trưởng
See also
- hội quán
References
- "bang" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋ˧/
Noun
bang
- wall
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41