bang

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle English*bangen,fromOld English*bangianor borrowed fromOld Norsebanga(to pound, hammer);both fromProto-Germanic*bangōną(to beat, pound),fromProto-Indo-European*bʰen-(to beat, hit, injure).Cognate withScotsbang,bung(to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend),Icelandicbanga(to pound, hammer),Old Swedishbånga("to hammer"; whence modernSwedishbanka(to knock, pound, bang)),Danishbanke(to beat),bengel(club),Low Germanbangen,bangeln(to strike, beat),West Frisianbingel,bongel,Dutchbengel(bell; rascal),GermanBengel(club),bungen(to throb, pulsate).

In the sense of a fringe of hair, frombang off.

In the sense ofabrupt left turn,fromBoston leftand associated risk of a crash.

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Noun

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bang(pluralbangs)

  1. A suddenpercussivenoise.
    When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loudbang.
    • 1992,Bob Magor,Blood on the Board,page39:
      A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang'and 'bloop'.
  2. Astrikeupon an object causing such anoise.
  3. Anexplosion.
  4. (US,archaic)Synonym ofbangs:hairhangingover theforehead,especiallyahairstylewithsuchhaircutstraightacross.
    Tiffany has long hair andbangs.
    • 1880,William Dean Howells,The Undiscovered Country:
      his hair cut in front like a young lady'sbang
    • 1902,Barbara Baynton,Squeaker's Mate;reprinted in Carmel Bird, editor,The Penguin Century of Australian Stories,2000,→ISBN:
      She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurledbangover her forehead
  5. (chieflyUS)The symbol!,known as anexclamation point.
    Ane-mailaddress with an! is called abangpath.
    • 1980,C.W. Wilkinson, Peter H. Clarke, Dorothy C.M. Wilkinson,Communicating through Letters and Reports,7th edition, page651:
      Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
  6. (mathematics)Afactorial,in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  7. (vulgar,slang)An act ofsexual intercourse.
  8. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  9. (slang,mining)An explosive product.
    Load thebanginto the hole.
  10. (slang)Aninjection,ashot(of anarcoticdrug).[from 20th c.]
    • 1951December 20,William S. Burroughs,“To Allen Ginsberg”, inOliver Harris,editor,The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959,New York: Penguin, published1993,→ISBN,page98:
      Of course, I take abangor some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
    • 1952January 19,William S. Burroughs,“To Allen Ginsberg”, inOliver Harris,editor,The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959,New York: Penguin, published1993,→ISBN,page101:
      As for myself, I take abangnow and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother.
  11. (slang,US,Boston area)An abrupt left turn.
  12. (Ireland,colloquial,slang)strongsmell(of)
    There was abangof onions off his breath.
  13. (slang)Athrill.
    • 1951,J. D. Salinger,The Catcher in the Rye,Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company,→OCLC,page38:
      I hate the movies like poison, but I get abangimitating them.
    • 1993,Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman,Hypocritic Days & Other Tales,page40:
      "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
      "It gives me abang,even a biggerbangthan this, "Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.
    • 2000,James Hadley Chase,Make the Corpse Walk,page31:
      Yes, he got abangout of cheating Rollo.
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Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) ofabrupt left turn):hang
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Verb

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bang(third-person singular simple presentbangs,present participlebanging,simple past and past participlebanged)

  1. (intransitive)To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
    The fireworksbangedaway all through the night.
    Stopbangingon the door. I heard you the first time!
    My head wasbangingafter drinking all night at the concert.
  2. (transitive,intransitive)To hit hard.
    Hebangedthe door shut.
    David and Marybangedinto each other.
  3. (slang,transitive,intransitive,vulgar)To engage insexual intercourse.
    We can hear the couplebangingupstairs.
    Synonyms:nail,do it,have sex;see alsoThesaurus:copulate,Thesaurus:copulate with
  4. (with "in")Tohammeror tohitanything hard.
    Hold the picture while Ibangin this nail.
  5. (transitive)To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  6. (transitive,slang,drugs)Toinjectintravenously.
    Do you smoke meth? No, Ibangit.
  7. (finance,transitive,dated)To depress the prices in (a market).
    • 1821,Bank of England,The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers...,page64:
      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 conjointlybangedthe 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,volume50,page1138:
      []the London "Bears" have promptly banged the market again[]
  8. (slang,transitive,obsolete)Toexcelorsurpass.
  9. (intransitive,stative,slang)To beexcellent;to bebanging
    This songbangs!
    Synonyms:eat,rule,rock,slap
  10. (Nigeria,slang)Tofail,especially anexam;toflunk.
  11. (New England,slang,intransitive)To make aturnin a vehicle; tohang a right,left,oruey.
    Banga right at the next stoplight.
  12. (US,slang)Shortened form ofgangbang,to participate in street gang criminal activity.
    You know I stillbang.
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Adverb

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bang(comparativemorebang,superlativemostbang)

  1. Right,directly.
    The passenger door wasbangagainst the garage wall.
    • 2011September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, inBBC Sport[1]:
      After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili frombangin front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.
  2. Precisely.
    He arrivedbangon time.
  3. With a sudden impact.
    Distracted, he ranbanginto the opening door.

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bang

  1. Asuddenpercussivesound,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!"
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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bang(uncountable)

  1. Alternative form ofbhang(cannabis)

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Acehnese

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key):/baŋ/

Noun

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bang

  1. adhan(islamic call to prayer)

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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FromDutchbang(afraid),fromMiddle Dutchbanghe.

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bang(attributivebange,comparativebanger,superlativebangste)

  1. afraid

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Etymology 1

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FromEnglishbank.

Noun

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bang

  1. Abank
    • 2008,Miriam Meyerhoff,Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech[2],→ISBN,page344:
      Bangi wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
      (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)

Etymology 2

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FromEnglishbang.

Noun

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bang

  1. accident
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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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bang

  1. the sound of anexplosionor agun

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Dutchbanghe,frombe-+anghe.The latter word is an adverbial form ofenge(narrow, confined),compareangst(fear).See alsoMiddle Low Germanbange,Middle High Germanbange,Germanbang,West Frisianbang.

Adjective

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bang(comparativebanger,superlativebangst)

  1. scared,frightened
    Wees maar nietbang.
    Please don't beafraid.
    Ik benbangvoor het donker!
    I amscaredof the dark!
  2. fearful
  3. anxious
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  • The adjective is accompanied withzijn(to be); for example:Ik ben bang"I am afraid". Usage withhebben(to have) also occurs - for example:Ik heb bang- but is generally proscribed as a contamination withik heb angst.
  • In Southern Dutch, the phraseschrikhebbenis used as well besidesbang zijn.
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Declension ofbang
uninflected bang
inflected bange
comparative banger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bang banger hetbangst
hetbangste
indefinite m./f.sing. bange bangere bangste
n.sing. bang banger bangste
plural bange bangere bangste
definite bange bangere bangste
partitive bangs bangers
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans:bang
  • Berbice Creole Dutch:banggi
  • Jersey Dutch:bāng
  • Negerhollands:bang,baṅ
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Etymology 2

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Ofonomatopoeicorigin, possibly fromEnglishbang.

Noun

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bangm(pluralbangen,diminutivebangetjen)

  1. A sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun;bang

French

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bang

  1. bang

Noun

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bangm(pluralbangs)

  1. sonic boom
  2. bong(marijuana pipe)

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German

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Alternative forms

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  • bange(both are roughly equally common)

Etymology

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Originally an adverb, cf.mir ist bange.FromMiddle High Germanbange,an enlargement (with the prefixbe-) ofange,Old High Germanango(narrowly, anxiously),an adverb ofengi(narrow),fromProto-Germanic*anguz.

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bang(strong nominative masculine singularbanger,comparativebangerorbänger,superlativeambangstenorambängsten)

  1. scared,frightened,afraid,fearful
    Synonym:ängstlich
    • 1851,Heinrich Heine,“Lazarus”, inRomanzero[3],Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
      Und ist man tot, so muß man lang / Im Grabe liegen; ich binbang,/ Ja, ich binbang,das Auferstehen / Wird nicht so schnell von Statten gehen.
      And when one is dead, one must lie long in the grave; I'mafraid/ Yes, I'mafraid,the resurrection / Won't happen so quickly.
    • 2001,Winfried Georg Sebald,Austerlitz,Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag,→ISBN,page376:
      []wenn sie, was mich stets in einebangeStimmung 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 ofdread,wasn’t in Paris, I regularly set off to reconnoitre the outlying districts of the city[]

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Further reading

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  • bang”inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • bang”in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon

Icelandic

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Etymology

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FromOld Norse[Term?].

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bangn(genitive singularbangs,no plural)

  1. pounding,hammering,banging

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Indonesian

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IndonesianWikipediahas an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping ofabang(brother).

Noun

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bang

  1. Title or term of address forbrother
    BangErwin, mau ke mana?BrotherErwin, where are you going?

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic

Noun

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bang

  1. A sudden percussive noise.

Etymology 3

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FromMalaybang,fromPersianبانگ(bâng,voice,sound,noise,cry),fromMiddle Persian𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢(ʿʾng/⁠vāng⁠/).[1]

Noun

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bang(first-person possessivebangku,second-person possessivebangmu,third-person possessivebangnya)

  1. (obsolete)adhan
    Synonym:azan
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  1. ^Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, inJournal of Cultural Relation(in Persian),pages117-144

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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(Thisetymologyis missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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bangm(genitive singularbanga,nominative pluralbanganna)

  1. (swimming)stroke,singleeffort
    Synonyms:béim,buille,oscar
  2. effort,(vigorous) movement
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Irishbang(ban, interdict).

Noun

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bangf(genitive singularbainge,nominative pluralbanga)

  1. ban,interdict,taboo
  2. restraint
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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bangm(genitive singularbaing,nominative pluralbaing)

  1. Alternative form ofbanc(bank)
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bang bhang mbang
Note:Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Javanese

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Romanization

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bang

  1. Romanization ofꦧꦁ

Lashi

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Etymology

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FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*hwaŋ(to shine).Cognates includeS'gaw Karenဘီ(baw,yellow)andBurmeseဝင်း(wang:,bright).

Pronunciation

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bang

  1. bright

References

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  • Hkaw Luk (2017)A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4],Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

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FromPersianبانگ(voice,sound,noise,cry).

Noun

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bang(Jawi spellingبڠ,pluralbang-bang,informal 1st possessivebangku,2nd possessivebangmu,3rd possessivebangnya)

  1. adhan
    Synonym:azan

Etymology 2

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Clippingofabang(brother).

Noun

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bang(Jawi spellingبڠ,pluralbang-bang,informal 1st possessivebangku,2nd possessivebangmu,3rd possessivebangnya)

  1. (colloquial)brother(older male sibling)
    Synonyms:abang(bung),kakak,engko,nana,uda

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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bang

  1. Nonstandardspelling ofbāng.
  2. Nonstandardspelling ofbǎng.
  3. Nonstandardspelling ofbàng.

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  • Transcriptionsof Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonaldifferences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maranao

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Noun

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bang

  1. (Islam)adhan,call to prayer

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Northern Kurdish

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Noun

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bang?

  1. ashout.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeicor unknown origin.

Noun

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bangn(genitivebangs,pluralbǫng)

  1. pounding,hammering,banging
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References

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  • bang”,inGeir T. Zoëga (1910)A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,Oxford: Clarendon Press

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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CompareGermanbang,Dutchbang.

Adjective

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bang

  1. afraid,scared,fearful
  2. timid
  3. uneasy

Romanian

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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bang

  1. bang

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Low Germanbange,formed frombe-+enge(fromOld Saxonengi, angi(narrow)). Related toEnglishangstandanger.

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bang

  1. scared,anxious

Noun

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bangc

  1. A suddenpercussivenoise

Declension

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Declension ofbang
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bang bangen bangar bangarna
Genitive bangs bangens bangars bangarnas

Tày

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Etymology

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FromProto-Tai*C̥.baːŋᴬ(thin (not thick)).Cognate withLaoບາງ(bāng),Shanမၢင်(mǎang)orဝၢင်(wǎang),Tai Nüaᥛᥣᥒ(maang),Ahom𑜈𑜂𑜫(baṅ),Zhuangmbang.CompareSuiqbaangl,Southern Kammangl,Thaiบาง(baang)andProto-Be*viaŋᴬ¹(thin (not thick))(>ɓiaŋ¹~viaŋ¹across the different lects).

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bang

  1. thin
    slửabangthinshirt
  2. sparse
    doòng ỏibangsparseclumps of sugar cane
  3. rare
    rườn lụcbanga family withfewchildren
  4. weak
    mốcbangweakstomach
  5. ashamed
    nảbangeasilyashamed

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References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011)Từ điển Tày-Việt[Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[5][6](in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Tedim Chin

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Pronoun

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bang

  1. what

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  • Zomi Ordbogbased on the work of D.L. Haokip

Tho

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Etymology

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FromProto-Vietic*t-ɓaːŋ.

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bang

  1. (Cuối Chăm)muntjac

Vietnamese

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Sino-Vietnameseword fromBang.

Noun

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(classifiercái)bang

  1. (Vietnam)state(a political division of a federation)
    Thành phố Oklahoma là thủ phủbangOklahoma.
    Oklahoma City is the capital of the state of Oklahoma.
    bangKê-ra-la trong nước Cộng hòa Ấn Độ
    the State of Kerala in the Republic of India
    Thụy Sĩ có 26bang.
    Switzerland has 26 cantons.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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bang

  1. (Central Vietnam,Southern Vietnam)tocrashinto; tocollidewith; tohit
    Synonyms:,tông

Etymology 3

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Sino-Vietnameseword fromBang.

Noun

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bang

  1. (historical)communityofoverseas ChineseinFrench Indochinawho emigrated from the same province ofChina
    bangPhúc Kiến
    theFukienChinese expatriates' society
  2. Short forbang tá(assistant district chief).
  3. Short forbang biện(assistant district chief).
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Zou

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Noun

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bang

  1. wall

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou,Canchipur: Manipur University, page41