bang
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: băng; IPA(key): /bæŋ(ɡ)/
- (General American) enPR: bāng; IPA(key): /beɪŋ(ɡ)/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -æŋ, -eɪŋ
- Homophone: bhang
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), 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.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.
Alternative forms edit
- bangue (obsolete)
Noun edit
bang (plural bangs)
- A sudden percussive noise.
- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.
- 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:
- A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
- 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; 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 uncurled bang over her forehead
- (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- 1980, C.W. Wilkinson, Peter H. Clarke, Dorothy C.M. Wilkinson, Communicating through Letters and Reports, 7th edition, page 651:
- Incidentally, a useful abbreviation for "Exclamation point" is "Bang."
- (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.]
- 1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:
- Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
- 1952 January 19, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 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.
- (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, 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.
- 2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk, page 31:
- Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.
Synonyms edit
- strike, blow
- explosion
- (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark, pling
Antonyms edit
- (abrupt left turn): hang
Translations edit
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Verb edit
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, [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, spoken by Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Culver City, Calif.: TriStar Pictures; distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, published 1997, →ISBN:
- 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.
- (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 […]
- (slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
- (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
- (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
- (New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
- Bang a right at the next stoplight.
- (US, slang) Shortened form of gangbang, to participate in street gang criminal activity.
- You know I still bang.
Conjugation edit
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 |
Translations edit
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Adverb edit
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[1]:
- 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 edit
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:
- 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, 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 edit
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Derived terms edit
- (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 some heads together, 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, bang a uey, bang for one's buck
- (noun): bang bang chicken, bang path, bang for the buck, bang maid, 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, sonic bang, 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
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bang (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Acehnese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bang
- adhan (islamic call to prayer)
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch bang (“afraid”), from Middle Dutch banghe.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)
Bislama edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bang
- A bank
- 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech[2], →ISBN, page 344:
- Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bang
See also edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bang
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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.
- In Southern Dutch, the phrase schrik hebben is used as well besides bang zijn.
Inflection edit
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 edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.
Noun edit
bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)
- A sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun; bang
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
bang
Noun edit
bang m (plural bangs)
- sonic boom
- bong (marijuana pipe)
Further reading edit
- “bang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- bange (both are roughly equally common)
Etymology edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
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[3], 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.
- And when one is dead, one must lie long in the grave; I'm afraid / Yes, I'm afraid, the resurrection / Won't happen so quickly.
- 2001, Winfried Georg Sebald, 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 edit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
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 |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
Noun edit
bang
- Title or term of address for brother
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bang
- A sudden percussive noise.
Etymology 3 edit
From Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /vāng/).[1]
Noun edit
bang (first-person possessive bangku, second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- “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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- bang brollaigh (“breast-stroke”)
- bang thaoibh (“side-stroke”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).
Noun edit
bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)
- Alternative form of banc (“bank”)
Declension edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bang | bhang | mbang |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Entries containing “bang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
References edit
- 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, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
bang
- Romanization of ꦧꦁ
Lashi edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to shine”). Cognates include S'gaw Karen ဘီ (baw, “yellow”) and Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bang
References edit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Malay edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).
Noun edit
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
Noun edit
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
Further reading edit
- “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
bang
- Nonstandard spelling of bāng.
- Nonstandard spelling of bǎng.
- Nonstandard spelling of bàng.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Maranao edit
Noun edit
bang
References edit
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
Northern Kurdish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bang ?
- a shout.
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.
Noun edit
bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “bang”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
Compare German bang, Dutch bang.
Adjective edit
bang
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Interjection edit
bang
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German bange, formed from be- + enge (from Old Saxon engi, angi (“narrow”)). Related to English angst and anger.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
bang
Noun edit
bang c
- A sudden percussive noise
Declension edit
Declension of bang | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bang | bangen | bangar | bangarna |
Genitive | bangs | bangens | bangars | bangarnas |
Tedim Chin edit
Pronoun edit
bang
References edit
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
Tho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bang
- (Cuối Chăm) muntjac
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.
Noun edit
(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 edit
- (state): tiểu bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
bang
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit
Etymology 3 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.
Noun edit
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 edit
See also edit
References edit
- "bang" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
Zou edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bang
References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41