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bang

See also: bàng, bâng, bāng, băng, bằng, bảng, bǎng, and bång

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

bang (plural bangs)

  1. 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'.
  2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  3. An explosion.
  4. (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
  5. (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
    An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
    • 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."
  6. (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  7. (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  8. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  9. (slang, mining) An explosive product.
    Load the bang into the hole.
  10. (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.
  11. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  12. (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
    There was a bang of onions off his breath.
  13. (slang) A thrill.
    • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: 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
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Antonyms edit
  • (antonym(s) of "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)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
    He banged the door shut.
    David and Mary banged into each other.
  3. (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
  4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
    Hold the picture while I bang in 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) To inject intravenously.
    Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.
  7. (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 […]
  8. (slang, transitive, obsolete) To excel or surpass.
  9. (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
    This song bangs!
    Synonyms: eat, rule, rock, slap
  10. (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
  11. (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.
  12. (US, slang) Shortened form of gangbang, to participate in street gang criminal activity.
    You know I still bang.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of bang
infinitive (to) bang
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.

Translations edit

Adverb edit

bang (comparative more bang, superlative most bang)

  1. 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.
  2. Precisely.
    He arrived bang on time.
  3. With a sudden impact.
    Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.

Interjection edit

bang

  1. 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!"
Translations edit

Derived terms edit

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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

bang (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)

See also edit

Anagrams edit

Acehnese edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): /baŋ/

Noun edit

bang

  1. 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)

  1. afraid

Bislama edit

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Etymology 1 edit

From English bank.

Noun edit

bang

  1. 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

From English bang.

Noun edit

bang

  1. accident
See also edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Noun edit

bang

  1. the sound of an explosion or a gun

Quotations edit

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)

  1. scared, frightened
    Wees maar niet bang.
    Please don't be afraid.
    Ik ben bang voor het donker!
    I am scared of the dark!
  2. fearful
  3. 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
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
  • Afrikaans: bang
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: banggi
  • Jersey Dutch: bāng
  • Negerhollands: bang, baṅ
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.

Noun edit

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

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

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

bang

  1. bang

Noun edit

bang m (plural bangs)

  1. sonic boom
  2. bong (marijuana pipe)

Further reading edit

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)

  1. 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

Positive forms of bang
number & gender singular plural
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
Comparative forms of bang
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
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
Superlative forms of bang
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
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 edit

Further reading edit

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

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse [Term?].

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

  1. pounding, hammering, banging

Declension edit

declension of bang
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative bang bangið
accusative bang bangið
dative bangi banginu
genitive bangs bangsins

Related terms edit

Indonesian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun edit

bang

  1. Title or term of address for brother

Etymology 2 edit

Onomatopoeic

Noun edit

bang

  1. 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)

  1. (obsolete) adhan
    Synonym: azan
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ 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 (in Persian), pages 117-144

Further reading edit

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)

  1. (swimming) stroke, single effort
    Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar
  2. effort, (vigorous) movement
Declension edit
Declension of bang

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bang banganna
Vocative a bhang a bhanganna
Genitive banga banganna
Dative bang banganna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bang na banganna
Genitive an bhanga na mbanganna
Dative leis an mbang

don bhang

leis na banganna
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).

Noun edit

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

  1. ban, interdict, taboo
  2. restraint
Declension edit
Declension of bang

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bang banga
Vocative a bhang a bhanga
Genitive bainge bang
Dative bang banga

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhang na banga
Genitive na bainge na mbang
Dative leis an mbang

don bhang

leis na banga

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

  1. Alternative form of banc (“bank”)
Declension edit
Declension of bang

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bang baing
Vocative a bhaing a bhanga
Genitive baing bang
Dative bang baing

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bang na baing
Genitive an bhaing na mbang
Dative leis an mbang

don bhang

leis na baing

Mutation edit

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.

Further reading edit

References edit

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

bang

  1. 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

  1. bright

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)

  1. adhan
    Synonym: azan

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)

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

Further reading edit

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

bang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of bǎng.
  3. 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

  1. (Islam) adhan, call to prayer

References edit

Northern Kurdish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bang ?

  1. a shout.

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

Noun edit

bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)

  1. pounding, hammering, banging

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

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

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

bang

  1. 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

Adjective edit

bang

  1. scared, anxious

Noun edit

bang c

  1. A sudden percussive noise

Declension edit

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

Tedim Chin edit

Pronoun edit

bang

  1. what

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

  1. (Cuối Chăm) muntjac

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.

Noun edit

(classifier cái) bang

  1. (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
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

bang

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit
    Synonyms: bá, tông

Etymology 3 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.

Noun edit

bang

  1. (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China
    bang Phúc Kiến
    the Fukien Chinese expatriates' society
  2. Short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”).
  3. Short for bang biện (“assistant district chief”).
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
See also edit

References edit

Zou edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bang

  1. wall

References edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41
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