bang
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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 formsEdit
- bangue (obsolete)
NounEdit
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.
- 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."
- (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, 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.
SynonymsEdit
- strike, blow
- explosion
- (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark, pling
AntonymsEdit
- (abrupt left turn): hang
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
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, 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.
ConjugationEdit
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 |
TranslationsEdit
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AdverbEdit
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.
InterjectionEdit
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."
TranslationsEdit
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Derived termsEdit
- (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
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bang (uncountable)
- Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch bang (“afraid”), from Middle Dutch banghe.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)
BislamaEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bang
- A bank
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bang
See alsoEdit
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
bang
QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
AdjectiveEdit
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 notesEdit
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.
InflectionEdit
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 | — |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.
NounEdit
bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)
- A sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun; bang
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
bang
NounEdit
bang m (plural bangs)
- sonic boom
- bong (marijuana pipe)
Further readingEdit
- “bang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- bange (both are roughly equally common)
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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, 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 […]
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
Further readingEdit
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse [Term?].
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
NounEdit
bang
- Title or term of address for brother
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bang
- A sudden percussive noise.
Etymology 3Edit
From Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /vāng/).[1]
NounEdit
bang (first-person possessive bangku, second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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 readingEdit
- “bang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
IrishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- bang brollaigh (“breast-stroke”)
- bang thaoibh (“side-stroke”)
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).
NounEdit
bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)
- Alternative form of banc (“bank”)
DeclensionEdit
MutationEdit
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 readingEdit
- Entries containing “bang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
ReferencesEdit
- 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.
JavaneseEdit
Other scripts | |
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Carakan | ꦧꦁ |
Roman | bang |
Etymology 1Edit
From the Javanese adjective abang.
AdjectiveEdit
bang
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bang
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
bang
- bank (institution)
Etymology 4Edit
From the Javanese noun kembang.
NounEdit
bang
LashiEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“to shine”). Cognates include S'gaw Karen ဘီ (baw, “yellow”) and Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bang
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
MalayEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).
NounEdit
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
Etymology 2Edit
Clipping of abang (“brother”).
NounEdit
bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)
Further readingEdit
- “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
bang
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
MaranaoEdit
NounEdit
bang
ReferencesEdit
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
Northern KurdishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bang ?
- a shout.
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.
NounEdit
bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “bang”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Pennsylvania GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare German bang, Dutch bang.
AdjectiveEdit
bang
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
InterjectionEdit
bang
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bang
NounEdit
bang c
- A sudden percussive noise
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bang | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bang | bangen | bangar | bangarna |
Genitive | bangs | bangens | bangars | bangarnas |
Tedim ChinEdit
PronounEdit
bang
ReferencesEdit
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
ThoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bang
- (Cuối Chăm) muntjac
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.
NounEdit
(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.
SynonymsEdit
- (state): tiểu bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
bang
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit
Etymology 3Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- "bang" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
ZouEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bang
ReferencesEdit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41