bang

• enPR: băng, IPA^(key): /bæŋ(ɡ)/

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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.

• bangue (obsolete)

bang (plural bangs)

1. A sudden percussive noise.

   When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.

2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
3. An explosion.
4. (US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.

   Tiffany has long hair and bangs.

   • (Can we date this quote?) W. D. Howells

     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

5. (US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

   An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.

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, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.

• strike, blow
• explosion
• (hair cut): fringe, bangs
• (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark

• (abrupt left turn): hang

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     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.

3. (slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.

   We can hear the couple banging upstairs.

   • 1996, Jay Mohr as Bob Sugar, Jerry Maguire, written by Cameron Crowe, 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 and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (film):

     Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!

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).
   • (Can we date this quote?) The Century Magazine

     His hair banged even with his eyebrows.

• (which sense?): nail

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:

     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.

bang

1. A sudden percussive sound

   He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"

• (verb): banger, gangbang
• (noun): bang for the buck, big bang
• (adverb): bang on, bang out of order, bang to rights, bang up / bang-up

bang (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)

• PC bang

• BGAN

From Dutch bang (“afraid”), from Middle Dutch banghe.

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

1. afraid

From English bank.

bang

1. A bank
   • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎, →ISBN, page 344:

     Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Onomatopoeic.

bang

1. the sound of an explosion or a gun

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:bang.

• IPA^(key): /bɑŋ/

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• Hyphenation: bang
• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

From Middle Dutch banghe, from be- + anghe, the latter is an adverbial form of enge (“narrow, confined”), compare angst (“fear”).

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

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.

• bevreesd, angstig, vruchtig, verschrikt

• angst, eng, engte

• Afrikaans: bang

• schrikken

Onomatopoeic.

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

1. sound of an explosion or gun; bang

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bang

1. bang

bang m (plural bangs)

1. sonic boom
2. bong (marijuana pipe)

• bange (both are roughly equally common)

From Middle High German bange, from be- + ange (“narrow, close”).

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

bang (comparative banger or bänger, superlative am bangsten or am bängsten)

1. scared, frightened, afraid, fearful
   • 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 […]

• ängstlich

From Old Norse [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /pauŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Rhymes: -auŋk

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

• banga

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Homophone: bank

bang

1. adhan

• azan

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Homophone: bank

bang

1. Title or term of address for brother

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Homophone: bank

bang

1. A sudden percussive noise.

• “bang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)

1. (swimming) stroke, single effort
2. effort, (vigorous) movement

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

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

1. ban, interdict, taboo
2. restraint

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

1. Alternative form of banc (“bank”)

• "bang" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 bang” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

bang

1. red

bang

1. region

bang

1. bank

bang

1. flower

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːŋ/

bang

1. a shout.

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/
• Rhymes: -baŋ, -aŋ

bang (plural bang-bang, informal first-person possessive bangku, informal second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)

1. brother (older male sibling)

• abang (bung)
• kakak
• engko
• nana
• uda

bang

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

• 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.

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

• banga

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

Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

bang

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

bang m (plural bangs)

1. (Brazil, slang, nonstandard) thingamajig, gizmo, thingy (something whose name is unknown)

• (something of unknown name): coisa, troço (Brazil), treco (Brazil), negócio (Brazil), bagulho (Brazil), bagaça (Brazil), trem, pira, cena (Portugal)

bang

1. scared, anxious

bang ?

1. A sudden percussive noise

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.

(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.

• (state): tiểu bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)

• liên bang
• tỉnh bang

bang

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit

   Synonyms: bá, tông

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.

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”).

• hội quán

• "bang" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)