vang

From Middle English vangen, southern variant of fangen (“to seize, catch”), from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen (“to catch”), Danish fange (“to catch”). More at fang.

vang (third-person singular simple present vangs, present participle vanging, simple past and past participle vanged)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) To take; undertake for.
2. (dialectal, as a godparent) To undertake for at the Font; be godfather or godmother to.

Borrowed from Dutch vangen (“to catch”).

vang (plural vangs)

1. (nautical) A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position

• boom vang

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From Proto-Albanian *uang-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen(H)g- (“to be bent, curved”). Cognate to Lithuanian vìngis (“bow, crooking”) and Old High German wankon (“to shake, totter, stagger”).

vang m

1. (b)rim, felloe

• vëth

• vëngëroj
• vëngër

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vang

1. first-person singular present indicative of vangen
2. imperative of vangen

• IPA^(key): /vɑːŋ/

vang

1. scarce
2. rare

• vàng

vang

1. cause
2. reason

From Old Norse vangr.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑŋː/

vang m (definite singular vangen, indefinite plural vangar, definite plural vangane)

1. a meadow, grassy area, grassy plain
   • 1868, Henrik Krohn, "Han Trond i Fjelli":

     […] fraa Hesten, som kneggjad til honom paa Vangen.

     […] from the horse, that neighed to him on the meadow.

• “vang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

vang (㘇)

1. to echo; to resound

Borrowed from French vin.

vang

1. (colloquial) Short for rượu vang (“wine”).

(classifier cây) vang (𣞁)

1. sappanwood (Biancaea sappan)