bang

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Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American without /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋ/, [ˈbæŋ]
- Audio (US): (file)
(Standard Southern British, Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/
(Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/, (without the ng-coalescence) /ˈbaŋɡ/
(US, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈbeɪ̯ŋ], [ˈbɛ̃ŋ]
(Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbæːŋ/, [ˈbæːŋ], (/æ/ raising) [ˈbɛːŋ] ~ [ˈbeːŋ]
Rhymes: -æŋ
Hyphenation: bang
Homophone: bhang

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *bangōną

Old English *bangian

Old Norse bangabor.

Middle English *bangen

English bang

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”).

Cognates

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

bangue (obsolete)

Noun

bang (plural bangs)

A sudden percussive noise.
Synonyms: boom, report; see also Thesaurus:bang

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 heavy strike upon an object causing such a noise.
I gave the door a bang and it swung open.

That bang on his head has sent him funny.
(informal) An explosion.
When he pushed the detonator, the bang blew him off his feet.
(US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.
- 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.
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."
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is 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 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] 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

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strike, blow
explosion
(the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark, pling

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “abrupt left turn”): hang

Translations

a sudden percussive noise

Arabic: فَرْقَعَة f (farqaʕa)
Bulgarian: тря́сък (bg) m (trjásăk)
Catalan: esclat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 轟 / 轰 (zh) (hōng), 砰 (zh) (pēng), 哐 (zh) (kuāng)
Czech: rána (cs) f
Danish: brag n, knald
Dutch: knal (nl) m, klap (nl)
Finnish: pamaus (fi), paukahdus (fi), paukaus (fi)
French: coup (fr) m, détonation (fr) f
German: Knall (de) m
Greek: μπαμ (el) n (bam)
Ancient Greek: κτύπος m (ktúpos)
Hawaiian: pohā
Indonesian: dentuman (id)
Ingrian: paukku
Irish: pléasc f, plab m
Italian: botto (it) m, fragore (it) m, schiocco (it) m
Japanese: ズドン (zudon), ドスン (dosun), バン (ja) (ban), ドン (ja) (don)
Korean: 쾅 (ko) (kwang)
Manx: bleayst f
Māori: pakō, pohū, pahū
Norwegian:
Bokmål: smell (no) n or m

Nynorsk: smell n or m
Pitjantjatjara: piltalya(pa)
Polish: huk (pl) m, trzask (pl) m, łoskot (pl) m
Portuguese: estalo (pt) m, estrondo (pt) m
Russian: уда́р (ru) m (udár), треск (ru) m (tresk), бах (ru) m (bax), баба́х (ru) m (babáx)
Scots: blaff
Spanish: estallido (es) m, estruendo (es) m, chupinazo m
Swedish: smäll (sv)

a strike upon an object causing such a noise

Danish: brag n, knald
Dutch: klap (nl), slag (nl)
Finnish: paukahdus (fi), paukaus (fi)
French: coup (fr) m
Galician: golpe (gl), croque (gl) m
German: Schlag (de) m, Hieb (de) m
Greek: μπαμ (el) n (bam)
Icelandic: bang (is)
Italian: colpo (it) m, percussione (it) f
Old Norse: bang
Portuguese: pancada (pt) f
Scottish Gaelic: beum m
Spanish: golpe (es) m, zumbido (es) m, percusión (es) f, zarpazo (es) m
Swedish: smäll (sv)

an explosion

Bulgarian: взрив (bg) m (vzriv), експлозия (bg) f (eksplozija)
Czech: výbuch (cs) m
Danish: brag n, knald
Dutch: knal (nl) m, klap (nl), explosie (nl)
Finnish: räjähdys (fi)
French: détonation (fr) f, explosion (fr) f
German: Knall (de) m, Explosion (de) f
Greek: έκρηξη (el) f (ékrixi)
Indonesian: dentuman (id)
Italian: esplosione (it) f, scoppio (it) m, detonazione (it) f
Polish: wybuch (pl) m
Portuguese: explosão (pt) f
Scots: blaff
Spanish: explosión (es) f, detonación (es) f
Swedish: smäll (sv)
Turkish: patlama (tr)

hair hanging over the forehead

Chinese:
Mandarin: 劉海 / 刘海 (zh) (liúhǎi)
German: pony (de) m, Stirnfranse f
Portuguese: franja (pt) f
Russian: чёлка (ru) f (čólka)
Spanish: flequillo (es) m

the symbol !

Bulgarian: удивителна (bg) (udivitelna)
Czech: vykřičník (cs) m
Dutch: uitroepteken (nl)
Finnish: huutomerkki (fi)
French: point d'exclamation (fr) m
German: Ausrufzeichen n
Greek: θαυμαστικό (el) n (thavmastikó)
Hungarian: felkiáltójel (hu)
Italian: punto esclamativo m
Polish: wykrzyknik (pl)
Portuguese: ponto de exclamação (pt) m
Russian: восклица́тельный знак (ru) (vosklicátelʹnyj znak), восклица́тельный знак (ru) (vosklicátelʹnyj znak)
Spanish: signo de exclamación m
Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n

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Translations to be checked

Basque: ^{(please verify)} kolpe, ^{(please verify)} danbateko, ^{(please verify)} talka

Verb

bang (third-person singular simple present bangs, present participle banging, simple past and past participle banged)

(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
The fireworks banged away all through the night.

The door banged in the wind.

My head was banging after drinking all night at the concert.
(transitive) To hit (something) hard, making a loud noise.
She banged the table with her fist.

He banged the drum in sync with the band.

Hold the picture while I bang in this nail.
- 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.
(transitive) To cause or suffer (one thing) to hit (another).
The blacksmith banged the hammer on the anvil.

I banged my head on the ceiling.

He banged the door shut.
- 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.
(intransitive, generally with a preposition) To hit (on, against, etc. something).
Stop banging on the door. I heard you the first time!

My knee banged against the rung of the ladder.

David and Mary banged into each other.
(slang, ambitransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: nail, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with

We can hear the couple banging upstairs.
- 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!
(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
Synonyms: eat, rule, rock, slap; see also Thesaurus:excel

This song bangs!
(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) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
You know I still bang.
(sports) To play a sport aggressively.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *bang*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) bang

1st-person singular	bang	banged
2nd-person singular	bang, bangest^†	banged, bangedst^†
3rd-person singular	bangs, bangeth^†	banged
plural	bang	banged

subjunctive	bang	banged

imperative	bang	—

participles	banging	banged

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Translations

to make sudden loud noises

Bulgarian: гърмя (bg) (gărmja)
Danish: knalde, brage
Dutch: knallen (nl)
Esperanto: knali
Finnish: pamahdella (fi), paukkua (fi) (repeatedly, intransitive); paukuttaa (fi), räiskiä (fi) (repeatedly, transitive); pamahtaa (fi), paukahtaa (fi) (once, intransitive); pamauttaa (fi), paukauttaa (fi) (once, transitive)
French: claquer (fr), cogner (fr)
German: knallen (de)
Greek: χτυπώ (el) (chtypó)
Ingrian: paukkaa, paukkia, paukata
Irish: pléasc, plab
Italian: scoppiare (it), battere (it), picchiare (it), martellare (it)
Māori: pakō, pohū, pahū
Pitjantjatjara: piltalytjunanyi
Portuguese: estalar (pt)
Swedish: smälla (sv)

to hit hard

Finnish: paiskata (fi), paiskoa (fi), paiskia (fi)
French: cogner (fr), frapper (fr)
Galician: trucar (gl)
German: schlagen (de)
Greek: χτυπώ (el) (chtypó), βροντάω (el) (vrontáo)
Ingrian: jyryttää
Italian: battere (it), picchiare (it), martellare (it)

slang: to engage in sexual intercourse

Armenian: դոմփել (dompʻel)
Bulgarian: чукам (bg) (čukam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幹 / 干 (zh) (gàn)
Danish: knalde
Finnish: panna (fi)
French: baiser (fr), niquer (fr), tirer sa crampe (fr), faire an-an
German: bumsen (de), knallen (de), ficken (de)
Greek: πηδάω (el) (pidáo)
Ancient Greek: σποδέω (spodéō)
Indonesian: ngentot (slang)
Italian: scopare (it), fottere (it)
Japanese: やる (ja) (yaru) 寝る (ja) (neru), 食う (ja) (kuu), 犯す (ja) (okasu)
Latin: battuō
Norwegian:
Bokmål: knulle (no), pule (no)
Portuguese: comer (pt)
Russian: тра́хать (ru) (tráxatʹ), (intransitive) тра́хаться (ru) (tráxatʹsja)
Turkish: sikmek (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: سیكمك (sikmek), دوزمك (düzmek)
Vietnamese: chịch (vi), xoạc (vi), phang (vi)

to hammer

Finnish: vasaroida (fi), paukuttaa (fi)
French: marteler (fr)
German: einschlagen (de)
Greek: σφυροκοπώ (el) (sfyrokopó)
Icelandic: banga (is)
Italian: martellare (it), colpire (it), battere (it)
Old Norse: banga
Portuguese: martelar (pt)
Scottish Gaelic: buail

to cut hair squarely across

German: einen Pony schneiden

Adverb

bang (not comparable)

(informal) 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.
(informal) Precisely, exactly, completely.
He arrived bang on time.
- 2026 August 19, Vitali Vitaliev, “Europe by Rail”, in RAIL, number 1068, page 68:
  As always, this 19th EBR edition is full of bang-up-to-date useful facts.
(informal) With a sudden impact.
Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
(informal) Used as a general intensifier.
I'm bang up for it! (I'm very keen and willing to do it)

She's bang on it today. (She's on very good form today)

Interjection

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

verbal percussive sound

Bashkir: шарт (şart)
Basque: tanpa, danba (eu)
Bulgarian: па (pa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 砰 (zh) (pēng)
Danish: bang (da)
Finnish: pam (fi)
French: pan (fr)
Galician: pum
German: peng (de)
Greek: μπαμ (el) (bam)
Italian: pam, pum
Japanese: ボーン (ja) (bōn)
Korean: 빵 (ko) (ppang), 팡 (ko) (pang)
Lithuanian: pyst
Portuguese: bangue (pt), cabum (pt)
Romanian: pac (ro)
Russian: бац (ru) (bac), бах (ru) (bax), бух (ru) (bux), бум (ru) (bum), трах (ru) (trax), баба́х (ru) (babáx), бам (ru) (bam)
Serbo-Croatian: бум, bum (sh)
Spanish: pum (es)
Swedish: pang (sv)
Thai: ปัง (th) (bpang), โป้ง (th) (bpôong), บึ้ม (th) (bʉ̂m)
Turkish: pat (tr)
Walloon: panf (wa)

Derived terms

(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, bang into
(noun): bang bang chicken, PC bang, 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, tap, rack, bang, the whole bang shoot, whiz-bang / whizz-bang / whizbang

more derived terms (dump! Needs sorting)

Etymology 2

Noun

bang (uncountable)

Archaic spelling of bhang.

Anagrams

BGAN

Acehnese

Acehnese Spelling
EBAYD	bang
Husaini	bang
Jawoe	بڠ

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baŋ/
Hyphenation: bang

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/).

Noun

bang (Jawoe spelling بڠ)

adhan (Islamic call to prayer)
Synonym: (rare) adan

Bèk reunyôh, teungöh ureueng bang
Don't be noisy while someone is reciting the call to prayer

Etymology 2

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang (Jawoe spelling بڠ)

Term of address for brother or any older male
cutbang ― older brother

References

“بڠ”, in Kamus Aceh Indonesia [Acehnese-Indonesian Dictionary] (Seri K; 85), Seri 1. A-L [Volume 1. A-L] (eBook; overall work in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1985, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34
“bang”, in Woordenboek der Atjehsche Taal [Dictionary of the Acehnese Language]‎^[2] (overall work in Dutch), Den Haag: 's Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff, 1889, page 56

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baŋ/
Audio: (file)

Adjective

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

afraid

Bislama

Etymology 1

From English bank. Cognate with Pijin benk and Tok Pisin beng.

Noun

bang

(finance) bank (institution)
Mi go long bang blong tekem aot mane.
I'm going to the bank to withdraw money.
- 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎^[3] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 344:
  Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
  The bank wants me to pay a fine because I am in overdraft.

Derived terms

bangbuk, bukbang (“bankbook, passbook”)

Etymology 2

From English bang. Cognate with Pijin banga; compare also Tok Pisin bam.

Noun

bang

(chiefly transport) accident, collision (unexpected event resulting in damage or injury)
Synonyms: aksidong, akseden

Trak i mekem wan bang long rod.
The truck had an accident on the road.

Verb

bang (transitive bangem) (intransitive)

(chiefly transport) to collide, to have an accident, to hit
Synonym: sper

Ka i bangem trak long kona.
The car collided with a truck at the corner.
to bump, to stub (one's leg or toe) [transitive]
Mi bangem leg blong mi long ston.
I stubbed my leg on a stone.
(of time) to approach, to be near, to [transitive]
Synonym: go faen

Naoia hem i sikis minit blong go bangem seven klok.
Now it is six minutes to seven o'clock.

References

Crowley, Terry (2003), A New Bislama Dictionary, 2nd edition, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, →ISBN, page 44

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang

bang (the sound of an explosion or a gun)
- 2018 — Majan ,Erlando Ligan, Kabanyaga ni Apelitot (12 December), Superbalita
  Apan sa usa ka lawak sa motel, may bayot nga nasuko kaniya. Gitiunan^[sic] siyag pistola sa iyang agtang. “Dako na akog nagasto kanimo. Gituytoy mo akog maayo, apan nangita ka gihapon og lain. Giingnan tikawng gimahal ko ikaw, apan wala mo ako mahala. Tapuson nato ang atong kinabuhi karon!” Bang! Bang! Bang! Nagsunod-sunod ang mga buto sa pistola.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑŋ/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: bang
Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Etymology 1

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

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

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.

Declension

Declension 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

bevreesd, angstig, schrikachtig, vruchtig, verschrikt

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: bang
Berbice Creole Dutch: banggi
Jersey Dutch: bāng
Negerhollands: bang, baṅ

Etymology 2

Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.

Noun

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

a sharp, percussive sound, like the sound of an explosion or gun; bang

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑ̃ɡ/
Audio: (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France): (file)

Interjection

bang

bang

Noun

bang m (plural bangs)

sonic boom
bong (marijuana pipe)

German

Alternative forms

bange (both are roughly equally common)

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /baŋ/
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)
Rhymes: -aŋ

Adjective

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^[4], 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.
- 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎^[5] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
  Trübe Tage wechselten mit bangen Nächten. Das Leben war schwer.
  Dismal days turned into fearful nights. Life was difficult.
- 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

Positive forms of *bang*
number & gender		singular			plural
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
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
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
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
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
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

angst und bang

Related terms

Gullah

Alternative forms

'bang, 'bang'bang

Etymology

From Vai gbaŋ ("loudly") and Mende (Sierra Leone) baŋgo-baŋgo ("noisily").

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑŋ/

Noun

bang

A beating or brash sound

References

Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse [Term?].

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpauŋk]
Rhymes: -aŋ
Rhymes: -auŋk
Rhymes: -aŋː

Noun

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

pounding, hammering, banging

Declension

Declension of *bang* (sg-only neuter)
	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	bang	bangið
accusative	bang	bangið
dative	bangi	banginu
genitive	bangs	bangsins

Related terms

banga

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

bang

Wikipedia ^id

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/ [ˈbaŋ]
Rhymes: -aŋ
Syllabification: bang
Homophone: bank

Etymology 1

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang

apheretic form of abang (“title or term of address for brother”)
Bang Erwin, mau ke mana? ― Brother Erwin, where are you going?

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

bang

a sudden percussive noise

Etymology 3

From Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/).^[1]

Noun

bang (plural bang-bang)

(obsolete) adhan
Synonym: azan

Derived terms

mengebangkan

References

^ 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

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)

(swimming) stroke, single effort
Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar
effort, (vigorous) movement

Declension

Declension of bang (third declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	bang	banganna
vocative	a bhang	a bhanganna
genitive	banga	banganna
dative	bang	banganna

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an bang	na banganna
genitive	an bhanga	na mbanganna
dative	leis an mbang don bhang	leis na banganna

Derived terms

bang brollaigh (“breast-stroke”)
bang thaoibh (“side-stroke”)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

ban, interdict, taboo
restraint

Declension

Declension of bang (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	bang	banga
vocative	a bhang	a bhanga
genitive	bainge	bang
dative	bang	banga

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an bhang	na banga
genitive	na bainge	na mbang
dative	leis an mbang don bhang	leis na banga

Etymology 3

Noun

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

alternative form of banc (“bank”)

Declension

Declension of bang (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	bang	baing
vocative	a bhaing	a bhanga
genitive	baing	bang
dative	bang	baing

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an bang	na baing
genitive	an bhaing	na mbang
dative	leis an mbang don bhang	leis na baing

Mutation

Mutated forms of *bang*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
bang	bhang	mbang

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bang”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
“stroke”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Javanese

Romanization

bang

romanization of ꦧꦁ

Makasar

Etymology 1

From Classical Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).

Noun

bang

adhan

Etymology 2

From Dutch band.

Noun

bang

tire

Etymology 3

From Dutch bank.

Noun

bang

bank

Etymology 4

Noun

bang

track, path

References

Arief, Aburaerah (1995), Kamus Makassar–Indonesia, Ujung Pandang: Yayaan Perguruan Islam Kapita, page 31

Malay

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/ [ˈbaŋ]
Rhymes: -baŋ, -aŋ
Hyphenation: bang

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural bang-bang)

(Islam) azan; the Islamic call to prayer.
Synonym: azan

Dia segera ke masjid apabila mendengar bang.
He hurried to the mosque when he heard the call to prayer.

Verb

bang (Jawi spelling بڠ)

(Islam) to call the azan; to call to prayer.
Synonym: azan

Bilal sedang bang waktu Maghrib.
The muezzin is calling the azan for Maghrib time.

Derived terms

Affixations

berbang (“to call the azan”)

Descendants

Indonesian: bang
→ Acehnese: bang
→ Maranao: bang
→ Tausug: bāng

Etymology 2

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, uncountable)

(colloquial) brother; bro; mate (a familiar term of address for an older male, a male friend, or a husband).
Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda

Terima kasih, bang.
Thank you, bro.

Bang Ali sedang minum kopi.
Brother Ali is drinking coffee.

Related terms

Mandarin

Romanization

bang

nonstandard spelling of bāng
nonstandard spelling of bǎng
nonstandard spelling of bàng

Usage notes

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/). Compare Tausug bāng.

Noun

bang

(Islam) adhan, call to prayer

References

Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[7] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ba(a)ŋ.

Noun

bang

wall

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɑːŋɡ/
Rhymes: -ɑːŋɡ

Noun

bang ?

a shout.

Old Norse

Etymology

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

Noun

bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)

pounding, hammering, banging

Related terms

banga

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

Adjective

bang

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

bang

bang

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German bange, formed from be- + enge (from Old Saxon engi, angi (“narrow”)). Related to English angst and anger.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Adjective

bang

scared, anxious

Noun

bang c

A sudden percussive noise

Declension

Declension of **bang**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bang	bangs
singular	definite	bangen	bangens
plural	indefinite	bangar	bangars
plural	definite	bangarna	bangarnas

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/ [ˈbaŋ]
Rhymes: -aŋ
Syllabification: bang

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bang, 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”).

Interjection

bang (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ᜔)

bang (a sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.)

Alternative forms

beng

Etymology 2

Compare dang and budang.

Particle

bang (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ᜔) (dialectal, Rizal)

used with a quality for emphasis and to give it an adjectival meaning
Synonyms: ang, (Cavite) dang, (Nueva Ecija) budang

Bang sarap ng pagkain!
The food is very delicious!

Tausug

Pronunciation

(Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /baŋ/ [ˈbaŋ]
Rhymes: -aŋ
Syllabification: bang

Conjunction

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling بَڠْ)

if
Bang siya diꞌ magad lumanjal na kita.
If he won’t go with us we’d better proceed.

Preposition

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling بَڠْ)

when; at (or as soon as) that time that; if
Bang siya mari patagara.
When she comes let her wait (for me).

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *C̥.baːŋᴬ (“thin (not thick)”). Cognate with Lao ບາງ (bāng), Shan မၢင် (mǎang) or ဝၢင် (wǎang), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥒ (maang), Ahom 𑜈𑜂𑜫 (baṅ), Zhuang mbang. Compare Sui qbaangl, Southern Kam mangl, Thai บาง (baang) and Proto-Be *viaŋᴬ¹ (“thin (not thick)”) (> ɓiaŋ¹~viaŋ¹ across the different lects).

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːŋ˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːŋ˦]

Adjective

bang

thin
slửa bang ― thin shirt
sparse
doòng ỏi bang ― sparse clumps of sugar cane
rare
rườn lục bang ― a family with few children
weak
mốc bang ― weak stomach
ashamed
nả bang ― easily ashamed

Derived terms

References

Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[8][9] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Tedim Chin

Pronoun

bang

what

References

Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

Tho

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baːŋ¹/

Noun

bang

(Cuối Chăm) muntjac

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.

Noun

bang (classifier cái)

(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

(state): tiểu bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

bang

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

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.

Noun

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

bang trưởng

References

Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “bang”, in Việt–Việt‎^[10] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024

West Frisian

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch bang.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ/

Adjective

bang

scared, anxious, frightened
timid, apprehensive

Inflection

Inflection of bang
uninflected	bang
inflected	bange
comparative	banger
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bang	banger	it bangst it bangste
indefinite	c. sing.	bange	bangere	bangste
	n. sing.	bang	banger	bangste
	plural	bange	bangere	bangste
definite		bange	bangere	bangste
partitive		bangs	bangers	—

Yilan Creole

Alternative forms

ban

Etymology

Derived from Japanese 晩 (ban, “night”)

Noun

bang

Synonyms

yoru

References

Chien Yuehchen (2023), “Yilan Creole”, in Handbook of Formosan Languages Online: The Indigenous Languages of Taiwan‎^[11], number 44, →ISSN
Peng Qiu (2015), A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole‎^[12] (Master's thesis)
林愷娣 [Lin Kaidi] (2022), A basic description of Yilan Creole phonology: with a special focus on the Aohua dialect‎^[13] (Unpublished thesis)
真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015), “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in 奈良大学紀要 [Memoirs of Nara University]‎^[14] (in Japanese), number 43

Zou

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bʌ̀ŋ]
Hyphenation: bàng

Pronoun

bàng

what?

Etymology 2

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓaaŋ. Cognate with Mizo bǎng.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bǎːŋ]
Hyphenation: bang

Noun

ba̋ng

wall

References

Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 42; 137
Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41; 200

Zyphe

Noun

bang

arm

References

Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎^[15]

[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

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