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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bang"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: b?ng; IPA^(key): /b??(ɡ)/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ba?/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /b?n/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: bhang

Etymology 1

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From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōn? (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish b?nga ("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)

sound of a banging metallic door

1. 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'.

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 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: ????????? f (farqa?a)
• Bulgarian: тря?сък (bg) m (trjásǎk)
• 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: κτ?πο? 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: ? (ko) (kwang)
• Manx: bleayst f
• Maori: pakō, pohū, pahū
• Norwegian:

  Bokm?l: smell (no) n or m

  Nynorsk: smell n or m

• Pitjantjatjara: piltalya(pa)
• Polish: huk (pl) m, trzask (pl) m, ?oskot (pl) m
• Portuguese: estalo (pt) m, estrondo (pt) m
• Russian: уда?р (ru) m (udár), треск (ru) m (tresk), бах (ru) m (bax), баба?х (ru) m (babáx)
• Scots: blaff
• Spanish: estallido (es) m, estruendo (es) m, chupinazo m
• Swedish: sm?ll (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: sm?ll (sv)

an explosion

• Bulgarian: взрив (bg) m (vzriv), експлозия (bg) f (eksplozija)
• Czech: vybuch (cs) m
• Danish: brag n, knald
• Dutch: knal (nl) m, klap (nl), explosie (nl)
• Finnish: r?j?hdys (fi)
• French: détonation (fr) f, explosion (fr) f
• German: Knall (de) m, Explosion (de) f
• Greek: ?κρηξη (el) f (ékrixi)
• Indonesian: dentuman (id)
• Italian: esplosione (it) f, scoppio (it) m, detonazione (it) f
• Polish: wybuch (pl) m
• Portuguese: explos?o (pt) f
• Scots: blaff
• Spanish: explosión (es) f, detonación (es) f
• Swedish: sm?ll (sv)
• Turkish: patlama (tr)

hair hanging over the forehead

• German: pony (de) m, Stirnfranse f
• Portuguese: franja (pt) f
• Russian: чёлка (ru) f (?ólka)

the symbol !

• Bulgarian: удивителна (bg) (udivitelna)
• Czech: vyk?i?ník (cs) m
• Dutch: uitroepteken (nl)
• Finnish: huutomerkki (fi)
• French: point d'exclamation (fr) m
• German: Ausrufzeichen n
• Greek: θαυμαστικ? (el) n (thavmastikó)
• Hungarian: felkiáltójel (hu)
• Italian: punto esclamativo m
• Polish: wykrzyknik (pl)
• Portuguese: ponto de exclama??o (pt) m
• Russian: восклица?тельный знак (ru) (vosklicátel?nyj znak), восклица?тельный знак (ru) (vosklicátel?nyj znak)
• Spanish: signo de exclamación m
• Swedish: utropstecken (sv) n

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• 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)

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. (ambitransitive) 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.

3. (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!

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).
   • c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni:

     His hair banged even with his eyebrows.

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

   Synonyms: eat, rule, rock, slap; see also Thesaurus:excel

   This song bangs!

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

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

to make sudden loud noises

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

to hit hard

• Finnish: paiskata (fi), paiskoa (fi), paiskia (fi)
• French: cogner (fr), frapper (fr)
• Galician: trucar (gl)
• German: schlagen (de)
• Greek: χτυπ? (el) (chtypó), βροντ?ω (el) (vrontáo)
• Ingrian: jyrytt??
• Italian: battere (it), picchiare (it), martellare (it)

slang: to engage in sexual intercourse

• Armenian: ?????? (domp?el)
• Bulgarian: чукам (bg) (?ukam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幹 / 干 (zh) (gàn)

• Danish: knalde
• Finnish: panna (fi)
• French: baiser (fr), niquer (fr), tirer sa crampe (fr)
• German: bumsen (de), knallen (de), ficken (de)
• Greek: πηδ?ω (el) (pidáo)

  Ancient: σποδ?ω (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
• Ottoman Turkish: ????? (sikmek), ????? (düzmek)
• Portuguese: comer (pt)
• Russian: тра?хать (ru) (tráxat?), (intransitive) тра?хаться (ru) (tráxat?sja)
• Turkish: sikmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: ch?ch (vi), xo?c (vi), phang (vi)

to hammer

• Finnish: vasaroida (fi), paukuttaa (fi)
• French: marteler (fr)
• German: einschlagen (de)
• Greek: σφυροκοπ? (el) (sfyrokopó)
• Icelandic: banga
• 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 (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

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!”

   • 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 (?art)
• 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 (bōn)
• Korean: ? (ko) (ppang), ? (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), баба?х (ru) (babáx), бам (ru) (bam)
• Serbo-Croatian: бум, bum (sh)
• Spanish: pum (es)
• Swedish: pang (sv)
• Thai: ??? (th) (bpang), ???? (th) (bp?ong), ???? (th) (b??m)
• 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, 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)

• bangable
• bangbus
• bang from the buck
• bangle
• bangless
• bang on the drum
• bangorrhea
• bangsome
• bangstick
• bangtail
• bang the drum for
• bangy
• bebang
• fingerbang
• flash-to-bang time
• hashbang
• headbang
• kerbang
• shebang
• sidebang
• slambang
• strambang

Etymology 2

Noun

bang (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”).

See also

• PC bang

Anagrams

• BGAN

Acehnese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bang, from Persian ???? (bang, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian ???????? (??ng /?vāng?/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bang

1. adhan (islamic call to prayer)

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

• Audio:

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Adjective

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

1. afraid

Bislama

Etymology 1

From English bank.

Noun

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

From English bang.

Noun

bang

1. accident

See also

• aksidong

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang

1. the sound of an explosion or a gun

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ?/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bang
• Rhymes: -ɑ?

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)

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

• 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

• bangbroek
• bangelijk
• bangepoeperd
• bangerik
• bangheid
• bangig
• bangmakerij
• doodsbang

Related terms

• angst
• eng
• engte

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bang
• Berbice Creole Dutch: banggi
• Jersey Dutch: bāng
• Negerhollands: bang, ba?

See also

• schrikken

Etymology 2

Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.

Noun

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ?ɡ/

• Audio:

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Interjection

bang

1. bang

Noun

bang m (plural bangs)

1. sonic boom
2. bong (marijuana pipe)

Further reading

• “bang”, in Trésor de la langue fran?aise informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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): /ba?/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

bang (strong nominative masculine singular banger, comparative banger or b?nger, superlative am bangsten or am b?ngsten)

1. scared, frightened, afraid, fearful

   Synonym: ?ngstlich

   • 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Lazarus”, in Romanzero‎^[3], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:

     Und ist man tot, so mu? 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 regelm??ig 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 […]

   • 1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten‎^[4] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:

     Trübe Tage wechselten mit bangen N?chten. Das Leben war schwer.

     Dismal days turned into fearful nights. Life was difficult.

Declension

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 b?nger	sie ist banger sie ist b?nger	es ist banger es ist b?nger	sie sind banger sie sind b?nger
strong declension (without article)	nominative	bangerer b?ngerer	bangere b?ngere	bangeres b?ngeres	bangere b?ngere
	genitive	bangeren b?ngeren	bangerer b?ngerer	bangeren b?ngeren	bangerer b?ngerer
	dative	bangerem b?ngerem	bangerer b?ngerer	bangerem b?ngerem	bangeren b?ngeren
	accusative	bangeren b?ngeren	bangere b?ngere	bangeres b?ngeres	bangere b?ngere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der bangere der b?ngere	die bangere die b?ngere	das bangere das b?ngere	die bangeren die b?ngeren
	genitive	des bangeren des b?ngeren	der bangeren der b?ngeren	des bangeren des b?ngeren	der bangeren der b?ngeren
	dative	dem bangeren dem b?ngeren	der bangeren der b?ngeren	dem bangeren dem b?ngeren	den bangeren den b?ngeren
	accusative	den bangeren den b?ngeren	die bangere die b?ngere	das bangere das b?ngere	die bangeren die b?ngeren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein bangerer ein b?ngerer	eine bangere eine b?ngere	ein bangeres ein b?ngeres	(keine) bangeren (keine) b?ngeren
	genitive	eines bangeren eines b?ngeren	einer bangeren einer b?ngeren	eines bangeren eines b?ngeren	(keiner) bangeren (keiner) b?ngeren
	dative	einem bangeren einem b?ngeren	einer bangeren einer b?ngeren	einem bangeren einem b?ngeren	(keinen) bangeren (keinen) b?ngeren
	accusative	einen bangeren einen b?ngeren	eine bangere eine b?ngere	ein bangeres ein b?ngeres	(keine) bangeren (keine) b?ngeren

Superlative forms of bang

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am bangsten er ist am b?ngsten	sie ist am bangsten sie ist am b?ngsten	es ist am bangsten es ist am b?ngsten	sie sind am bangsten sie sind am b?ngsten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	bangster b?ngster	bangste b?ngste	bangstes b?ngstes	bangste b?ngste
	genitive	bangsten b?ngsten	bangster b?ngster	bangsten b?ngsten	bangster b?ngster
	dative	bangstem b?ngstem	bangster b?ngster	bangstem b?ngstem	bangsten b?ngsten
	accusative	bangsten b?ngsten	bangste b?ngste	bangstes b?ngstes	bangste b?ngste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der bangste der b?ngste	die bangste die b?ngste	das bangste das b?ngste	die bangsten die b?ngsten
	genitive	des bangsten des b?ngsten	der bangsten der b?ngsten	des bangsten des b?ngsten	der bangsten der b?ngsten
	dative	dem bangsten dem b?ngsten	der bangsten der b?ngsten	dem bangsten dem b?ngsten	den bangsten den b?ngsten
	accusative	den bangsten den b?ngsten	die bangste die b?ngste	das bangste das b?ngste	die bangsten die b?ngsten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein bangster ein b?ngster	eine bangste eine b?ngste	ein bangstes ein b?ngstes	(keine) bangsten (keine) b?ngsten
	genitive	eines bangsten eines b?ngsten	einer bangsten einer b?ngsten	eines bangsten eines b?ngsten	(keiner) bangsten (keiner) b?ngsten
	dative	einem bangsten einem b?ngsten	einer bangsten einer b?ngsten	einem bangsten einem b?ngsten	(keinen) bangsten (keinen) b?ngsten
	accusative	einen bangsten einen b?ngsten	eine bangste eine b?ngste	ein bangstes ein b?ngstes	(keine) bangsten (keine) b?ngsten

Derived terms

• angst und bang

Further reading

• “bang” in Digitales W?rterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bang” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau?k/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -au?k
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Declension

Declension of bang (sg-only neuter)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	bang	bangie
accusative	bang	bangie
dative	bangi	banginu
genitive	bangs	bangsins

Related terms

• banga

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /?ba?/ [?ba?]
• Rhymes: -a?
• Syllabification: bang
• Homophone: bank

Etymology 1

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang

1. Title or term of address for brother

   Bang Erwin, mau ke mana? ― Brother Erwin, where are you going?

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

bang

1. a sudden percussive noise

Etymology 3

From Malay bang, from Persian ???? (bang, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian ???????? (??ng /?vāng?/).

Noun

bang (plural bang-bang)

1. (obsolete) adhan

   Synonym: azan

Derived terms

• mengebangkan

Further reading

• “bang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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)

1. (swimming) stroke, single effort

   Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar

2. 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)

1. ban, interdict, taboo
2. 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)

1. 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.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bang”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

References

• ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bang”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, 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, 2013–2025

Javanese

Romanization

bang

1. romanization of ??

Makasar

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bang

1. adhan

Etymology 2

From Dutch band.

Noun

bang

1. tire

Etymology 3

From Dutch bank.

Noun

bang

1. bank

Etymology 4

Noun

bang

1. track, path

References

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

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -ba?, -a?

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ??, plural bang-bang)

1. adhan

   Synonym: azan

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ??, plural bang-bang)

1. (colloquial) brother (older male sibling)

   Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda

Further reading

• “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

bang

1. nonstandard spelling of bāng
2. nonstandard spelling of bǎng
3. 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 ???? (bang, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian ???????? (??ng /?vāng?/). Compare Tausug bāng.

Noun

bang

1. (Islam) adhan, call to prayer

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ??ɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑ??ɡ

Noun

bang ?

1. a shout.

Old Norse

Etymology

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

Noun

bang n (genitive bangs, plural b?ng)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Related terms

• banga

Further reading

• Zo?ga, Geir T. (1910), “bang”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

Adjective

bang

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

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

bang

1. 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:

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Adjective

bang

1. scared, anxious

Noun

bang c

1. A sudden percussive noise

Declension

Declension of bang

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

Tausug

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ba?/ [?ba?]
• Rhymes: -a?
• Syllabification: bang

Conjunction

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling ????)

1. if

   Bang siya di? magad lumanjal na kita.

   If he won’t go with us we’d better proceed.

Preposition

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling ????)

1. 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 *C?.ba??? (“thin (not thick)”). Cognate with Lao ??? (bāng), Shan ???? (mǎang) or ???? (wǎang), Tai Nüa ??? (maang), Ahom ?????? (ba?), Zhuang mbang. Compare Sui qbaangl, Southern Kam mangl, Thai ??? (baang) and Proto-Be *via??1 (“thin (not thick)”) (> ?ia?1~via?1 across the different lects).

Pronunciation

• (Th?ch An – Tràng ??nh) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [?a???]

Adjective

bang

1. thin

   sl?a bang ― thin shirt

2. sparse

   doòng ?i bang ― sparse clumps of sugar cane

3. rare

   r??n l?c bang ― a family with few children

4. weak

   m?c bang ― weak stomach

5. ashamed

   n? bang ― easily ashamed

Derived terms

• bang bjém
• bang bính
• bang bít
• n? bang
• x?ng bang

References

• L??ng Bèn (2011), T? ?i?n Tày-Vi?t [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xu?t b?n ??i h?c Thái Nguyên

Tedim Chin

Pronoun

bang

1. what

References

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

Tho

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-?a??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??1/

Noun

bang

1. (Cu?i Ch?m) muntjac

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??a????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??a????]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [??a????]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.

Noun

(classifier cái) bang

1. (Vietnam) state (a political division of a federation)

   Thành ph? Oklahoma là th? ph? bang Oklahoma.

   Oklahoma City is the capital of the state of Oklahoma.

   bang Kê-ra-la trong n??c C?ng hòa ?n ??

   the State of Kerala in the Republic of India

   Th?y S? có 26 bang.

   Switzerland has 26 cantons.

Synonyms

• (state): ti?u bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)

Derived terms

• bang gia
• xuyên bang

Related terms

• liên bang
• t?nh bang

Etymology 2

Verb

bang

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

   Synonyms: bá, t?ng

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.

Noun

bang

1. (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China

   bang Phúc Ki?n

   the Fukien Chinese expatriates' society

2. short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”)
3. short for bang bi?n (“assistant district chief”)

Derived terms

• bang tr??ng

See also

• h?i quán

References

• H? Ng?c ??c, editor (2003), “bang”, in Vi?t–Vi?t‎^[7] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Noun

bang

1. wall

References

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

Zyphe

Noun

bang

1. arm

References

• Samson Alexander Lotven (2021) The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (Dissertation)‎^[8]