dang

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dăng, IPA(key): /dæŋ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

Verb

dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

  1. (euphemistic) Damn.

Interjection

dang

  1. (euphemistic) Damn.

Adjective

dang (not comparable)

  1. (euphemistic) Damn.
Synonyms
Translations

Etymology 2

See ding.

Verb

dang

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense of ding

Etymology 3

Verb

dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dash.
    Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage - Christopher Marlowe

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

A lengthening of danë, Gheg variant of darë. Compare Old High German zanga (“tongs”).

Noun

dang f

  1. a bite, nip

Luxembourgish

Verb

dang

  1. second-person singular imperative of dangen

Manam

Noun

dang

  1. water

References

Mandarin

Romanization

dang (Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄤ)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of dāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of dǎng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of dàng.

Usage notes

  • 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.

Northern Haida

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d̥aŋ/

Pronoun

dang

  1. you
    haaw-gwaa dang qaaguhla-gii? (in songs or storytelling)
    /haːw.ɡ̊waː d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhla.ɡ̊i/
    there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)
    Have you left?
    kuu-gu dang qaaguhl-gii? (in speech)
    /kʰːu.ɡ̊u d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhl.ɡ̊i/
    there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)
    Have you left?

References

  • John Enrico, Northern Haida Songs

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *taang (“to extend, stretch”); cognate with Khmer ត្រដាង (trɑdaang, “to stretch out limbs”).

Pronunciation

Verb

dang

  1. (of limbs) to stretch out
  • dạng (“to stretch out”)
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