fang

See also: Fang, fáng, fàng, fāng, Fāng, and fǎng

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: făng, IPA(key): /fæŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English fangen, 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”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”).

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

  1. (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
  2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
  3. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
  4. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
  5. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English fang, feng (“a catching, capture, seizing”), from Old English fang, feng (“grip, embrace, grasp, grasping, capture, prey, booty, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *fangą, *fangiz, *fanhiz (“catch, catching, seizure”), from *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ǵ- (“to fasten”). Cognate with Scots fang (“that which is taken, capture, catch, prey, booty”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśayati, “(s)he binds”)|tr=pāśáyati.

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
  2. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
  3. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
    • Evelyn
      the protuberant fangs of the yucca
  4. (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
  5. (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
  6. (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
  7. (nautical) The valve of a pump box.
Synonyms
  • (stolen goods): For semantic relationships of this sense, see booty in the Thesaurus.
Derived terms

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

Etymology 3

From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fængtōþ, fengtōþ (“canine tooth”, literally “snag-tooth, catch-tooth”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand.

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

  1. a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
  2. (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

  1. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
  2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
    • Philips
      chariots fanged with scythes

Catalan

Noun

fang m (plural fangs)

  1. mud

See also

Danish

Verb

fang

  1. imperative of fange
    1. Catch.
    2. Capture.
      Fang mig! ― Catch me!

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aŋ

Verb

fang

  1. Imperative singular of fangen.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fauŋk/
  • Rhymes: -auŋk

Noun

fang n (genitive singular fangs, nominative plural föng)

  1. embrace, hold, grasp
  2. (in the plural) provisions

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

fang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of fāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of fáng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of fǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of fàng.

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fang n (definite singular fanget, indefinite plural fang, definite plural fanga or fangene)

  1. lap

Verb

fang

  1. imperative of fange

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɑŋː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fang

Noun

fang n (definite singular fanget, indefinite plural fang, definite plural fanga)

  1. lap

Etymology 2

Verb

fang

  1. imperative of fanga

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fangą, *fangiz, *fanhiz (“catch, catching, seizure”), from *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɑnɡ/, [ˈfɑŋɡ]

Noun

fang m

  1. plunder, booty

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fang (compare Welsh gwanc (“voracity”))

Noun

fang f (genitive singular fainge, plural fangan)

  1. vulture
  2. raven

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “fang” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain

Noun

fang

  1. fank, sheep pen
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