harang

Etymology

See harangue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹæŋ/ (US)
• Rhymes: -æŋ

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• Hyphenation: ha‧rang

Noun

harang (plural harangs)

1. Alternative spelling of harangue
   • 1679, ?, The Life of the Renowned Peter D’Aubuſſon, Grand Maſter of Rhodes, page 187:

     He concluded his Harang in a lively and perſwaſive manner, […]

   • 1906, William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, The World’s Famous Orations, volume 2, Funk and Wagnalls Company, page 169:

     […] , whom he had posed within hearing of his harang.

   • 1987, Sir John Finet, Albert Joseph Loomie, Ceremonies of Charles I: the note books of John Finet, 1628-1641, Fordham University Press, page 156:

     […] he was receyved in the Presence (the ambassador entering fyrst for the conveniencey found by yt at the former audience of the Sweden) [47^v] made his harang in Italian with interpretation of the Queens secretary […]

   • 1906,, “On the Treaty with Great Britain”, in William Jennings Bryan, editor, The World’s Famous Orations, Vol VIII‎, HTML edition, Bartleby, published 2003:

     … or to furnish petty topics of harang from the windows of that State House?

Verb

harang (third-person singular simple present harangs, present participle haranging, simple past and past participle haranged)

1. Alternative spelling of harangue To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone
   • 1915, Emily Calvin Blake, Suzanna Stirs the Fire‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:

     "Have you been listening to Reynolds haranging on his soap box?"

   • 1986, Geoff Dench, Minorities in the Open Society: Prisoners of Ambivalence and Containment‎, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 45:

     Instead of haranging their hosts with evidence of failed promises, …

   • 2010, John J. Browne Ayes, Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy‎, →ISBN, page 513:

     It took a lot of effort and haranging in the ensuing weeks that followed but Juan Ponce had the two men arrested and shipped off to Spain to stand trial.

   • 2011 October 20, Peter Apps, London, “Death of Libya's Gaddafi Avoids Awkward Trial”, in Reuters‎, retrieved 2013-04-29:

     Any trial might have given the flamboyant, often idiosyncratic Gaddafi a podium from which to harang both Libya's new rulers and Western powers, …

Anagrams

• hangar

Etymology

Connections with Proto-Turkic *koŋrak (“bell”) or *kaŕgan (“cauldron”) (see Bashkir ҡыңғырау (qïñğïraw) and Turkish kazan respectively) are usually proposed, however neither etymology is without problems.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒrɒŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: ha‧rang

Noun

harang (plural harangok)

1. bell

   Akiért a harang szól - For Whom the Bell Tolls (a novel by Ernest Hemingway)