pang

See also: pāng, páng, pǎng, and pàng

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology

From Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, pronge (“pang, throe, stab, prick, etc.”), as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death-pangs”).

Alternatively, compare Old English pyngan (“to prick”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: păng, IPA(key): /pæŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

pang (plural pangs)

  1. (often pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, act 3, sc. 3,
      See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
    • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iv], page 269:
      He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
    • 1888, Oscar Wilde, "The Nightingale and the Rose" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales,
      So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
  2. (often pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow
    • 1867, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Guardian Angel, ch. 7,
      He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.

Translations

Verb

pang (third-person singular simple present pangs, present participle panging, simple past and past participle panged)

  1. (transitive) to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering
    • 1918, Christopher Morley, "On Unanswering Letters" in Mince Pie,
      It panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.

Translations

Further reading

  • pang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • pang in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Estonian

Noun

pang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. bucket

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Javanese

Noun

pang

  1. branch

Ludian

Noun

pang

  1. handle

Mandarin

Romanization

pang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of páng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pàng.

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.

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) paun
  • (Sutsilvan) pàn
  • (Vallader) pan

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pang m

  1. (Surmiran) bread

Noun

pang m (plural pangs)

  1. (Surmiran) loaf of bread

Swedish

Interjection

pang

  1. bang (verbal percussive sound)

Noun

pang n

  1. bang, explosion
    • 1887, August Strindberg, Hemsöborna
      när plötsligen det hördes ett pang! utanför på gården och rasslet av glasskärvor.
      when suddenly they heard a bang! outside in the yard and the sound of broken glass.
    Han vaknade med ett pang.
    He woke up with a bang.
  2. (colloquial, dated) pension house, hotel; Contraction of pensionat.

Usage notes

  • The Swedish translation of John Cleese's Fawlty Towers (1975), "Pang i bygget" (1979) is a pun based on both definitions.

Declension

Declension of pang 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pang panget pang pangen
Genitive pangs pangets pangs pangens

Veps

Noun

pang

  1. handle
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