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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 *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("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.

bang (plural bangs)

  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.
    • 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.
    • 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.]
  1. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  2. (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
    There was a bang of onions off his breath.
  3. (slang) A thrill.

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a sudden percussive noise

a strike upon an object causing such a noise

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.
  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.
  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).
  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) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
    You know I still bang.

to make sudden loud noises

slang: to engage in sexual intercourse

to cut hair squarely across

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.

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!”

verbal percussive sound

bang (uncountable)

  1. Archaic spelling of bhang.
Acehnese Spelling
EBAYD bang
Husaini
Jawoe بڠ

Borrowed from Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/).

bang (Jawoe spelling بڠ)

  1. adhan (Islamic call to prayer)
    Synonym: (rare) adan

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

bang (Jawoe spelling بڠ)

  1. Term of address for brother or any older male
    cutbang ― older brother

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

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

  1. afraid

From English bank.

bang

  1. A bank (clarification of this definition is needed)
    • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎[3], →ISBN, page 344:

From English bang.

bang

  1. accident

Onomatopoeic.

bang

  1. bang (the sound of an explosion or a gun)
    • 2018 — Majan ,Erlando Ligan, Kabanyaga ni Apelitot (12 December), Superbalita
      Apan sa usa ka lawak sa motel, may bayot nga nasuko kaniya. Gitiunan[_sic_] siyag pistola sa iyang agtang. “Dako na akog nagasto kanimo. Gituytoy mo akog maayo, apan nangita ka gihapon og lain. Giingnan tikawng gimahal ko ikaw, apan wala mo ako mahala. Tapuson nato ang atong kinabuhi karon!” Bang! Bang! Bang! Nagsunod-sunod ang mga buto sa pistola.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

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
Declension of bang
uninflected bang
inflected bange
comparative banger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bang banger het bangsthet bangste
indefinite m./f. sing. bange bangere bangste
n. sing. bang banger bangste
plural bange bangere bangste
definite bange bangere bangste
partitive bangs bangers —

Of onomatopoeic origin, possibly from English bang.

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

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

bang

  1. bang

bang m (plural bangs)

  1. sonic boom
  2. bong (marijuana pipe)

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.

bang (strong nominative masculine singular banger, comparative banger or bänger, superlative am bangsten or am bängsten)

  1. scared, frightened, afraid, fearful
    Synonym: ängstlich
    • 1851, Heinrich Heine, “Lazarus”, in Romanzero‎[4], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
      Und ist man tot, so muß 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 regelmäßig 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[5] (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:
      Trübe Tage wechselten mit bangen Nächten. Das Leben war schwer.
      Dismal days turned into fearful nights. Life was difficult.

Comparative forms of bang

Superlative forms of bang

bang

  1. A beating or brash sound

Inherited from Old Norse [Term?].

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

  1. pounding, hammering, banging

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

bang

  1. Title or term of address for brother
    Bang Erwin, mau ke mana? ― Brother Erwin, where are you going?

Onomatopoeic

bang

  1. a sudden percussive noise

From Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/).[1]

bang (plural **bang-bang)

  1. (obsolete) adhan
    Synonym: azan
  1. ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018), “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)

  1. (swimming) stroke, single effort
    Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar
  2. effort, (vigorous) movement

From Old Irish bang (“ban, interdict”).

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

  1. ban, interdict, taboo
  2. restraint

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

  1. alternative form of banc (“bank”)

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.

bang

  1. romanization of ꦧꦁ

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

bang

  1. adhan

From Dutch band.

bang

  1. tire

From Dutch bank.

bang

  1. bank

bang

  1. track, path

Borrowed from Persian بانگ (“voice, sound, noise, cry”).

bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, plural **bang-bang or **bang2)

  1. adhan
    Synonym: azan

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

bang (Jawi spelling بڠ, uncountable)

  1. (informal) A form of address to any man slightly older than oneself. - bro, bruv, mate
    Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda
    Bungkus mi tu, bang: Pack the noodles [as takeaway], bruv

bang

  1. nonstandard spelling of bāng
  2. nonstandard spelling of bǎng
  3. nonstandard spelling of bàng

Borrowed from Malay bang, from Persian بانگ (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ʿʾng /⁠vāng⁠/). Compare Tausug bāng.

bang

  1. (Islam) adhan, call to prayer

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ba(a)ŋ.

bang

  1. wall

bang ?

  1. a shout.

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

bang n (genitive bangs, plural bǫng)

  1. pounding, hammering, banging

Pennsylvania German

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Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

bang

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

Onomatopoeic.

bang

  1. bang

From Middle Low German bange, formed from be- + enge (from Old Saxon engi, angi (“narrow”)). Related to English angst and anger.

bang

  1. scared, anxious

bang c

  1. A sudden percussive noise

Borrowed from English bang, from Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”).

bang (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ᜔)

  1. bang (a sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.)

Compare dang and budang.

bang (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ᜔) (dialectal, Rizal)

  1. used with a quality for emphasis and to give it an adjectival meaning
    Synonyms: ang, (Cavite) dang, (Nueva Ecija) budang
    Bang sarap ng pagkain!
    The food is very delicious!

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling بَڠْ)

  1. if
    Bang siya diꞌ magad lumanjal na kita.
    If he won’t go with us we’d better proceed.

bang (Sulat Sūg spelling بَڠْ)

  1. when; at (or as soon as) that time that; if
    Bang siya mari patagara.
    When she comes let her wait (for me).

From Proto-Tai *C̥.baːŋᴬ (“thin (not thick)”). Cognate with Lao ບາງ (bāng), Shan မၢင် (mǎang) or ဝၢင် (wǎang), Tai Nüa ᥛᥣᥒ (maang), Ahom 𑜈𑜂𑜫 (baṅ), Zhuang mbang. Compare Sui qbaangl, Southern Kam mangl, Thai บาง (baang) and Proto-Be *viaŋᴬ¹ (“thin (not thick)”) (> ɓiaŋ¹~viaŋ¹ across the different lects).

bang

  1. thin
    slửa bang ― thin shirt
  2. sparse
    doòng ỏi bang ― sparse clumps of sugar cane
  3. rare
    rườn lục bang ― a family with few children
  4. weak
    mốc bang ― weak stomach
  5. ashamed
    nả bang ― easily ashamed

bang

  1. what

From Proto-Vietic *t-ɓaːŋ.

bang

  1. (Cuối Chăm) muntjac

Sino-Vietnamese word from 邦.

(classifier cái) bang

  1. (Vietnam) state (a political division of a federation)
    Thành phố Oklahoma là thủ phủ bang Oklahoma.
    Oklahoma City is the capital of the state of Oklahoma.
    bang Kê-ra-la trong nước Cộng hòa Ấn Độ
    the State of Kerala in the Republic of India
    Thụy Sĩ có 26 bang.
    Switzerland has 26 cantons.

bang

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit
    Synonyms: bá, tông

Sino-Vietnamese word from 幫.

bang

  1. (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China
    bang Phúc Kiến
    the Fukien Chinese expatriates' society
  2. short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”)
  3. short for bang biện (“assistant district chief”)

Derived from Japanese 晩 (ban, “night”)

bang

  1. night
  2. evening

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bàng

  1. what?

Bang khat.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓaaŋ. Cognate with Mizo bǎng.

ba̋ng

  1. wall

bang

  1. arm