different between bhang vs behang

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi ???? / Urdu ?????? (bh??g).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?/, /ba?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bhang (uncountable)

1.  (India, Kenya, Uganda, else slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36:

     Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.

Irish

Noun

bhang

1. Lenited form of bang.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English *behangen, behongen, bihangien, bihengen, from Old English beh?n (“to hang round”), equivalent to be- +? hang. Cognate with Dutch behangen (“to decorate”), German behängen (“to hang, drape, decorate”).

Verb

behang (third-person singular simple present behangs, present participle behanging, simple past and past participle behung)

1. (transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
   • 1824, Richard Johnson, The renowned history of the seven champions of Christendom:

     Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]

   • 1890, Robert Herrick, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides:

     And with rich clusters (hid among / The leaves) her temples I behung: […]

   • 1874, Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch's lives:

     Moreover, when they have introduced the bride, they spread a fleece under her; and she, having brought in with her a distaff and a spindle, all behangs her husband's door with woollen yarn?

Derived terms

• behung

Anagrams

• Ah Beng

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?????/
• Hyphenation: be?hang
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From behangen.

Noun

behang n (uncountable, diminutive behangetje n)

1. wallpaper

   Synonyms: behangpapier, behangselpapier

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

behang

1. first-person singular present indicative of behangen
2. imperative of behangen