different between gang vs mang

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?ng, IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-Germanic *gangan? (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step, walk”). Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.

Alternative forms

• gan

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To go; walk; proceed.
   • 1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy. Act III

     (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit ????? (já?has).

Noun

gang (plural gangs)

2. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

   the Gashouse Gang

   The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.

3. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.

   a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.

4. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.

   a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.

6. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.

   The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.

7. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.

   The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.

   Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.

8. (US) A chain gang.
9. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.

   a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.

10. A set; all required for an outfit.

    a new gang of stays.

11. (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.

    an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.

12. (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.

    a gang of wires

    Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.

13. (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
    • 1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes I.3:

      In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang

    • 1869, Papa André, Once a Week, page 418/1:

      That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.

    • 1895, Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl, Modern Language Association of America, page 229:

      Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies.

14. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
    • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, page 290:

      Þaða he to gange com.

Synonyms

• (outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: gangue
• ? Thai: ???? (g??ng)

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. (transitive) To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
   • 1981, United States. Department of Defense, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems (page 58)

     Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]

Derived terms

• gang up
• gang up on

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 3

See gan.

Verb

gang (second-person singular simple present gangst)

1. Pronunciation spelling of gan.

Etymology 4

Shortening of gangbang.

Verb

gang (third-person singular simple present gangs, present participle ganging, simple past and past participle ganged)

1. Synonym of gangbang: to have sex with a single partner as a gang.
   • 2015, Richard Allen, Skinhead, page 80:

     […] there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.

References

• The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

Etymology 5

Noun

gang (countable and uncountable, plural gangs)

1. (mining) Alternative form of gangue

Anagrams

• gnag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gang, from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang (plural gange)

1. a passageway, alley

Alemannic German

Verb

gang

1. second-person imperative singular of gaa

Balinese

Etymology

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”).

Noun

gang

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gang

Etymology 1

From English gang.

Noun

gang

1. a gang; a criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city

Etymology 2

From langga, pangga. Compare lang.

Noun

gang

1. a term of address for a beloved person; dear; sweetie

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gang.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??an??/, [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From Old Danish gang, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“stride, step”).

Noun

gang c (singular definite gangen, plural indefinite gange)

1. the act of walking, a walk
2. a time (an occurrence, an incidence)

   Hvor mange gange slog klokken?

   How many times did the bell toll?

3. a way or path to walk on, either outdoors or indoors (a corridor)

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See gange.

Verb

gang

1. imperative of gange

References

• “gang” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “gang” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Hyphenation: gang
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

gang m (plural gangen, diminutive gangetje n)

1. passageway, alley
2. gait, walk (person's manner of walking or stepping)
3. journey
4. hallway, corridor
5. course

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gang
• ? Indonesian: gang

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gang.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /????/
• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang, group of ill-doers

Derived terms

• en gang

Further reading

• “gang” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

gang

1. river

References

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 114

German

Verb

gang

1. obsolete form of geh, second-person imperative singular of gehen

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

gang (plural gangok)

1. (informal) hanging corridor (along the main walls of the courtyard of a tenement building, a major venue of socializing with neighbours)

   Synonym: (mainly as an architectural term) függ?folyosó

Declension

Derived terms

• gangos
• körgang

Further reading

• gang in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch gang (“passageway, alley”), from Middle Dutch ganc, from Old Dutch gank, gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Doublet of geng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Hyphenation: gang

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. alleyway, alley, narrow street. A narrow pathway bound by walls on both sides

   Synonym: lorong

Descendants

• ? Min Nan: ? (kàn, “narrow street”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gang (first-person possessive gangku, second-person possessive gangmu, third-person possessive gangnya)

1. Alternative spelling of geng (“gang”)

Verb

gang

1. Alternative spelling of geng

References

Further reading

• “gang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

• ganga, ghenga, ghega (dated)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?/

Noun

gang f (invariable, dated plural gangs)

1. gang, specifically:
   1. (dated) A group of people.
   2. (dated) A group of laborers under one foreman.
   3. A criminal group.

Related terms

• gangster

References

• gang in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Mandarin

Pronunciation

Romanization

gang

1. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gàng.

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

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural ganger, definite plural gangene)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett fra deg skoene i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

   I enden av den lange gangen er klasserommet.

   The classroom is at the end of the long corridor.

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkelig.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. time

    Vi vant fem ganger på rad!

    We won five times in a row!

11. plot, action

    Historiens gang var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

12. (mining) dike, lode
13. vein
14. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

References

• “gang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gangr, also related to gå.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

gang m (definite singular gangen, indefinite plural gangar, definite plural gangane)

1. hall, hallway

   Sett frå deg skorne i gangen.

   Leave your shoes in the hallway.

2. passage, corridor

3. aisle
4. walk, path
5. walk, walking, going
6. walk, gait

   Gangen hans er litt merkeleg.

   His gait is a bit weird

7. working, running, action, movement, motion, operation
8. course; passage
9. course; march
10. plot, action

    Gangen i soga var litt komplisert.

    The plot of the story was somewhat complicated.

11. (mining) dike, lode
12. vein
13. (anatomy) duct

Derived terms

See also

• gong

References

• “gang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• geng, gong, gung

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??eng?- (“to step; stride”). Related to Old English gangan (“to go, walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?/, [????]

Noun

gang m

1. going, walking
2. path
3. gait
4. toilet

Declension

Derived terms

• gangsetl
• gangst?l
• ingang
• niþergang
• ?pgang
• ?tgang
• ymbgang

Descendants

• Middle English: gang, gong
  • Scots: gang
  • English: gang, gong, goung
    • ? Dutch: gang
    • ? Portuguese: gangue
    • ? Norman: dgaîngue

Derived terms

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

Noun

gang m (plural ganga)

1. A path, course, way, journey; a going

Declension

Derived terms

• ubargang
• Wolfgang

Descendants

• Middle High German: ganc
  • German: Gang

Polish

Etymology

From English gang, from Middle English gang, from Old English gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??ong?-o-s, from *??eng?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ank/

Noun

gang m inan

1. gang (criminal group with a common background)

Declension

Related terms

• (nouns) gangster, gangsterstwo, gangsteryzm
• (adjective) gangsterski

Further reading

• gang in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gang in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

gang m (Portugal) or f (Brazil) (plural gangs)

1. Dated spelling of gangue.

Romanian

Etymology

From German Gang

Noun

gang n (plural ganguri)

1. passageway

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

• gae
• gan

Etymology

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan, Old Norse ganga, with inflected forms from Old English g?n (like English go).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

gang (third-person singular present gangs, present participle gaun, past gaed, past participle gaen)

1. To go.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red, Rose":

   And I will love thee still, my dear
   Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Spanish

Etymology

From English gang.

Noun

gang m (plural gangs)

1. gang

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a????]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *c-ka?? (“handspan”).

Noun

gang

1. a handspan

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *t-ka??, from Old Chinese ? (OC *C.k?a?) (B-S) (SV: c??ng).

Noun

gang

1. cast iron

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ?/

Etymology 1

Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.

Noun

mang

1. Alternative form of man (suggesting a Spanish accent)

Etymology 2

From Middle English mang, mangis, imang, emang, variants of Middle English on mang, in mange, from Old English on ?emang. More at among.

Preposition

mang

1. (Devon) Amid, amongst, among.

Etymology 3

From Middle English mangen, mængen, from Old English mængan, variant of mengan, men??an (“to mix; mingle”). More at meng, ming.

Verb

mang (third-person singular simple present mangs, present participle manging, simple past and past participle manged)

1. (Devon) To mix.

Quotations

Anagrams

• AMGN, G-man, Ngam

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?/

Noun

mang (uncountable)

1. (Cape Afrikaans) prison, jail

Verb

mang (present mang, present participle mangende, past participle gemang)

1. (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to be in prison, to do time

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mag

Etymology

Nasal (dialectal) variant of mag.

Noun

mang m (indefinite plural mangje, definite singular mangu, definite plural mangjet)

1. animal young, cub
2. urchin

Declension

Derived terms

• mangë
• mangët
• mangth, makth
• mangut

Cimbrian

Verb

mang

1. (Luserna, auxiliary) to be able to; can

References

• “mang” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German manc, inmanc and Middle Low German manc (“among”). Related with German mengen, English among.

Pronunciation

Preposition

mang (+ dative)

1. (regional, Northern Germany, chiefly colloquial, dated) among; amidst

Derived terms

• mittenmang (adverb; remains more common)

Low German

Preposition

mang

1. among, amongst

2. amidst

Inflection

Adverb

mang

1. among

Synonyms

• ünner

Mandarin

Romanization

mang

1. Nonstandard spelling of m?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of máng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of m?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of màng.

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

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian mangr, probably from East Norse.

Pronoun

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

1. In theory the base form of mange (“many”). Only used in the phrases mang ei f, mang en m, and mangt et.

References

• “mang en” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mange” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian mangr, probably from East Norse.

Pronoun

mang f or m (neuter mangt, plural mange)

1. In theory the base form of mange (“many”). Only used in the pronoun phrases mang ein m and mang ei f, and mangt eit n.

References

• “mang ein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “mange” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From manga (“to barter”).

Noun

mang n

1. barter, peddling

Declension

References

• mang in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Potawatomi

Noun

mang

1. loon

Sundanese

Noun

mang

1. uncle (form of address to a man by young people or children)

Tagalog

Etymology

From a Clipping of manong

Noun

mang

1. an informal term of address for an elderly man; mister

Synonyms

• manong
• manang
• kuya
• ate

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ma????]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ma????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ma????]

Etymology 1

Cognate with Muong bang.

Verb

mang • (?, ????)

1. to carry

2. to wear (footwear)

See also

Verb

mang • (????)

1. to be pregnant

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *k-ma??; cognate with Muong mang and Chut [R?c] kuma??¹. Compare Bahnar k?mang (“gill”).

Noun

(classifier cái) mang • (????)

1. (of a fish) gill
2. (of a cobra) hood

Derived terms

• r?n h? mang

Etymology 3

From Proto-Vietic *t-?a??.

Noun

(classifier con) mang • (????, ????)

1. muntjac

Synonyms

• ho?ng

Zhuang

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ma????/

• Tone numbers: mang¹
• Hyphenation: mang

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC m?æ?^X, “ferocious; violent; powerful”).

Adjective

mang (old orthography ma?)

1. brave; bold.

See also

• damzdingz
• lanh
• moegloet

Etymology 2

Noun

mang (old orthography ma?)

1. curse.