different between nang vs nan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Noun

nang (plural nangs)

1. (Australia, slang) A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream.
   • 1996 March 5, Justin O'Brien, “how long before you peak on acid?”, alt.drugs, Usenet

     I reckon the thing that brings on a trip the quickest is definitly a nang (nitrous oxide bulb) while listening to REALLY intense music

   • 1998 October 18, “noise” from hello.net.au and start.net.au, “H ?”, alt.drugs.hard, Usenet

     "helicopters" these days refers to those silly hats with propellers on top, which come with a free ounce of smack at any local K-mart. Y'know, next to the nangs (or bulbs - nitrous oxide for whipped cream).

Etymology 2

Multicultural London English, from Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole nyanga, potentially from West African languages, such as Mende nyanga (“ostentation; showing off”) or Hausa yanga (“boastfulness”).

Adjective

nang (comparative more nang, superlative most nang)

1. (Britain, slang, chiefly MLE) excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.

Synonyms

• fabulous, splendid; See also Thesaurus:excellent

Anagrams

• Gann, Ngan

Bau Bidayuh

Noun

nang

1. shrimp (decapod crustacean)

Chuukese

Noun

nang

1. heaven

Jingpho

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-? (“thou”).

Pronoun

nang

1. thou, you (singular)

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *na?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na? (“thou”). Cognates include Lashi nang and Burmese ??? (nang).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nã?/

Pronoun

nang

1. thou, you (singular)

See also

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 425
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[2], Payap University, page 44

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-? (“thou”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/, [na???]

Pronoun

nang

1. thou, you (singular)

References

• Mark Wannemacher (2011) A phonological overview of the Lacid language?^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University., page 38
• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), page 40

Mandarin

Romanization

nang

1. Nonstandard spelling of n?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of náng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of n?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nàng.

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.

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *na?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-? (“thou”).

Pronoun

nang

1. thou, you (singular)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Conjunction

nang

1. when, at the time of (referring to past events)

   Synonym: noong

2. for, so that, in order to

   Synonyms: para, upang

Particle

nang

1. combination of na and -ng; more; already

2. used to connect adverbs of manner or degree to the word they modify

3. used to connect repeated verbs

Usage notes

• Nang is often confused with ng. According to the Manwal sa Masinop na Pagsulat (Manual to Careful Writing) by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (Commission on the Filipino Language), nang is used only in the five definitions stated above and ng is used elsewhere. Nang is also confused with na'ng, the contraction of na and ang, wherein the apostrophe is often omitted.

See also

• na
• ng
• na'ng

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

nang

1. follicle

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cây) nang

1. (archaic) areca

   Synonym: cau

Yapese

Verb

nang

1. to know

English

Etymology 1

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of maid: a servant girl. [1599]
2. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual. [1670]
3. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of nursemaid. [1940]
4. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of grandmother. [1955]

   We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Etymology 2

See at naan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n?n/

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. Alternative spelling of naan

Anagrams

• ANN, Ann, Ann., ann, ann.

Acehnese

Noun

nan

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?nus, from Ancient Greek ????? (nânos).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?nan/

Adjective

nan (feminine nana, masculine plural nans, feminine plural nanes)

1. (attributive) dwarf

Derived terms

• planeta nan

Noun

nan m (plural nans, feminine nana)

1. (mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)
2. dwarf (a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition)
3. (folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head

Derived terms

• nanisme

Further reading

• “nan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nan” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “nan” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Pronunciation

• (Savoyard dialect) IPA^(key): /?n?/
• (Bressan dialect) IPA^(key): /?n??/

Interjection

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

Adverb

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

French

Adverb

nan

1. (informal) nah, nope

Synonyms

• non (standard French)

Haitian Creole

Article

nan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• yo
• yon

Preposition

nan

1. in

Japanese

Romanization

nan

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nan/

Noun

nan m (diminutive nancycko)

1. father

Declension

Coordinate terms

• ma? (“mother”)
• syn (“son”)
• ?owka (“daughter”)

Further reading

• nan in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• nan in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Makolkol

Noun

nan

1. mother

Further reading

• Joshua Arlo, Indigenous language almost extinct, 2 September 2016, LoopPNG

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nya·?anwi.

Numeral

nan

1. five

Mandarin

Romanization

nan (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nàn.

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.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n), See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Noun

nan m

1. bread
2. food

   Synonym: xwarin

Etymology 2

Verb

nan

1. to put in, to set, to place
2. to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with

Old English

Etymology

From ne (“not”) +? ?n (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Determiner

n?n

1. no; not a, not one, not any
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

Pronoun

n?n

1. no one, nobody; none
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: noon
  • English: none
  • Scots: nane

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?n/

Determiner

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

Pronoun

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Papiamentu

Etymology

The third person plural pronoun nan (“they”) and the overall plural noun suffix -nan are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun nan and it's derived suffix -nan were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).

Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix -na and the Dutch suffix -en.

Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.

Pronoun

nan

1. they, third person plural
2. their

See also

• -nan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Conjunction

nan

1. if (subjunctive)

   Nan robh mi beartach, b'urrainn dhomh cheannaich taigh-mòr. - If I were rich, I could buy a mansion.

2. whether (subjunctive)

   Biodh gràdh agam air fhathast nan robh e beartach neo bochd. - I would still love him whether he were rich or poor.

Usage notes

• Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
• Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise ma is used.
• The negative form is mura.

Etymology 2

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? an (“their”).

Preposition

nan (+ dative, triggers eclipsis)

1. in their

Inflection

Etymology 3

Article

nan

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural preceding a consonant (excluding b-, f-, m-, p-)
   2. genitive plural preceding a vowel

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Noun

nan m

1. father

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-a??, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into Proto-Vietic *ta?? (whence ?an (“to weave”)). Further from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t?aa?.

Formationally indentical but independently developed is Proto-West-Bahnaric *trna?? ("thread"), whence Nyaheun nna?? ("thread").

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nan

1. bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)

Wolof

Adverb

nan

1. (interrogative) how

See also

• naka

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n?n]
• Hyphenation: nan

Etymology

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n, “bread”), see there for more.

Alternative forms

• non
• nun

Noun

nan m

1. bread