different between pang vs prang

English

Etymology 1

The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, pr?nge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?ng, IPA^(key): /pæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

pang (plural pangs)

1. (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
2. (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.

Derived terms

• birth pangs
• hunger pangs
• pang of conscience

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.

Translations

References

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Verb

pang

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of ping

Estonian

Noun

pang (genitive pange, partitive pange)

1. bucket

   Synonym: ämber

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• pang in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p???]
• Rhymes: -???

Verb

pang

1. (intransitive, chiefly in the third person) to stagnate, to be in stasis (e.g. of business or bodily circulation)

   Synonyms: stagnál, megreked, tesped

Conjugation

The infinitive is more common in the form pangani.

Derived terms

• pangás
• pangó

Further reading

• pang 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

Javanese

Noun

pang

1. branch

Ludian

Noun

pang

1. handle

Mandarin

Romanization

pang

1. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of páng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of p?ng.
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.

Min Nan

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

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.

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pa?/

Prefix

pang

1. Adjective prefix (an action or a practice associated with the thing or action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?babae (“woman”) ? ?pang-babae (“for women only”)

2. instrumentative case of the noun (a tool or an instrument that is used to perform the action expressed by the root)

   ?pang + ?takip (“a cover”) ? ?pangtakip (“an instrument used to cover something”)

Veps

Noun

pang

1. handle

English

Etymology 1

Originally WWII RAF slang; origin unknown.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prang (countable and uncountable, plural prangs)

1. (slang, dated) An aeroplane crash.
   • 2011, Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page,

     I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia.

2. (dated, military slang) A bombing raid.
3. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand, Britain, informal) An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
   • 1984, Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel, page 105,

     The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.

   • 1999, Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam, page 209,

     If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs.

   • 2009, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, page 90,

     The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang.

4. (US, slang, uncountable) Crack cocaine.

Synonyms

• (minor accident involving a motor vehicle): bingle (Australia), collision, crash, fender-bender (US)

Verb

prang (third-person singular simple present prangs, present participle pranging, simple past and past participle pranged)

1. (slang, dated) To crash an aeroplane.
   • 1946, Frank Clune, Song of India, page 332,

     “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”

2. (intransitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand, Britain, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
   • 1958, Nation, Issues 1-33, page 56,

     “Didn?t bump nobody,” I sneer.

     “That?s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn?t say you will prang. It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”

3. (transitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand, Britain, informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
   • 2004, John Pym (editor), Time Out Film Guide, page 70,

     Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.

   • 2005, Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand, page 93,

     On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.

Derived terms

• pranged

Etymology 2

From Khmer.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prang (plural prangs)

1. (architecture) A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
   • 1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216,

     The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.

   • 2001, Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok, page 119,

     The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.

Anagrams

• pgRNA, pgrna

German

Pronunciation

Verb

prang

1. imperative singular of prangen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of prangen

Malay

Alternative forms

• perang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ra?/, /pra?/
• Rhymes: -?ra?, -ra?, -a?

Noun

prang

1. Misspelling of perang.