different between smite vs bang

English

Alternative forms

• smight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English smiten, from Old English sm?tan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sm?t, IPA^(key): /sma?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit)

1. (archaic) To hit, to strike.
   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
2. To strike down or kill with godly force.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:

     And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
3. To injure with divine power.
4. To kill violently; to slay.
5. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
6. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
   • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death

     Let us not mistake the goodness of God, nor imagine that because he smites us, therefore we are forsaken by him.
7. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

Noun

smite (plural smites)

1. (archaic, rare) A heavy blow or stroke with a weapon, tool or the hand.

Translations

Anagrams

• METIs, MSTie, Metis, Métis, STEMI, Times, e-stim, emits, i-stem, items, metis, mites, métis, setim, stime, times

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sm?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smit?/

Verb

smite

1. to throw
2. to fling

Inflection

Further reading

• “smite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Homophone: bhang

Etymology 1

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian, bangan or Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga (“to hammer”), 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.

Alternative forms

• bangue (obsolete)

Noun

bang (plural bangs)

1. A sudden percussive noise.

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.
   • 1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country

     his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
5. (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

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.

10. (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). [from 20th c.]
    • 1952, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

      As for myself, I take a bang now and then—I know plenty of croakers—but I really couldn't keep up a habit without a lot of running around and bother.

11. (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
12. (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)

13. (slang) A thrill.
    • 1993, Douglas Woolf, Sandra Braman, Hypocritic Days & Other Tales (page 40)

      "We all know you give great parties, Mr. Lippincott."
      "It gives me a bang, even a bigger bang than this," Mr. Lippincott said, indicating his drink and then finishing it.

    • 2000, James Hadley Chase, Make the Corpse Walk (page 31)

      Yes, he got a bang out of cheating Rollo.

Synonyms

• strike, blow
• explosion
• (the symbol !): exclamation point, exclamation mark

Antonyms

• (abrupt left turn): hang

Translations

Verb

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.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To hit hard.
3. (slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms: nail, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

5. (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
   • c. 1883, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Becomin a Zuni

     His hair banged even with his eyebrows.

6. (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.

   Do you smoke meth? No, I bang it.

Conjugation

Translations

Adverb

bang (comparative more bang, superlative most bang)

1. Right, directly.

   The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
2. Precisely.

   He arrived bang on time.

3. With a sudden impact.

   Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.

Interjection

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!"

Translations

Derived terms

• (verb): banger, gangbang
• (noun): bang for the buck, big bang, go out with a bang
• (adverb): bang on, bang out of order, bang to rights, bang up / bang-up
• (adjective): bang-bang

Etymology 2

Noun

bang (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bhang (“cannabis”)

See also

• PC bang

Anagrams

• BGAN

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Adjective

bang (attributive bange, comparative banger, superlative bangste)

1. afraid

Bislama

Etymology

From English bank.

Noun

bang

1. A bank

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang

1. the sound of an explosion or a gun

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bang.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banghe, from be- + anghe, the latter is an adverbial form of enge (“narrow, confined”), compare angst (“fear”).

Adjective

bang (comparative banger, superlative bangst)

1. scared, frightened
2. fearful
3. anxious

Usage notes

The adjective is accompanied with zijn (to be); for example: Ik ben bang "I am afraid". Usage with hebben (to have) also occurs - for example: Ik heb bang - but is generally proscribed as a contamination with ik heb angst.

Inflection

Synonyms

• bevreesd, angstig, schrikachtig, vruchtig, verschrikt

Derived terms

• bangbroek
• bangelijk
• bangerik
• bangmakerij
• doodsbang

Related terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bang

See also

• schrikken

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

bang m (plural bangen, diminutive bangetje n)

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Interjection

bang

1. bang

Noun

bang m (plural bangs)

1. sonic boom
2. bong (marijuana pipe)

German

Alternative forms

• bange (both are roughly equally common)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Adjective

bang (comparative banger or bänger, superlative am bangsten or am bängsten)

1. scared, frightened, afraid, fearful

   Synonym: ängstlich

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau?k/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -au?k
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

bang n (genitive singular bangs, no plural)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Declension

Related terms

• banga

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bang
• Homophone: bank

Etymology 1

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang

1. Title or term of address for brother

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

bang

1. A sudden percussive noise.

Etymology 3

From Malay bang, from Persian ????? (bâng, “voice, sound, noise, cry”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (??ng /v?ng/).

Noun

bang (first-person possessive bangku, second-person possessive bangmu, third-person possessive bangnya)

1. (obsolete) adhan

   Synonym: azan

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bang m (genitive singular banga, nominative plural banganna)

1. (swimming) stroke, single effort

   Synonyms: béim, buille, oscar

2. effort, (vigorous) movement

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bang f (genitive singular bainge, nominative plural banga)

1. ban, interdict, taboo
2. restraint

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bang m (genitive singular baing, nominative plural baing)

1. Alternative form of banc (“bank”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Entries containing “bang” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

References

• "bang" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “stroke” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Javanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

bang

1. red

Etymology 2

Noun

bang

1. region

Etymology 3

Noun

bang

1. bank

Etymology 4

Noun

bang

1. flower

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwa? (“to shine”). Cognates include S'gaw Karen ?? (baw, “yellow”) and Burmese ???? (wang:, “bright”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Adjective

bang

1. bright

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[4], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -ba?, -a?

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ???, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, impolite 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)

1. adhan

   Synonym: azan

Etymology 2

Clipping of abang (“brother”).

Noun

bang (Jawi spelling ???, plural bang-bang, informal 1st possessive bangku, impolite 2nd possessive bangmu, 3rd possessive bangnya)

1. brother (older male sibling)

   Synonyms: abang (bung), kakak, engko, nana, uda

Further reading

• “bang” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

bang

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bàng.

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.

Maranao

Noun

bang

1. (Islam) adhan, call to prayer

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

bang ?

1. a shout.

Old Norse

Etymology

Onomatopoeic or unknown origin.

Noun

bang n (genitive bangs, plural b?ng)

1. pounding, hammering, banging

Related terms

• banga

References

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

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bang, Dutch bang.

Adjective

bang

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

Swedish

Adjective

bang

1. scared, anxious

Noun

bang ?

1. A sudden percussive noise

Declension

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

(classifier cái) bang

1. (Vietnam) state (a political division of a federation)

Synonyms

• (state): ti?u bang (chiefly overseas Vietnamese)

Derived terms

Related terms

• liên bang
• t?nh bang

Etymology 2

Verb

bang

1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to crash into; to collide with; to hit

   Synonyms: bá, tông

Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

bang

1. (historical) community of overseas Chinese in French Indochina who emigrated from the same province of China

2. Short for bang tá (“assistant district chief”).
3. Short for bang bi?n (“assistant district chief”).

Derived terms

See also

• h?i quán

References

• "bang" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??/

Noun

bang

1. wall

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41