different between wang vs vang

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English wange, from Old English wange (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenk-, *wek- (“to be bent or bowed”). Cognate with Scots wan, wang (“cheek”), West Frisian wang (“cheek”), Dutch wang (“cheek”), German Wange (“cheek”), Icelandic vanga (“cheek”), Gothic *???????????????????? (*wagg?) in ???????????????????????????????????? (waggareis, “pillow, cushion”), Italian guancia (“cheek”).

Noun

wang (plural wangs)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The cheek; the jaw.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Our manciple I hope he will be dead,

     So workes aye the wanges in his head:

     And therefore is I come, and eke Alein,

     To grind our corn and carry it home again:

     I pray you speed us hence as well ye may.

Derived terms

• wangtooth

Related terms

• wanger

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

• whang

Noun

wang (plural wangs)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound made when a hollow metal object is struck a glancing blow.
2. A slap; a blow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Verb

wang (third-person singular simple present wangs, present participle wanging, simple past and past participle wanged)

1. (transitive) To batter; to clobber; to conk.
2. (transitive) To throw hard.

Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang (“stour, thick slice", also "thong”), from thwang (“thong”). See thong.

Alternative forms

• whang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ?/, /w??/

Noun

wang (plural wangs)

1. (colloquial) penis.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 5, pp. 168-169,^[4]

     Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:penis

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, g'wan, gawn, gnaw, gwan

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wang.

Noun

wang (plural wange)

1. cheek

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch wange, from Old Dutch *wanga, from Proto-Germanic *wangô (“cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen?- (“neck, cheek”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

wang f (plural wangen, diminutive wangetje n)

1. cheek

Derived terms

• wangzak

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wang

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Malay wang (“money”).

Noun

wang

1. (informal) Informal spelling of uang (“money”).

Etymology 2

From Min Nan ? (uang⁵, “king”).

Noun

wang

1. palace, king's residence.

Further reading

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

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wa?]

Postposition

wang

1. into

Verb

wang

1. to enter

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

Noun

wang (Jawi spelling ????, informal 1st possessive wangku, impolite 2nd possessive wangmu, 3rd possessive wangnya)

1. money
2. cash

Descendants

• Indonesian: uang
• Min Nan: ?

Further reading

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

Manchu

Romanization

wang

1. Romanization of ???

Mandarin

Romanization

wang

1. Nonstandard spelling of w?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wáng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of w?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wàng.

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.

Old English

Alternative forms

• wong

Etymology

Cognate with Old Saxon wang, Old High German -wang (in holzwang), Old Norse vangr (Swedish vång), Gothic ???????????????????? (waggs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n?/, [w???]

Noun

wang m (nominative plural wangas)

1. (poetic) plain, field, ground
   • 1963, Paull Franklin Baum, Riddle 11, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book

Declension

Derived terms

• neorxnawang

Descendants

• English: wong

West Frisian

Noun

wang n (plural wangen, diminutive wankje)

1. cheek

Woiwurrung

Alternative forms

• wangga

Noun

wang

1. cheek

References

• Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124

English

Alternative forms

• fank, fang

Etymology 1

From Middle English vangen, southern variant of fangen (“to seize, catch”), from Old English f?n (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhan?, *fang?n? (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph??- (“to fasten, place”). Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen (“to catch”), Danish fange (“to catch”). More at fang.

Verb

vang (third-person singular simple present vangs, present participle vanging, simple past and past participle vanged)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) To take; undertake for.
2. (dialectal, as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch vangen (“to catch”). Ultimately a doublet of etymology one.

Noun

vang (plural vangs)

1. (nautical) A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position

Hyponyms

• boom vang

Translations

Anagrams

• AVGN

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uang-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen(H)g- (“to be bent, curved”). Cognate to Lithuanian vìngis (“bow, crooking”) and Old High German wankon (“to shake, totter, stagger”).

Noun

vang m

1. (b)rim, felloe

Related terms

• vëth

Derived terms

• vëngëroj
• vëngër

Danish

Noun

vang

1. a meadow; an uncultivated, grassy piece of land

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From vangen.

Noun

vang f (plural vangen)

1. The brake wheel of a windmill, a brake.

Alternative forms

• vange (archaic)

Derived terms

• bandvang
• blokvang
• stutvang
• vangstok
• vangstuk
• vangtouw
• Vlaamse vang

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vang

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

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vã?/

Noun

vang

1. village

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 44

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

vang

1. scarce
2. rare

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• vàng

Noun

vang

1. cause
2. reason

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse vangr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

vang m (definite singular vangen, indefinite plural vangar, definite plural vangane)

1. a meadow, grassy area, grassy plain
   • 1868, Henrik Krohn, "Han Trond i Fjelli":

     […] fraa Hesten, som kneggjad til honom paa Vangen.

     […] from the horse, that neighed to him on the meadow.

References

• “vang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Verb

vang • (?)

1. to echo; to resound

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French vin.

Noun

vang

1. (colloquial) Short for r??u vang (“wine”).

Etymology 3

Noun

(classifier cây) vang • (????)

1. sappanwood (Biancaea sappan)