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4-letter words (3 found)

GANT,GNAT,TANG,

3-letter words (7 found)

ANT,GAN,GAT,NAG,NAT,TAG,TAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AN,AT,NA,TA,

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Definitions and meaning of tang

tang

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tăng; IPA(key): /tæŋ/
  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Does this need another split between taste and metal bit? Also eye-dialect for tongue???

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
    Synonyms: bite, piquancy, spiciness, twang, zing
    Antonyms: blandness, dullness
  2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    Synonym: twang
  3. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
  4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
    Coordinate term: tab
    1. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
      1. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
    2. (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  5. (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
    Coordinate term: biscuit
  6. Obsolete form of tongue.
    • 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
      Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
  7. (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

Verb

tang (third-person singular simple present tangs, present participle tanging, simple past and past participle tanged)

  1. (dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
  2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.

Etymology 3

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang (“seaweed”), Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

Noun

tang (countable and uncountable, plural tangs)

  1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of poontang.

Noun

tang (countable and uncountable, plural tangs)

  1. (countable, vulgar slang) The vagina or vulva.
  2. (uncountable, vulgar slang) Sexual intercourse with a woman

Etymology 5

Unknown

Noun

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
    Synonym: surgeonfish
Derived terms

Further reading

  • Acanthuridae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “tang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tang”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

References

See also

  • tangbao
  • tang hoon

Anagrams

  • Gant, Gnat, gnat

Australian Kriol

Etymology

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. tongue

Bislama

Etymology

From English tongue. Cognate with Tok Pisin tang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaŋ/
  • Hyphenation: tang

Noun

tang

  1. tongue

References

  • Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 12

Blagar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taŋ/

Noun

tang

  1. sea

References

  • A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
  • The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List

Cimbrian

Noun

tang

  1. plural of tage

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tǫng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun

tang c (singular definite tangen, plural indefinite tænger)

  1. tongs
  2. forceps
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þang. Cf. Swedish tång, Norwegian Bokmål tang, Norwegian Nynorsk tang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun

tang c (singular definite tangen, not used in plural form)

  1. seaweed

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tanghe, from Old Dutch tanga, from Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑŋ

Noun

tang f (plural tangen, diminutive tangetje n)

  1. pliers
  2. tongs
  3. (especially the diminutive) pincers, tweezers
  4. (figuratively) shrew, bitch

Derived terms

  • kniptang
  • krultang
  • nijptang
  • pijptang
  • waterpomptang

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: tang
  • → Indonesian: tang

Estonian

Etymology

  • From Proto-Norse *ᛊᛏᚨᚾᚷᚢ (*stangu, “bar, rod, stake”) (compare Old Norse stǫng, German Stange), with the meaning change rod > something prickly > prickly ear (of wheat etc) > grain.
  • From Finno-Mordovian, in that case cognate to Finnish tankea (“stiff”), Livonian da’nktõ, da’nkti (“strong, healthy”). Original meaning presumably was "something hard, stiff".

Noun

tang (genitive tangu, partitive tangu)

  1. groat (hulled grain)

Declension

Further reading

  • “tang”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “tang”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Hokkien

Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taəŋ/
  • Hyphenation: tang

Conjunction

tang

  1. but

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtaŋ]
  • Hyphenation: tang
  • Homophone: tank

Etymology 1

From Dutch tang, from Middle Dutch tanghe, from Old Dutch tanga, from Proto-Germanic *tangō.

Noun

tang (plural tang-tang)

  1. pliers

Verb

tang

  1. to use the pliers

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tang (plural tang-tang)

  1. the sound of hit can, a metallic sound

Etymology 3

Noun

tang (plural tang-tang)

  1. Nonstandard form of tank.

Etymology 4

Noun

tang

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of tentang.

Further reading

  • “tang” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kusunda

Noun

tang

  1. water

Mandarin

Romanization

tang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of táng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tàng.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Malagasy tandraka.

Noun

tang

  1. tenrec

References

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Noun

tang

  1. Alternative form of tonge (“tongs”)

Northern Kurdish

Noun

tang ?

  1. side

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tǫng.

Noun

tang f or m (definite singular tanga or tangen, indefinite plural tenger, definite plural tengene)

  1. (a pair of) pliers, pincers
  2. (a pair of) forceps
Derived terms
  • knipetang

See also

  • tong (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þang, compare Swedish tång, Danish tang, Norwegian Nynorsk tang.

Noun

tang m or n (definite singular tangen or tanget, uncountable)

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

References

  • “tang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þang n, compare Swedish tång, Danish tang, Norwegian Bokmål tang.

Noun

tang m (definite singular tangen, uncountable)

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

Usage notes

  • Prior to a 2019 revision, it was also considered grammatically neuter. With this change, definite singular tanget was made non-standard.

References

  • “tang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • tange

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tangu, from Proto-Germanic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑnɡ/, [tɑŋɡ]

Noun

tang f

  1. tongs

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tang”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Phalura

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu تَنگ, from Classical Persian تَنگ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taŋɡ/, /taŋ/

Adjective

tang (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling تنگ)

  1. narrow
    Synonym: aawíiṛu
    Antonym: bistíiṇu
  2. troubled

References

  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “tang”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From Malagasy tandraka.

Noun

tang

  1. tenrec

References

  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. tongue

Etymology 2

From English tank.

Noun

tang

  1. tank

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English tongue.

Noun

tang

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [taːŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [taːŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [taːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 喪.

Noun

tang

  1. a series of events that encompasses a funeral, a burial or cremation, and a period of mourning spanning up to 3 years after the lunar date of death
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English tangent.

Noun

tang

  1. (trigonometry) tangent

See also

  • tan
  • côtang
  • tiếp tuyến

Etymology 3

Noun

tang

  1. (music) shell (body of a drum)

Etymology 4

Noun

tang

  1. (fossil word) evidence of wrongdoing
Usage notes

This sense only occurs in some compound words.

Derived terms

Etymology 5

Noun

tang

  1. (informal) something or someone insignificant

Etymology 6

Sino-Vietnamese word from 桑

Noun

tang

  1. (fossil word) mulberry
  2. (fossil word) silkworm
Usage notes

This sense only occurs in some compound words.

Derived terms

See also

  • Ca-tang
  • tang tảng

References

  • "tang" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Etymology 7

Sino-Vietnamese word from 鐺

Noun

tang

  1. Buddhist copper instrument
Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org