fang

See also: FANG, Fang, fáng, fàng, fāng, Fāng, and fǎng

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: făng, IPA^(key): /fæŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fængtōþ, fengtōþ (“canine tooth”, literally “snag-tooth, catch-tooth”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand.

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

1. a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
2. (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom

Derived terms

• fanged
• fangless
• unfang

Translations

canine tooth

• Arabic: نَاب (ar) m (nāb)

  Egyptian Arabic: ناب m (nāb)

• Armenian: ժանիք (hy) (žanikʻ)
• Belarusian: іко́л m (ikól), клык m (klyk)
• Burmese: စွယ် (my) (cwai)
• Catalan: ullal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尖牙 (zh) (jiānyá)

• Classical Nahuatl: cōātlantli
• Czech: tesák m
• Danish: hugtand c
• Drung: dvgong
• Dutch: hoektand (nl) m, vangtand m
• Eastern Cham: ꨰꨴꨈꩃ (graing), ꨨꨰꨴꨈꩃ (hagraing)
• Esperanto: dentego
• Finnish: kulmahammas (fi), torahammas
• French: croc (fr) m
• Galician: canteiro (gl) m, cairo (gl) m
• Georgian: ეშვი (ešvi)
• German: Fangzahn (de) m, Reißzahn (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: נִיב (he) m (niv)
• Italian: dente (it) m, dente canino, zanna (it) f
• Japanese: 牙 (ja) (きば, kiba)
• Kazakh: азу (azu)
• Korean: 송곳니 (ko) (songgonni)
• Latvian: ilknis m
• Malay: gigi taring, siung
• Polish: kieł (pl) m
• Portuguese: presa (pt) f, canino (pt) m
• Russian: клык (ru) m (klyk)
• Slovak: tesák m
• Spanish: colmillo (es) m
• Swahili: chonge
• Swedish: huggtand c, gadd (sv) c
• Tagalog: panigbi
• Thai: เขี้ยว (th) (kîao)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: і́кло n (íklo)
• Vietnamese: răng nanh, nanh (vi)
• West Frisian: slachtosk

a tooth that can inject venom

• Catalan: ullal (ca) m
• Dutch: giftand (nl) m
• French: crochet (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Giftzahn (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 毒牙 (ja) (どくが, dokuga)
• Swedish: gifttand c
• Thai: เขี้ยว (th) (kîao)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (rare) To strike or attack with the fangs.
2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
   • (Can we date this quote by Philips and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     chariots fanged with scythes

Etymology 2

From Middle English fangen, from Old English fōn (“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 *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen (“to catch”), Danish fange (“to catch”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (transitive, dialectal or archaic) To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
   • 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho, Act 1, Scene 2:

     Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.

   • c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 3:

     Destruction fang mankind.

2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To take; receive with assent; accept.
3. (transitive, obsolete, as a guest) To receive with hospitality; welcome.
4. (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed) To receive.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Synonyms

• (seize; grip; clutch): clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp
• (take): land, lay hands on, score; See also Thesaurus:receive or Thesaurus:take
• (receive with hospitality): greet, welcome
• (receive): cop, get; See also Thesaurus:receive
• (adopt into spiritual relation):

Derived terms

• befang
• fanger
• fangle
• infang
• onfang
• underfang

 

Etymology 3

From Middle English fang, feng (“a catching, capture, seizing”), from Old English fang, feng (“grip, embrace, grasp, grasping, capture, prey, booty, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *fangą, *fangiz, *fanhiz (“catch, catching, seizure”), from *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Cognate with Scots fang (“that which is taken, capture, catch, prey, booty”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).

Noun

fang (plural fangs)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
2. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
3. Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
   • (Can we date this quote by Evelyn and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the protuberant fangs of the yucca

4. (mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
5. (rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
6. (nautical) The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
7. (nautical) The valve of a pump box.

Synonyms

• (stolen goods): See Thesaurus:booty

Derived terms

• fanging
• lose the fang

Verb

fang (third-person singular simple present fangs, present participle fanging, simple past and past participle fanged)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.

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Catalan

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, from Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌲𐌰 (fanga, “mud, addle, mire”), from Proto-Germanic *fangō (“wetness, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *penk- (“mud, rot, filth”). Cognate with French fange (“mud, mire”) (from Germanic), German feucht (“moist, damp”), Dutch vocht (“moisture, humidity”), Old English fūht (“moist, damp”), Swedish fukt (“moisture, humidity”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfaŋk]

Noun

fang m (plural fangs)

1. mud

See also

• llot m

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Danish

Verb

fang

1. imperative of fange
   1. Catch.
   2. Capture.

      Fang mig! ― Catch me!

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aŋ

Verb

fang

1. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of fangen.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fang (“catch; embrace, hold”), from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch”), from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną (“to take, to seize; to catch, to capture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fauŋk/
• Rhymes: -auŋk

Noun

fang n (genitive singular fangs, nominative plural föng)

1. embrace, hold, grasp

   Synonym: faðmur

2. (in the plural) provisions

   Synonym: vistir

Declension

declension of fang

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fang	fangið	föng	föngin
accusative	fang	fangið	föng	föngin
dative	fangi	fanginu	föngum	föngunum
genitive	fangs	fangsins	fanga	fanganna

Related terms

• fá (“to get, to receive”)
• fengur (“catch; benefit, gain”)

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Mandarin

Romanization

fang

1. Nonstandard spelling of fāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fáng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of fǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fàng.

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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fang n (definite singular fanget, indefinite plural fang, definite plural fanga or fangene)

1. lap

Verb

fang

1. imperative of fange

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑŋː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse fang

Noun

fang n (definite singular fanget, indefinite plural fang, definite plural fanga)

1. lap

Etymology 2

Verb

fang

1. imperative of fanga

References

• “fang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fangą, *fangiz, *fanhiz (“catch, catching, seizure”), from *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑnɡ/, [fɑŋɡ]

Noun

fang m

1. plunder, booty

Declension

Declension of fang (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fang	fangas
accusative	fang	fangas
genitive	fanges	fanga
dative	fange	fangum

Related terms

• fōn

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fang (compare Welsh gwanc (“voracity”))

Noun

fang f (genitive singular fainge, plural fangan)

1. vulture
2. raven

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fang”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fang”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain

Noun

fang

1. fank, sheep pen