farang

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Thai ฝรั่ง (fà-ràng, “Westerner”). Doublet of Frank, frank, franc, and firangi.

Noun

farang (plural farangs)

1. (Thailand) A foreigner in Thailand who is of Western ancestry; one who comes to Thailand from a Western country.
   • 2017 March 30, "Farang jumps to his death at Suvarnabhumi Airport", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited:

     Farang jumps to his death at Suvarnabhumi Airport: A foreign man is believed to have committed suicide when he fell from the fourth floor of Suvarnabhumi Airport this morning.

   • 2017 April 20, "Crazy farang tied up by Pattaya locals and police after he jumped from roof to roof", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited:

     Crazy farang tied up by Pattaya locals and police after he jumped from roof to roof: A foreign man was tied up by locals and police Wednesday morning... At midnight, locals alerted the police after the farang went on a rampage and destroyed other people's property... Witnesses said they had not seen the man before. The farang continued to let out curses as he was moved onto the police's truck...

   • 2017 May 9, "Farang couple has sex on Samui beach for audience of stray dogs", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited:

     Farang couple has sex on Samui beach for audience of stray dogs: A local on Koh Samui shared a video of a couple he called "farang scums" having sex on the beach for an audience of confused stray dogs.

Translations

(Thailand) foreigner of Western ancestry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 法朗 (fǎlǎng), ^{(please verify)} 法朗人 (fǎlǎngrén)

• Hindi: फ़िरंगी m (firaṅgī), फिरंगी (hi) m (phiraṅgī), फिरंग (hi) m (phiraṅg)
• Japanese: ファラン (faran)
• Khmer: បារាំង (km) (baaraŋ)
• Lao: ຝຣັ່ງ (fa rang), ຝະລັ່ງ (lo) (fa lang)
• Persian: فرنگی (fa) (farangi)
• Portuguese: gringo (pt) m
• Russian: фара́нг m or f (faráng)
• Tajik: фарангӣ (farangi), фаранги (farang-i)
• Thai: ฝรั่ง (th) (fà-ràng)
• Urdu: فرنگی m (firangī)

See also

• ferenghi

Anagrams

• franga

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɑːɾɑŋ]

Noun

farang

1. an epidemic

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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First attested in 1758 by Søren Fermann in Tinn dialect. Later also attested by Søren Richart Hagerup (probably Surnadal dialect, ca. 1770) and Jacob Nicolai Wilse (Spydeberg dialect, 1780), but Wilse gives definition "a sudden sickness".

Noun

farang m (definite singular farangen, indefinite plural farangar, definite plural farangane)

1. an epidemy

   Synonyms: epidemi, sott

   • 1969, Det norske bibelselkap, Bibelen:

     Farangar skal han lata hanga atti deg, til han hev rudt deg ut or landet som du kjem inn og skal leggja under deg

     Epidemys will he let hang after you, untill he gets cleansed you from the land you're coming to and will occupy (The fifth book of Moses, 28:21)

2. (colloquial) clipping of magefarang (“norovirus”)

   Synonyms: norovirus, omgangssjuke

Further reading

• “farang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “farang” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Oddvar Nes (1994). Ei ordsamling frå Tinn, published in Helsing til Lars Vassenden.
• Jan Ragnar Hagland (1986), Trønderord frå 1700-talet : Ordsamling frå Surnadal, page 30
• Jacob Nicolai Wilse (1780), Norſk Ordbog eller Samling af norſke Ord, i ſær de ſom bruges i Egnen af Spydeberg
• Jon Peder Vestad (2002), Gausdalsmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 41
• Martin Foss (2004), På me'dalsmål : ord, uttrykk og vendingar på me'dalsmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 17
• Hildegunn Aamo (2004), Ord og uttrykk fra Os (in Norwegian), page 30