tang

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See also: Tang, tāng, táng, tàng, tǎng, tăng, tång, tâng, tảng, tạng, tặng, and tầng

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tæŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English tang (“serpent's tongue", "extension of blade”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Old Dutch tanger (“sharp", "tart", "pinching”)

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Noun[edit]

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (obsolete) 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?
  2. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
    • 1904, O. Henry, "The Missing Chord"
      The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.
  3. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
    Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  4. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
    • Fuller
      Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
    • Jeffrey
      a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics
    • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "At Sunset Time"
      What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?
  5. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
  6. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
  7. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
  8. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
  9. Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
  10. A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
Synonyms[edit]
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terms derived from tang (noun)
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Translations[edit]
tongue — see tongue
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Etymology 2[edit]

imitative

Noun[edit]

tang (plural tangs)

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

Verb[edit]

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.[1][2]
  2. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
    Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. — Shakespeare.

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

tang (plural tangs)

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

Translations[edit]

Ascophyllum nodosum — see knotted wrack

Etymology 4[edit]

From poontang by shortening

Noun[edit]

tang (plural tangs)

  1. (vulgar slang) The vagina
    • 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 9,
      The guys like to look at her tang, because that's how they are […]
  2. (vulgar slang) intercourse with a woman

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eva Crane, The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting, Taylor & Francis (1999), →ISBN, page 239.
  2. ^ Hilda M. Ransome, The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Courier Dover Publications (2004), →ISBN, page 225.

Anagrams[edit]

Blagar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. sea

References[edit]

Danish[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse tǫng.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun[edit]

tang c (singular definite tangen, plural indefinite tænger)

  1. tongs
  2. forceps
Inflection[edit]
Declension of tang
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tang tangen tænger tængerne
genitive tangs tangens tængers tængernes

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse þang.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tanɡ/, [tˢɑŋˀ]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. seaweed

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tang f (plural tangen, diminutive tangetje n)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

tang (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. groat

Declension[edit]

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Kriol[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English tongue.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. tongue

Kurdish[edit]

Noun[edit]

tang ?

  1. side

Kusunda[edit]

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. water

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

tang

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

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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.

Mauritian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malagasy tandraka

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. tenrec

References[edit]

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

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse tǫng

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse þang, compare with German Tang

Noun[edit]

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

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse þang

Noun[edit]

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

  1. kelp, seaweed (order Fucales)

References[edit]

Seychellois Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malagasy tandraka

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. tenrec

References[edit]

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

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English tongue.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. tongue

Etymology 2[edit]

From English tank.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. tank

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English tongue.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. (anatomy) tongue

Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 喪.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. (formal) funeral

Etymology 2[edit]

From English tangent.

Noun[edit]

tang

  1. (trigonometry) tangent

See also[edit]

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