wang

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See also: Wang, wāng, wáng, Wáng, wǎng, and wàng

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Noun

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wang (plural wangs)

  1. Alternative spelling of whang

Verb

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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.
    • 1993, Tom McNally, “Panfish on Flies and Bugs”, in The Complete Book of Fly Fishing[1], 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283:
      Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.
    • 1998, Barry Hines, “The Football Match”, in James Riordan, editor, Football Stories[2], Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, "wanged"%7C"wanging" page 36:
      He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.
    • 2009, Mark Millhone, “Saltville”, in The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir[3], Rodale, →ISBN, "wanged"%7C"wanging"+-"wanging'ombe" page 132:
      After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.
Translations
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Etymology 2

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Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (gadget, doodad), or from whang (stour, thick slice", also "thong), from thwang (thong). See thong. Compare wong.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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wang (plural wangs)

  1. (colloquial) Penis.
    • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five[4], New York: Dial, published 2005, pages 168–169:
      Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.
Synonyms
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Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch wang.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wang (plural wange)

  1. cheek

Dutch

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Zoenen op beide wangen. — Kisses on both cheeks.

Etymology

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From Middle Dutch wange, from Old Dutch *wanga, from Proto-West Germanic *wangā, from Proto-Germanic *wangô (cheek), from Proto-Indo-European *wenǵ- (neck, cheek).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wang f (plural wangen, diminutive wangetje n)

  1. cheek

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: wang

Fwâi

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Noun

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wang

  1. boat

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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From Malay wang (money).

Noun

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wang

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

Etymology 2

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From either Teochew (uang5, king) or Mandarin (wáng, king).

Noun

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wang

  1. palace, king's residence.

Further reading

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Jawe

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Noun

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wang

  1. boat

Lashi

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Pronunciation

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Postposition

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wang

  1. into

Verb

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wang

  1. to enter

References

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

Malay

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Etymology

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Possibly from Hokkien (oân, round; currency).

Noun

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

  1. money
  2. cash

Descendants

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Further reading

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Manchu

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Romanization

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wang

  1. Romanization of ᠸᠠᠩ

Mandarin

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Romanization

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wang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of wāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of wáng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of wǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of wàng.

Usage notes

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  • 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.

Musi

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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wang

  1. people; person
  2. human being

Synonyms

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Nemi

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Noun

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wang

  1. boat

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *wangaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wang m (nominative plural wangas)

  1. (poetic) plain, field, ground
    • 1963, Paull Franklin Baum, Riddle 11, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book
      sæs me sind ealle flodas on fæðmum / ⁊ þas foldan bearm grene wongas
      All seas and waters are in my embraces, and the bosom of earth and the green fields.

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Pije

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Noun

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wang

  1. boat

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian *wange, from Proto-Germanic *wangô.

Noun

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wang n (plural wangen, diminutive wankje)

  1. cheek

Woiwurrung

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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wang

  1. cheek

References

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  • 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