dang

• enPR: dăng, IPA^(key): /dæŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ

minced oath of damn

dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

dang

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

dang (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic) Damn.

• darn, durn

See ding.

dang

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of ding

dang (third-person singular simple present dangs, present participle danging, simple past and past participle danged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dash.

   Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage - Christopher Marlowe

• N.D. Ga., NDGA, gDNA, gdna

A lengthening of danë, Gheg variant of darë. Compare Old High German zanga (“tongs”).

dang f

1. a bite, nip

• darë

dang

1. second-person singular imperative of dangen

dang

1. water

• Manam organized phonology data (2011, SIL)

dang (Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄤ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of dāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dǎng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dàng.

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /d̥aŋ/

dang

1. you

   haaw-gwaa dang qaaguhla-gii? (in songs or storytelling)

   /haːw.ɡ̊waː d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhla.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)

   Have you left?

   kuu-gu dang qaaguhl-gii? (in speech)

   /kʰːu.ɡ̊u d̥aŋ qʰaːɡ̊uhl.ɡ̊i/

   there-(question) you leave-(perfect tense)

   Have you left?

• John Enrico, Northern Haida Songs

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *taang (“to extend, stretch”); cognate with Khmer ត្រដាង (trɑdaang, “to stretch out limbs”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaːŋ˧˧]

dang

1. (of limbs) to stretch out

• dạng (“to stretch out”)