vang

• fank, fang

From Middle English vangen, southern variant of fangen (“to seize, catch”), 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 *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).

Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen (“to catch”), Danish fange (“to catch”). More at fang.

vang (third-person singular simple present vangs, present participle vanging, simple past and past participle vanged)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) To take; undertake for.
2. (dialectal, as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to.

Borrowed from Dutch vangen (“to catch”). Ultimately a doublet of etymology one.

vang (plural vangs)

1. (nautical) A line extended down from the end of a gaff, used to regulate its position
   • 2013, Frank Bethwaite, Fast Handling Technique, page 141:

     Having the vang and the Cunningham in the right spot can be beneficial.

• boom vang

vang (third-person singular simple present vangs, present participle vanging, simple past and past participle vanged)

1. (sailing) To flatten the sail and regulate its position with such a line.
   • 1998 February, Yachting, page 62:

     On a catamaran, the curved track has enough beam to allow the mainsheet to vang the boom throughout its entire arc.

   • 1999 January, Cruising World, volume 25, number 1, page 80:

     The Patented Hoyt Jib Boom adds to offwind speed by vanging the jib and acting as a built in whisker pole.

   • 2018, Henry R. Danielson, Island People: Finding Our Way:

     We needed to vang the main, pull it down to flatten it, and make it more efficient.

• AVGN

From Proto-Albanian *uang-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen(H)g- (“to be bent, curved”). Cognate to Lithuanian vi̇̀ngis (“bow, crooking”) and Old High German wankon (“to shake, totter, stagger”). See Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“meadow, pasture”) for more cognates.

vang m

1. (b)rim, felloe

• vëngëroj
• vëngër

• vëth

From Old Norse vangr.

vang c (singular definite vangen, plural indefinite vange)

1. (dated, poetic or solemn) a meadow; an uncultivated, grassy piece of land

   Coordinate term: vænge

• “vang” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /vɑŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vang
• Rhymes: -ɑŋ

From vangen.

vang f (plural vangen)

1. the brake wheel of a windmill, a brake

• vange (archaic)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vang

1. inflection of vangen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from Middle Low German vangen or Swedish fånge.^[1]

vang (genitive vangi, partitive vangi)

1. prisoner
2. captive

• “vang”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “vang”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “vang”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• vang in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /vã˧/

vang

1. village

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 44

• IPA^(key): /vɑːŋ/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vang

1. scarce
2. rare

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• vàng

vang

1. cause
2. reason

From Old Norse vangr.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑŋː/

vang m (definite singular vangen, indefinite plural vangar, definite plural vangane)

1. a meadow, grassy area, grassy plain
   • 1868, Henrik Krohn, Han Trond i Fjelli:

     […] fraa Hesten, som kneggjad til honom paa Vangen.

     […] from the horse, that neighed to him on the meadow.

• “vang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vang

1. accusative singular of vangr

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vaːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [vaːŋ˧˧] ~ [jaːŋ˧˧]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vang • (㘇)

1. to echo; to resound

Borrowed from French vin.

vang

1. (colloquial) short for rượu vang (“wine”)

From Austronesian; compare Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səpaŋ (whence Malay sepang). Cognates outside of Austronesian include: Muong Bi pang, Khmer ស្បែង (sbaeng), Chinese 蘇枋 / 苏枋 (sūfāng).

(classifier cây) vang • (榮, 𣞁, 㮠)

1. sappanwood (Biancaea sappan)