dang

• enPR: dăng; IPA^(key): /dæŋ/
• (General American) enPR: dăng, dāng; IPA^(key): /dæŋ/, (phonemic /æ/-raising) /deɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋ, -eɪŋ

c. 1797,[1] a 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

dang (plural dangs)

1. (euphemistic) A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.

   I don't give a dang.

2. (humorous, rare) A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.
   • 2006 October 3, Lute Olson, David Fisher, Lute!: The Seasons of My Life, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:

     I don't often yell at my players or officials--I've never once thrown a chair, the best I ever did was a clipboard--and I never curse. People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang.

   • 2009, Chuck Holton, Melt Down, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 194:

     “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that. […]

See ding.

dang

1. (obsolete) simple past of ding

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

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dash.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander‎:

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

• “dang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “dang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

• N.D. Ga., NDGA, gDNA, gdna

A lengthening of danë, Gheg variant of darë. Compare Old High German zanga (“tongs”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

dang f

1. bite, nip

• darë

Borrowed from Burmese တိုင်း (tuing:).

dang

1. to measure

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

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dang

1. full

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

dang

1. second-person singular imperative of dangen

dang

1. water

• Manam organized phonology data (2011, SIL)

dang (dang⁵／dang⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄉㄤ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 當／当

dang

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

• 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.

From Haida dáng.

• 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”)