Fang
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "fang"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fang pl (plural only)
Translations
[edit]people
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Proper noun
[edit]Fang
- The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
- A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.
Translations
[edit]the language of Guinea which is also called Pahouin
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See also
[edit]- Wiktionary's coverage of Fang (Bantu) terms
- Ethnologue entry for Fang, fan
- Wiktionary's coverage of Fang (Beboid) terms
- Ethnologue entry for Fang, fak
Etymology 2
[edit]The county sense is from Mandarin 房 (Fáng). The surname sense could be from Mandarin 方 (Fāng), 房 (Fáng), 芳 (Fāng), 仿 (Fǎng) or 放 (Fǎng).
Proper noun
[edit]Fang
- A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 2018 August 26, Laurie Chen, “Dreamers, crackpots or realists? The diehards on the trail of China’s ‘Bigfoot’”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2018[5]:
- “Its speed was very fast, but it was walking, not running,” Yuan said. As the creature ranged across a mountain in Fang county, bordering the Shennongjia Forestry District, “it walked faster than a human ran”.
- 2019, Na Li, Ni Yan, “Present Situation and Development Suggestions of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry in Hubei Province”, in 2019 4th International Conference on Education and Social Development (ICESD 2019)[6], , →ISBN, page 147:
- Hubei Sanxin Biotechnology Co., LTD, located in Fang County, Shiyan City, has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine [from] Polygonum Cuspidatum, including "yellow bud stem" vegetables, resveratrol extract, emodin extract, and crude Polygonum cuspidatum extract and so on.
- 2020 March 12, “Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS”, in The New York Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia Pacific[8]:
- Now, the Fang County government is trying “incentives,” according to a statement posted Saturday on its website. People who report their own fevers will receive 1,000 renminbi, the equivalent of $143 — a few days’ salary for the average Hubei resident.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fang.
- A surname from Mandarin
Synonyms
[edit]- Fangxian (county)
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fang Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, column 2
Fang (Bantu)
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Fang
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vanc, ultimately from the root of fangen (“to catch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Fang m (strong, genitive Fanges or Fangs, plural Fänge)
- catch, capture
- booty, prey
- haul, draught
- fang, talon, claw, tusk
- (hunting) coup de grâce
- hunting, fishing (fish, whales)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Fang [masculine, strong]
Further reading
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- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æŋ
- Rhymes:English/æŋ/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English pluralia tantum
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms borrowed from Mandarin
- English terms derived from Mandarin
- en:Counties of China
- en:Places in Hubei
- en:Places in China
- English terms with quotations
- English surnames
- English surnames from Mandarin
- en:Languages
- en:Tribes
- Fang (Bantu) lemmas
- Fang (Bantu) proper nouns
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:German/aŋ
- Rhymes:German/aŋ/1 syllable
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Hunting