sang

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sang"

Languages (25)

English

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: săng; IPA^(key): /sæŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [saŋ], [sæŋ]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [sæŋ], [seɪŋ]

    • Audio (US):

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  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [sɛŋ]
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Etymology 1

Verb

sang

1. simple past of sing

Translations

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Etymology 2

Noun

sang

1. Alternative form of sheng (“Chinese wind instrument”).

See also

• pur sang
• sang-froid
• sang wenhua

Anagrams

• AGNs, Angs, ngas, snag, NSAG, GNAs, nags, ANGs, gans, GANs, SNAG

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sang~sanch, from Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Classical Latin sanguinem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, oblique stem of *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Its gender could also be masculine in Old Catalan, as it was in Latin. Compare Occitan sang, French sang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsaŋk]

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• Rhymes: -aŋk

Noun

sang f (plural sangs)

1. blood

Derived terms

• sangassa
• sangfluix
• sangota

Related terms

• sagnar
• sangonera
• sangonós

References

• “sang” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫngr.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [sɑŋˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋˀ

Noun

sang c (singular definite sangen, plural indefinite sange)

1. song
2. singing

Inflection

Declension of sang

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sang	sangen	sange	sangene
genitive	sangs	sangens	sanges	sangenes

Verb

sang

1. past of synge

Eastern Cham

Alternative forms

• ꨧꩃ

Etymology

Cognate with Western Cham sang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːŋ/

Noun

sang

1. house, home
2. other small building

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sanguis.

Noun

sang m (plural sangs) (ORB, broad)

1. blood

References

• sang in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sang in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sanc, from Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, oblique stem of *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃/, (dated, in liaison) /sɑ̃.k‿/

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• Homophones: cent, cents, san, sangs, sans, sens, sent
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Noun

sang m (plural sangs)

1. blood

Derived terms

• à sang chaud
• avoir du sang sur les mains
• bain de sang
• bon sang
• coup de sang
• don de sang
• frère de sang
• glacer le sang
• goutte de sang
• jusqu'au sang
• mettre à feu et à sang
• par le sang versé
• pleurer des larmes de sang
• prise de sang
• rouge sang
• saigner
• sang bleu
• sang-froid
• sanglant
• sanguin
• sanguinaire
• sanguinolent
• se faire du mauvais sang
• se faire un sang d'encre
• se ronger les sangs
• suer sang et eau

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: san
• Haitian Creole: san

Further reading

• “sang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “sang” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “sang” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Friulian

Alternative forms

• sanc (standard orthography)

Noun

sang m

1. alternative form of sanc

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

Verb

sang

1. past of singen

Jarai

Noun

sang (classifier bôh)

1. house

References

Siu, Lap Minh (December 2009), Developing the First Preliminary Dictionary of North American Jarai‎, Texas Tech University, page 106

Lombard

Alternative forms

• sangh (historical orthographies)
• sanch (modern Eastern orthographies)
• sangu (outdated)

Etymology

From Latin sanguis. Cognate to Catalan sang, French sang, Italian sangue, Piedmontese sangh, Romanian sânge, Spanish sangre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːnɡ/, [saːŋɡ̊], [sɑːŋɡ̊]
• IPA^(key): /saːnɡ/, [haŋk] (Eastern valleys)
• IPA^(key): /saːnɡw/, [saːŋɡ̊ʷ], [sɑːŋɡ̊ʷ] (archaic)

Noun

sang m (invariable)

1. blood

Malay

Article

sang

1. (formal, poetic) the (used in proper names)

   Hikayat Sang Kancil

   Tales of the Mousedeer

Synonyms

• si (usually informal)

Mandarin

Romanization

sang

1. nonstandard spelling of sāng
2. nonstandard spelling of sǎng
3. nonstandard spelling of sàng

Usage notes

• 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.

Middle English

Noun

sang

1. alternative form of song

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sanc, from Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis.

Noun

sang m (plural sangs)

1. blood

Descendants

• French: sang

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sanc, from Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis.

Noun

sang m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) blood

Derived terms

• doque à sang, fielles à sang, hèrbe à sang, sang d'dragon (“wood dock”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse sǫngr (“song”), from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *songʷʰos, derived from *singwaną (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti, from *sengʷʰ- (“to recite, sing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saŋ/, [sɑŋ]

Noun

sang m (definite singular sangen, indefinite plural sanger, definite plural sangene)

1. a song

Derived terms

• fuglesang
• nasjonalsang
• sangbok
• sangfugl
• sangsolist

Etymology 2

Verb

sang

1. past of synge

See also

• song (Nynorsk)

References

“sang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sang m or f (uncountable)

1. blood

Old English

Alternative forms

• song

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sangwaz. Cognate with Old High German sanc, Old Norse sǫngr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑnɡ/, [sɑŋɡ]

Noun

sang m (nominative plural sangas)

1. song
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 24‎:

     …Hwīlum iċ onhyrġe þone haswan earn, gūðfugles hlēoþor; hwīlum glidan reorde mūþe ġemǣne, hwīlum mǣwes song, þǣr iċ glado sitte.

     …Sometimes I imitate the grey eagle, a speech of war-bird; sometimes a kite's voice with common mouth, sometimes a gull's song when I sit gladful.

2. (Christianity) liturgical service

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sang	sangas
accusative	sang	sangas
genitive	sanges	sanga
dative	sange	sangum

Derived terms

• ǣfensang
• lēoþsang
• lofsang
• middæġsang
• nihtsang
• nōnsang
• prīmsang
• sangere
• tīdsang
• uhtsang
• undernsang
• wuldorsang

Descendants

• Middle English: song, sange, sang, songe, soong, songge, zang, zong, zonge (Kent)
  • English: song
  • Scots: song, sang
  • Yola: zong

Romagnol

Noun

sang m (plural sẽng)

1. alternative form of sângv (“blood”)
   • 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:

     Lí la guardè ch'un'i foss mai nissò
     E l'am stricchè un pó l'occ e la m'ha dett:
     «Va là t'si d'e' mi sang. T'an sì un coion.»

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sanguem, alteration of Latin sanguinem, accusative of sanguis.

Noun

sang m

1. blood

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋ/ [ˈsaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: sang

Noun

sang (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔)

1. alternative form of tsang: spring onion

References

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier: “Nardo. Sibuyas. pp. sang. pc. lasoná. pc.”
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642; republished as Fabio Yuchung Lee (李毓中), Chen Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), Regalado Trota José, José Luis Caño Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂaːŋ˧˧] ~ [saːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂaːŋ˧˧] ~ [saːŋ˧˧]

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Etymology 1

Cognate with Muong [Mãn Đức] khang.

Attested in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集; 15th cent.) as 𢀨, composed of 巨 (MC gjoX) + 郎 (MC lang) (modern SV: cự lang); which points to an etymon with onset *k-r-. (Trần Trọng Dương, 2012)

Adjective

sang • (郎, 𢀨, 󱮶, 󱞻, 廊, 朗)

1. expensive, luxurious
   • 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “Ngôn chí 言志 9”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):

     𢀨共庫𪽝蒸𡗶
     吝木爫之朱辱唏

     Sang cùng khó bởi chưng trời,
     Lặn mọc làm chi cho nhọc hơi.

     [To be born into] Wealth or poverty are both at heaven's whims;
     It is just wasting one's breath to try and alter it.

See also

• cao sang
• giàu sang
• sang chảnh
• sang trọng
• thấy người sang bắt quàng làm họ

Etymology 2

Attested in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集; 15th cent.) as 𢀨, composed of 巨 (MC gjoX) + 郎 (MC lang) (modern SV: cự lang); which points to an etymon with onset *k-r-. (Trần Trọng Dương, 2012)

Verb

sang • (𢀨, 郎, 𨖅, 𨄂)

1. to go over, to come over, to cross
2. to transfer

See also

• sang năm
• sang ngang

Western Cham

Alternative forms

• ساڠ

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Cham sang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saŋ/

Noun

sang

1. house, home
2. other small building

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From -ng (“irrealis negation suffix”).

Suffix

sang

1. Irrealis negation suffix form attached to verbs or adjectives: to not be

   asta walaxsang rasye ― I guess it will not rain tomorrow

Related terms

• sinay

References

• Chien Yuehchen; Shinji Sanada (2011), “台湾の宜蘭クレオールにおける否定辞―「ナイ」と「ン」の変容をめぐって― [Negation in Taiwan’s Yilan Creole: Focusing on -nay and -ng]”, in 言語研究 [Gengo Kenkyu]‎, number 140, pages 73-87

Zhuang

Etymology

Cognate with Bouyei saangl.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “cognate with สูง (sǔung)?”

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaːŋ˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sang¹
• Hyphenation: sang

Adjective

sang (Sawndip forms 𮪼 or 桑 or 𫶐 or 𱅷 or 丧 or 𭫌, 1957–1982 spelling saŋ)

1. tall

   Antonym: daemq

2. high

   Antonym: daemq