ang

Possibly clipping of Anglo-Saxon (“Old English”).

ang

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old English.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old English terms

ang

1. (computing) alternative letter-case form of ANG

From Proto-Albanian *anga, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(o)nǵʰ- (“narrow”), Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“to constrict”). Cognate to Latin angō (“to cramp (up), constrict”), German eng (“narrow”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aŋ(ɡ)/

ang m (definite angje, definite plural angu) (dialectal)

1. nightmare
2. incubus
3. (mythology) shapeless ghost who appears in dreams ^{[2] [3]}

• ankth
• angësht
• angërduf
• angari
• angullin

• eng

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

ang

1. I

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaŋ/ [ʔaŋ]

ang (Basahan spelling ᜀᜅ᜔)

1. alternative form of an

From Proto-Central Philippine *aŋ. Cognate with Tagalog ang, Bikol Central an, Hiligaynon ang, Waray-Waray an, Kapampangan ing, Tausug in. Compare archaic ing, now used in the form 'y.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaŋ/ [ʔɐŋ]

ang

1. direct marker for all nouns other than personal proper nouns

   Midagan ang lalaki.

   The man ran.

   Gikaon sa iring ang isda.

   The cat ate the fish.

Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

áng

1. I

From French angle.

• IPA^(key): /ãɡ/, [ãŋ]

ang

1. angle

For pronunciation and definitions of ang – see 翁 (“elderly man; father; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 翁).

ang f (genitive singular anga, nominative plural angaí)

1. alternative form of eang (“track, gusset”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ang”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from Burmese အင် (ang).

ang

1. water basin

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[2], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

ang

1. nonstandard spelling of āng
2. nonstandard spelling of áng
3. nonstandard spelling of ǎng
4. nonstandard spelling of àng

• 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.

ang

1. you, your, yours; Second-person singular pronoun (informal)

   Synonyms: angkau, awak, kau

ang (construct angen)

1. claw (of a lobster or crab)
2. tentacle
3. ray (of sunlight)

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːŋ/

āng

1. alternative form of ēnich

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Unclear origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”).

ang n

1. fragrance

• anga
• angi

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ang”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• 'ng — contraction, informal, after words ending with vowel, usually in set phrases

From Proto-Central Philippine *aŋ. Cognate with Bikol Central an, Cebuano ang, Hiligaynon ang, Waray-Waray an. See also Kapampangan ing and Tausug in.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaŋ/ [ʔɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: ang
• Homophone: Ang

ang (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜅ᜔)

1. direct marker for all nouns other than personal proper nouns

   Tumakbo ang lalaki.

   The man ran.

   Kinain ng pusa ang isda.

   The cat ate the fish.

   Ang kidlat ay gumuguhit ng mga ugat sa taniman ng langit.

   (The) lightning sketches roots under the soil of the sky.

2. used with a quality for emphasis and to give it an adjectival meaning

   Synonyms: (Rizal) bang, (Cavite) dang, (Nueva Ecija) budang

   Ang ganda! ― How pretty! (literally, “The beauty!”)

   Ang tapang! ― How audacious! (literally, “The audacity!”)

• This particle is typically interpreted by native speakers as the equivalent of the English definite article (the) when used alone, and as the indefinite article (a or an) when paired with the numeral isa (“one”).

  ang araw ― the sun

  ang isang tao ― a person

• Direct personal proper nouns (primarily names) are marked with si.
• In colloquial speech, ang is often replaced by yung (from iyon (“that”)) when functioning as a direct case marker, but not when used as an exclamatory intensifier (as in ang ganda!).

• “ang”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “ang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1979–1983) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 1, page 18
• Robert Blust (2012) “The Proto—Malayo-Polynesian Multiplicative Ligature *ŋa: A Reply to Reid”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎^[3], volume 51, number 2, →ISSN, pages 538–566

• nag-, nga, Gan

• (central Vietnam, southern Vietnam) ảng

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 盎 (SV: áng).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaːŋ˧˧]

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(classifier cái) ang • (盎, 𤮃, 坱, 央, 垵)

1. (Northern Vietnam) a kind of water container
2. a kind of betel container
3. (historical) a traditional instrument made from wood or bamboo, used to measure grain