bangs

See also: Bangs

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bæŋ(ɡ)z/
• Rhymes: -æŋz

Etymology 1

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

Noun

bangs pl (normally plural, singular bang)

1. plural of bang
2. (chiefly US, Philippines) Hair hanging over the forehead.
3. (chiefly US) A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.

Synonyms

• (hair): forelocks; fringe (UK); bang (archaic US)
• (hairstyle): fringe (UK); bang (archaic US)

Derived terms

• air bangs
• baby bangs
• curtain bangs
• emo bangs
• micro bangs
• TERF bangs

 

Translations

hair that hangs down over the forehead

• Albanian: balluke (sq) f
• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: قذلة f (giḏla), قدلة f (gidla)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܣܟܝܢܝܬܐ f

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: бретон m (breton), перчем (bg) m (perčem)
• Catalan: serrell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 劉海／刘海 (zh) (liúhǎi), 劉海兒／刘海儿 (zh) (liúhǎir)

• Czech: ofina f
• Danish: pandehår (da)
• Dutch: pony (nl) m, froefroe m
• Esperanto: franĝo (eo), fruntharoj pl
• Estonian: tukk
• Faroese: fruntur m
• Finnish: otsatukka (fi)
• French: frange (fr) f
• Galician: guedelleira f, liceira f, zarrallas f, cerras f, milfeira f
• Georgian: შუბლზე შეჭრილი თმა (šublze šeč̣rili tma)
• German: Pony (de) m
• Greek: αφέλειες (el) f pl (aféleies), αφέλεια (el) f (aféleia), φράντζα (el) f (frántza)
• Hebrew: פוני (he) m (póni)
• Hungarian: frufru (hu)
• Icelandic: toppur m
• Irish: frainse m, glib f
• Italian: frangia (it) f, frangetta f
• Japanese: 前髪 (ja) (maegami, まえがみ)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 앞머리 (ko) (ammeori)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەرچەم (ckb) (perçem)

  Northern Kurdish: pirç (ku) f, perçem (ku) f, kakul (ku) f

• Latvian: čolka f, ponijs m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: шишка f (šiška)
• Maori: tope, puahau
• Norwegian: pannelugg m, lugg (no) m
• Persian: کاکل (fa) (kâkol)
• Polish: grzywka (pl) f
• Portuguese: franja (pt) f
• Romanian: breton (ro) n
• Russian: чёлка (ru) f (čólka), чу́бчик (ru) m (čúbčik), чуб (ru) m (čub)
• Serbo-Croatian: šiške (sh)
• Spanish: flequillo (es) m, (Colombia) capul m, (Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) cerquillo m, (Chile) chasquilla f, (Colombian Caribbean Coast) china (es) f, (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) fleco (es) m, (Costa Rica, Nicaragua) pava (es) f, (Northwestern Spain) perrera f, (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) pollina (es) f
• Swedish: lugg (sv) c
• Thai: หน้าม้า (th) (nâa-máa)
• Turkish: kâkül (tr), perçem (tr)
• Ukrainian: гри́вка f (hrývka)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: eddi gwallt pl, bargod f
• Yiddish: גריווקע f (grivke)

Verb

bangs

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bang

Etymology 2

Shortened from Bang's disease.

Noun

bangs (uncountable)

1. Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bangs, plural of bang, from Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian, *bangan or Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bangs

Noun

bangs

1. bang; a fringe of hair cut across the forehead

French

Noun

bangs m

1. plural of bang