tang

Etymology 1
From, variant of , from , perhaps related to 🇨🇬. But see also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
 * 2) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
 * 3)  A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
 * 4) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
 * 5) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
 * 6) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
 * 7)  The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
 * 8)  Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family, especially the genus.
 * 9)  A shuffleboard paddle.
 * 10) * 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
 * Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
 * 1)  Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
 * 1) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
 * 2) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
 * 3) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
 * 4)  The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
 * 5)  Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family, especially the genus.
 * 6)  A shuffleboard paddle.
 * 7) * 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
 * Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
 * 1)  Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
 * 1) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
 * 2)  The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
 * 3)  Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family, especially the genus.
 * 4)  A shuffleboard paddle.
 * 5) * 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
 * Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
 * 1)  Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
 * 1) * 1667, John Lacy, Sauny the Scot: Or, the Taming of the Shrew, Act V,
 * Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
 * 1)  Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
 * Sauny Hear ye, sir; could not ye mistake, and pull her tang out instead of her teeth?
 * 1)  Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Finnish:
 * French: saveur piquante
 * German:
 * Italian: sapore intenso,, ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:, respigo
 * Ingrian: keeli
 * Italian:
 * Ukrainian: хвостовик


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:, respigo
 * German: ,
 * Ingrian: keeli
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 슴베
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: tange
 * Ottoman Turkish: سنخ
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: хвостовик, тулійка


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, respigo
 * Ingrian: keeli
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:, espigão
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: хвостовик


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: pesce chirurgo
 * Portuguese: peixe-cirurgião


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Spanish: sabor fuerte; acidez, sabor ácido; olor penetrante

Noun

 * 1) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
 * 2) To make a ringing sound; to ring.

Etymology 3
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1)  knotted wrack,  coarse blackish seaweed

Etymology 4
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Noun

 * 1)  The vagina or vulva.
 * 2)  Sexual intercourse with a woman
 * 1)  Sexual intercourse with a woman

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tongue

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tongue

Noun

 * 1) sea

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) tongs
 * 2) forceps

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) seaweed

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) pliers
 * 2) tongs
 * 3)  pincers, tweezers
 * 4)  shrew, bitch

Etymology

 * From (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), with the meaning change rod > something prickly > prickly ear (of wheat etc) > grain.
 * From Finno-Mordovian, in that case cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Original meaning presumably was "something hard, stiff".

Noun

 * 1) groat hulled grain

Conjunction

 * 1) but

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to use the

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) the  of , a metallic sound.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tenrec

Noun

 * 1) side

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) (a pair of) pliers, pincers
 * 2) (a pair of) forceps

Etymology 2
From, compare with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) kelp, seaweed

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) kelp, seaweed

Usage notes

 * Prior to a 2019 revision, it was also considered grammatically neuter. With this change, definite singular was made non-standard.

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) narrow
 * 2) troubled

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tenrec

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) tongue

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) tank

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  tongue

Etymology 1
.

Noun



 * 1) a series of events that encompasses a funeral, a burial or cremation, and a period of mourning spanning up to 3 years after the lunar date of death

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  tangent

Noun

 * 1)  shell body of a drum

Noun

 * 1)  evidence of wrongdoing

Usage notes
This sense only occurs in some compound words.

Noun

 * 1)  something or someone insignificant

Noun

 * 1)  mulberry
 * 2)  silkworm

Usage notes
This sense only occurs in some compound words.

Noun

 * 1) Buddhist copper instrument