hang

af-verb

hang (present hang, present participle hangende, past participle gehang)

hang (present)
hangende (participle present)
gehang (participle past)

From Dutch hangen, a merger of Middle Dutch hangen and haen.


hang

From Proto-Central Bahnaric *haːŋ, from Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ꨨꩃ (hang).


hang

(Metro Cebu, Bohol, Southern Leyte) Alternative form of halang


hang

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for hang機 /hang机 (heng¹ gei¹).


hang

Manden har hang til raseri.

inclination or disposition towards something

head

hang c (singular definite hangen, not used in plural form)

From German Hang, a noun derived from the verb hangen (see hängen (“to hang”)).


hang

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


hang

a support for hanging objects, such as a nail for a picture frame

Hij werd gedreven door een hang naar status.

nl-noun

hang c (plural hangen, diminutive hangetje n)

hangen (plural)
hangetje (diminutive neuter)


hang

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative


hang

The lights hung from the ceiling.

On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty. Mrs. Bunting was very fond of these pictures; she thought they gave the drawing-room a note of elegance and refinement.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0111:

(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.

The smoke hung in the room.

It was a couple of days after the crash, with the smell of burning still hanging in the air from the incinerated wreckage of Coach H, where 31 passengers lost their lives, when I visited the West London site.

2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3:

(intransitive) To float, as if suspended.

The jockey claimed that the horse hung towards the outside[…]

1979, Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, New South Wales Law Reports (non-fiction), New South Wales: Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, published 1979, page 16:

(intransitive) To veer in one direction.

(intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.

He hung his head in shame.

(transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.

Hang those lights from the ceiling.

to hang a door

It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 17:1-2:

(transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.

The culprits were hanged from the nearest tree.

'[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—'

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

As things go from bad to worse for Putin in his maniacal, murderous attack on Ukraine, he could end up like Milosevic, or worse. The court could change its rules and hang him, the way the Allies hanged Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II.

2022 March 10, Peter Lucas, “Lucas: Putin has blood on his hands and The Hague must make him pay”, in Boston Herald, archived from the original on 2022-08-06:

(transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.

You will hang for this, my friend.

(intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.

Helena
That depends on how much of the factory you show me.
Domin
Oh, hang the factory. Oh, no, no, you shall see everything, Miss Glory. Indeed you shall. Won't you sit down?

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

[H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 11:

(transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.

I didn't see anything, officer. I was just hanging.

He banned spearfishing wherever he could, started the first eco-moorings in the Caribbean, stopped others from coral- and shell-collecting, and had so much fun 24/7 that some unusually powerful people began to hang with him.

2006, Scuba Diving, numbers 1-6, page 49:

(intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.

To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.

(transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.

Let's hang this cute animal design in the nursery.

(transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).

Let's hang the nursery with some new wallpaper.

(transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

To decorate (something) with hanging objects.

Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpetre; indeed, no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.

1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:

(intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

To remain persistently in one's thoughts.

One obstinate juror can hang a jury.

(transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.

The computer has hung again. Not even pressing <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Del> works.

When I push this button the program hangs.

(intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.

The program has a bug that can hang the system.

(transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.

If you move there, you'll hang your rook.

(transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.

In this standard opening position White has to be careful because the pawn on e4 hangs.

(intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.

McDougald then singled, and with a 3-2 count on Ellie Howard who was playing first base, Spahn hung a curve ball and Howard hit it over the wire fence in left field for a 4-4 tie.

2010, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, →ISBN, page 409:

(transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.

There were no whisperings, even from his opponents, that he was no better than he ought to be. Because, there was nothing wrong on which to hang a charge. As an eloquent orator, he carried with him the firm support of a good name.

1848, The American Pulpit, volume 3, Samuel Chism, published 1848, page 120:

Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.

1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, →ISBN, page 2:

(transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).

en-verb

hang (third-person singular simple present hangs, present participle hanging, simple past and past participle hung or (law) hanged)

hangs (present singular third-person)
hanging (participle present)
hung (participle past)
hung (past)
hanged (participle past)
hanged (past)

lynch

execute (someone) by suspension from the neck

hang up

to put a telephone handset back on a hook

bedeck

decorate (something) with hanging objects

freeze

computing: cause (a program or computer) to stop responding

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb

laat hang

to hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position

behangen

to apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall)

behang

to decorate (something) with hanging objects

roikkua

to remain persistently in one's thoughts

laat hang

computing: to cause (a program or computer) to stop responding

vystavit

chess: to cause to become vulnerable to capture

From Middle English hangen, hongen, from a fusion of Old English hōn (“to hang, be hanging”, transitive verb) and hangian (“to hang, cause to hang”, intransitive verb), from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han and *hangēn; also probably influenced by Old Norse hengja (“to suspend”) and hanga (“to be suspended”); all from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną, *hangāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to waver, be in suspense”).
See also Dutch hangen, Low German hangen and hängen, German hängen, Norwegian Bokmål henge, Norwegian Nynorsk henga; also Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (hāhan), Hittite 𒂵𒀀𒀭𒂵 (/kānk-/, “to hang”), Sanskrit शङ्कते (śáṅkate, “is in doubt, hesitates”), Latin cūnctārī (“to delay”).


hang

This skirt has a nice hang.

They advanced in a crouch, dropping to their knees every few yards to pass under a hang of rock.

2014, Matthew Jobin, The Nethergrim, volume 1:

“I don't see the hang of so much talky-talky,” broke in Uncle Sam. “We've heard all that can be said about things, […]

1911, Alexander MacDonald, The Invisible Island: A Story of the Far North of Queensland, page 105:

We sometimes get system hangs.

(computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.

(informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.

My first day was a fun hang, but I didn't really do too much. Me and stupid Bob just hung around the casino looking at box and losing money.

2008, Jim Norton, Happy Endings, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 25:

So how can you set up a hang within a 90-minute time-frame for yourself? Be clear with your friends about timing from the get-go, so they, too, can decide if it's worth their time to even meet up.

2021 April 14, Jen Kirsch, “A Good Hang Lasts No More Than 90 Minutes”, in InStyle, archived from the original on 2022-10-21:

He invited us over to his beautiful heritage home in downtown Toronto for a hang.

2021 October 27, Danielle McTaggart (quoted), Chelsea Brimstin, “Dear Rouge share sentimental video for delicate new single 'Life Goes By And I Can’t Keep Up'”, in Indie88, archived from the original on 2022-10-21:

She might announce something to everyone that makes no sense or tells a story that rambles on and on and makes no point. But for some reason nobody seems to mind. We all just like to listen to The Airhead. She's a fun hang.

2004, Relient K, Mark Nichols, The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 76:

"I couldn't sit down and play a concert for you or really wow you on any instrument," Mr. Blanco said, estimating that "like 75 percent" of his success comes from being a good hang. "What I can do is meet an artist, know what type of song I think we should make and be their therapist, make everyone feel comfortable."

2018 July 18, Joe Coscarelli, “How Benny Blanco Became the Most Popular Oddball in Pop Music”, in New York Times:

And maaaaaaaybe Superman would be a good hang, though I suspect that'd be a lot like hanging out with a youth pastor.

2019, Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres, Movies (And Other Things), Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:

(colloquial)
A person that someone hangs out with.


hang

(Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.

From hang sangwich, Irish colloquial pronunciation of ham sandwich.


hang

Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”)


hang

I don't give a hang.

They don't seem to care a hang about the consequences.

(colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.

Alteration of dang, itself a minced oath of damn.


hang

hangu (genitive)
hangu (partitive)
hang (nominative singular)
hangud (nominative plural)
hang (accusative nominative singular)
hangud (accusative nominative plural)
hangu (accusative genitive singular)
hangud (accusative genitive plural)
hangu (genitive singular)
hangude (genitive plural)
hangu (partitive singular)
hange (partitive plural)
hangusid (partitive plural)
hangu (illative singular)
hangusse (illative singular)
hangudesse (illative plural)
hangesse (illative plural)
hangus (inessive singular)
hangudes (inessive plural)
hanges (inessive plural)
hangust (elative singular)
hangudest (elative plural)
hangest (elative plural)
hangule (allative singular)
hangudele (allative plural)
hangele (allative plural)
hangul (adessive singular)
hangudel (adessive plural)
hangel (adessive plural)
hangult (ablative singular)
hangudelt (ablative plural)
hangelt (ablative plural)
hanguks (singular translative)
hangudeks (plural translative)
hangeks (plural translative)
hanguni (singular terminative)
hangudeni (plural terminative)
hanguna (essive singular)
hangudena (essive plural)
hanguta (abessive singular)
hangudeta (abessive plural)
hanguga (comitative singular)
hangudega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *hanko. Related to Finnish hanko.


hang

hange (genitive)
hange (partitive)
hang (nominative singular)
hanged (nominative plural)
hang (accusative nominative singular)
hanged (accusative nominative plural)
hange (accusative genitive singular)
hanged (accusative genitive plural)
hange (genitive singular)
hangede (genitive plural)
hange (partitive singular)
hangi (partitive plural)
hangesid (partitive plural)
hange (illative singular)
hangesse (illative singular)
hangedesse (illative plural)
hangisse (illative plural)
hanges (inessive singular)
hangedes (inessive plural)
hangis (inessive plural)
hangest (elative singular)
hangedest (elative plural)
hangist (elative plural)
hangele (allative singular)
hangedele (allative plural)
hangile (allative plural)
hangel (adessive singular)
hangedel (adessive plural)
hangil (adessive plural)
hangelt (ablative singular)
hangedelt (ablative plural)
hangilt (ablative plural)
hangeks (singular translative)
hangedeks (plural translative)
hangiks (plural translative)
hangeni (singular terminative)
hangedeni (plural terminative)
hangena (essive singular)
hangedena (essive plural)
hangeta (abessive singular)
hangedeta (abessive plural)
hangega (comitative singular)
hangedega (comitative plural)


hang

felemeli a hangját

lépések hangja

hangok (plural)
hang (nominative singular)
hangok (nominative plural)
hangot (accusative singular)
hangokat (accusative plural)
hangnak (dative singular)
hangoknak (dative plural)
hanggal (instrumental singular)
hangokkal (instrumental plural)
hangért (causal-final singular)
hangokért (causal-final plural)
hanggá (singular translative)
hangokká (plural translative)
hangig (singular terminative)
hangokig (plural terminative)
hangként (essive-formal singular)
hangokként (essive-formal plural)
hangban (inessive singular)
hangokban (inessive plural)
hangon (singular superessive)
hangokon (plural superessive)
hangnál (adessive singular)
hangoknál (adessive plural)
hangba (illative singular)
hangokba (illative plural)
hangra (singular sublative)
hangokra (plural sublative)
hanghoz (allative singular)
hangokhoz (allative plural)
hangból (elative singular)
hangokból (elative plural)
hangról (delative singular)
hangokról (delative plural)
hangtól (ablative singular)
hangoktól (ablative plural)
hangé (singular)
hangoké (plural)
hangéi (singular)
hangokéi (plural)
hangom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
hangjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
hangod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
hangjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
hangja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
hangjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
hangunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
hangjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
hangotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
hangjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
hangjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
hangjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From an unattested stem with the suffix -g.


hang

(informal, Kedah, Penang, Perlis) The person being spoken to; you.

kau-

informal/towards God; friendly/older towards younger


hang

(Kedah) Hiding place of a hunter from a wild animal.


hang

From Proto-Vietic *haːŋ. Cognate with Vietnamese hang.


hang

From Proto-Vietic *haːŋ. Cognate with Vietnamese hang, Muong hang.


hang

From Proto-Tai *trwɤːŋᴬ. Cognate with Thai หาง (hǎang), Northern Thai ᩉᩣ᩠ᨦ, Lao ຫາງ (hāng), Lü ᦠᦱᧂ (ḣaang), Tai Dam ꪬꪱꪉ, Shan ႁၢင် (hǎang), Tai Nüa ᥞᥣᥒᥴ (háang), Ahom 𑜍𑜂𑜫 (raṅ), Zhuang rieng or riengz, Bouyei riangl.


hang

head

𡎟, 馨, 𧯄, 𧯅, 𥧎

vi-noun

𡎟, 馨, 𧯄, 𧯅, 𥧎

cái (classifier)
𡎟 (CJK)
馨 (CJK)
𧯄 (CJK)
𧯅 (CJK)
𥧎 (CJK)

From Proto-Vietic *haːŋ (“cave”). Possibly related to the word reconstructed as Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaaŋ (“to open”) by Shorto (2006).