# Fang
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfæŋ/, /ˈfɑŋ/
* Rhymes: -æŋ

#### Noun

Fang pl (plural only)
* A people of western Africa.

##### Translations
#### Proper noun

Fang
* The dominant Bantu language of Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, spoken by 1.3 million people, also called Pahouin.
* A Beboid language of Cameroon, spoken by only 2400 people, so called because it is spoken in the village of Fang.

##### Translations
#### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Fang (Bantu) terms
* Ethnologue entry for Fang, fan ⁠
* Wiktionary's coverage of Fang (Beboid) terms
* Ethnologue entry for Fang, fak ⁠

### Etymology 2

The county sense is from Mandarin 房 (Fáng). The surname sense could be from Mandarin 方 (Fāng), 房 (Fáng), 芳 (Fāng), 仿 (Fǎng) or 放 (Fǎng).

#### Proper noun

Fang
* A county of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
** 1907, Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons‎, →OCLC, page 23:Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.
** 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China‎, numbers 471-479, →OCLC:FANG COUNTY HYDROELECTRICITY--This year the people in Fang County have developed 135 small hydroelectric power stations with a total installed[...]
** 1990, Eva Wong, transl., Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China‎, Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:After parting with his brothers, Wang Yü-yang journeyed on the southwest road and came to a small town nestled in the rural region of Fang County.
** 2018 August 26, Laurie Chen, “Dreamers, crackpots or realists? The diehards on the trail of China’s ‘Bigfoot’”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 August 2018‎:“Its speed was very fast, but it was walking, not running,” Yuan said. As the creature ranged across a mountain in Fang county, bordering the Shennongjia Forestry District, “it walked faster than a human ran”.
** 2019, Na Li, Ni Yan, “Present Situation and Development Suggestions of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry in Hubei Province”, in 2019 4th International Conference on Education and Social Development (ICESD 2019)‎, →DOI, →ISBN, page 147:Hubei Sanxin Biotechnology Co., LTD, located in Fang County, Shiyan City, has developed a series of traditional Chinese medicine [from] Polygonum Cuspidatum, including "yellow bud stem" vegetables, resveratrol extract, emodin extract, and crude Polygonum cuspidatum extract and so on.
** 2020 March 12, “Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia Pacific‎:Now, the Fang County government is trying “incentives,” according to a statement posted Saturday on its website. People who report their own fevers will receive 1,000 renminbi, the equivalent of $143 — a few days’ salary for the average Hubei resident.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fang.
* A surname from Mandarin

##### Synonyms

* Fangxian (county)

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fang Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, column 2

## Fang (Bantu)
### Proper noun

Fang
* Fang people
* Fang language (Pahouin)

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German vanc, ultimately from the root of fangen (“to catch”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faŋ/
* Rhymes: -aŋ
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Fang m (strong, genitive Fanges or Fangs, plural Fänge)
* catch, capture
* booty, prey
* haul, draught
* fang, talon, claw, tusk
* (hunting) coup de grâce
* hunting, fishing (fish, whales)

#### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

### Further reading

* “Fang” in Duden online
* “Fang” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache