# boomerang
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dharug bumariny.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbuːməɹæŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbuməɹæŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: boo‧me‧rang

### Noun

boomerang (plural boomerangs)
* A flat curved airfoil that spins about an axis perpendicular to the direction of flight, originally used in various parts of the world as a hunting weapon or, in returnable types, for sports or training.
    Synonym: kylie
** 1884, Andrew Lang, “Star Myths”, in Custom and Myth:Some resemblance to terrestrial things, it is true, everyone can behold in the heavens. Corona, for example, is like a crown, or, as the Australian black fellows know, it is like a boomerang, and we can understand why they give it the name of that curious curved missile.
** 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, History of West Australia:With boomerang and spear they hunted the kangaroo and emu, and fought their battles beneath the eucalyptus forests; their minds, fresh, untroubled, contented, oblivious alike of noble ideals and philosophic principles.
** 1961, Charlie Drake, song, My Boomerang Won't Come Back,
    "Don't worry, boy, I know the trick, / And to you I'm gonna show it. / If you want your boomerang to come back, / Well first you've got to... throw it."
* A breakdancing move in which the performer walks on their hands while keeping the legs raised off the ground.
* (Australian rules football, rugby) A boomerang kick.
* (theater) A device for changing the color of a followspot.
** 2013, Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting:Roll: A live action changing from one color to another. Typically requires dexterity to "crossfade" between two colors in the boomerang with one hand while following with the other.
** 2013, John Holloway, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 144:If you are spot one you should push down on the first lever on the boomerang to load frame one. Spot two should do the same with frame five. On the go, both spot ops should run their dowser levers to bring the light up on the target specified by the cue caller.
* (RAF slang) The early return of an aircraft whose mission was aborted, often due to technical failures.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.
* A cocktail made with rye whiskey and Swedish punsch.

#### Derived terms

* boomerang baby
* boomerang child
* boomerang dysplasia
* boomerang effect
* boomeranger
* boomerang kick
* boomerang kid
* boomeranglike
* boomerang pillow

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: ブーメラン (būmeran)

#### Translations

Adnyamathanha: wadna, marrawirri, apiwirlanha
Afrikaans: boemerang (af)
Albanian: bumerang (sq) ?
Arabic: بُومَرَانْغ m (būmarānḡ), عُرْجُد m (ʕurjud)
Armenian: բումերանգ (hy) (bumerang)
Asturian: bumerán m
Azerbaijani: bumeranq
Baagandji: wana
Bardi: irrgil
Barngarla: wadna
Basque: bumerang
Bengali: বুমেরাং (bn) (bumeraṅ)
Bulgarian: бумеранг m (bumerang)
Catalan: bumerang (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 回飛棒 / 回飞棒 (huífēibàng), 回旋鏢 / 回旋镖 (zh) (huíxuánbiāo), 飛去來器 / 飞去来器 (zh) (fēiqùláiqì), 飛鏢 / 飞镖 (zh) (fēibiāo), 回力鏢 / 回力镖 (zh) (huílìbiāo), 飛旋鏢 / 飞旋镖 (fēixuánbiāo)
Czech: bumerang m
Danish: boomerang (da) c
Darkinjung: barkan
Dharug: buumarang
Dutch: boemerang (nl) m
Dyirbal: warrginy
Eastern Arrernte: alye
Egyptian: (ꜥꜣm)
Esperanto: bumerango (eo)
Estonian: bumerang
Finnish: bumerangi (fi)
French: boomerang (fr) m
Gagadu: barrgeeli
Galician: búmerang m
Gamilaraay: barran
Garawa: ngubungu
Georgian: ბუმერანგი (bumerangi)
German: Bumerang (de) m
Greek: μπούμερανγκ (el) n (boúmerangk)
Guugu Yimidhirr: wangi
Hebrew: בּוּמֶרַנְג m (bumerang)
Hindi: बुमेरांग ? (bumerāṅg)
Hungarian: bumeráng (hu)
Icelandic: bjúgverpill m
Ido: bumerango (io)
Ilocano: palladaw
Indonesian: bumerang (id)
Italian: boomerang (it) m, bumerang m
Japanese: ブーメラン (ja) (būmeran)
Kala Lagaw Ya: please add this translation if you can
Kaurna: wadna
Kayardild: wangalka
Korean: 부메랑 (bumerang)
Kunbarlang: pirrikala
Latvian: bumerangs m
Lithuanian: bumerangas m
Murrinh-Patha: kuragadha
Narungga: wadna
Ngadjuri: wadna
Ngarluma: wirrba,wirri
Ngarrindjeri: pankety, pankatji, yereyeraipi, tulanggi, wanar
Ngunawal: berra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bumerang (no) m
Nynorsk: bumerang m
Nukunu: watna
Nyunga: please add this translation if you can
Persian: بومرنگ
Pitjantjatjara: kaḻi
Polish: bumerang (pl) m inan
Portuguese: bumerangue (pt) m
Romanian: bumerang (ro) n
Russian: бумера́нг (ru) m (bumeráng)
Slovak: bumerang m
Spanish: bumerán (es) m, búmeran (es) m
Swedish: bumerang (sv) c
Tagalog: haliryo, bumeran
Turkish: bumerang (tr)
Ukrainian: бумера́нг (uk) m (bumeránh)
Volapük: bumär
Walmajarri: karli
Wambaya: juguli
Wangkumara: pakarranyi
Wardaman: bura
Warlpiri: jilypirrpa, jurluparli, karli, kurrupardu
Western Arrernte: alye
Woiwurrung: wangim, wonguim :

#### See also

* frisbee
* woomera

### Verb

boomerang (third-person singular simple present boomerangs, present participle boomeranging, simple past and past participle boomeranged)
* (intransitive) To return or rebound unexpectedly, especially when the result is undesired; to backfire.
** 1882 March 7, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters:"Well, there must be some flaw about this," I suggested. "If your magnet is so strong as all that, you would have your own broadside boomeranging back upon you."
** 1899 November, “"Showin' Off"”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 99, number 594:"Oh," they yelled, "you could, eh? Well, let's see you do it, then! Let's see you do it! Let's see you do it! Now!" In a moment the crew of little spectators were gibing at Horace. The blow that would make Jimmie's humiliation complete! Instead, it had boomeranged Horace into the mud.
** 1985 February 2, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address:Our future economic success depends on the economy growing faster than government spending. That's why raising taxes would boomerang. Economic growth would slow, revenues would decline, and the budget deficit would swell.
* (intransitive) To travel in a curved path.
** 1894, Henry Lawson, “The Mystery of Dave Regan”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse‎:He said that to the horse as it boomeranged off again and broke away through the scrub.
* (RAF slang) To abort a mission and return to base early.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:boomerang.

#### See also

* bounce back

### Further reading

* Discussion of the history of the etymology of the term on the Transient Languages & Cultures blog

### Anagrams

* boogerman

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boomerang, from Dharug bumariny.

### Noun

boomerang c (definite singular boomerangen, indefinite plural boomeranger, definite plural boomerangerne)
* a boomerang

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boomerang.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bum.ʁɑ̃ɡ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

boomerang m (plural boomerangs)
* boomerang

### Further reading

* “boomerang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* bumerán, bumerang

### Noun

boomerang m (plural boomerangs)
* boomerang