# stang
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: stăng, IPA: /stæŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English stang, stong, from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangiz, *stangō (“bar, rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʰ-, *stegʰ- (“to stick, sting, prick, be stiff”).

#### Noun

stang (plural stangs)
* (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.
** 2006 January 7, Lady Sabrina, Exploring Wicca, Updated Edition, →ISBN, page 87:The stang represents the horned god and the masculine force of nature. Much like the wand or athame, the stang is used for raising or directing power […]
** 2009 June 22, Yowie, “Sikh Quaker?”, in soc.religion.quaker‎:In more common (and private) Wiccan circles, the stang is replaced by the athame (black handled knife) and the cauldron replaced with the chalice but its pretty much /whatever works for you/.
** 2014 January 8, Ann Moura, Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft, →ISBN, page 7:These stangs can be used as natural altars in outdoor rituals or simply as walking staffs.
* (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
** 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:Gripping the stang, she peered / At ghostly trees. Bus stopped. Bus disappeared.
* (obsolete or historical) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.
** 1880, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels into several Remote Nations of the World - Part I, Chapter II (page 15):
    These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang,*... (with the corresponding footnote: "An old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half. These small woods were therefore eight feet and a quarter.")

##### Derived terms

* stang ball
* ride the stang

### Etymology 2

From Middle English stangen, from Old Norse stanga (“prick, goad”).

#### Verb

stang (third-person singular simple present stangs, present participle stanging, simple past and past participle stanged)
* (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.
* (transitive, Scotland) To spear; to sting.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

stang
* (dialect, rare) simple past of sting

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

stang (plural stangs)
* (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

### Anagrams

* 'ganst, Gnats, Tangs, Tsang, angst, gnast, gnat's, gnats, tangs

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

### Noun

stang c (singular definite stangen, plural indefinite stænger)
* bar
* rod
* pole
* crossbar

#### Derived terms

* stangdrukken (adjective)
* stangspring n
* stangtøj n

### References

* “stang” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* steng

### Etymology

From Middle Dutch stanghe, from Old Dutch *stanga, from Proto-West Germanic *stangu, from Proto-Germanic *stangō.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑŋ

### Noun

stang m (plural stangen, diminutive stangetje n)
* bar (of metal, wood, etc.)

#### Derived terms

* optrekstang

#### Related terms

* stengel

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: sêtang
* → Polish: stenga

#### See also

* baar f
* blok n
* staaf f

### Anagrams

* angst

## Khasi
### Etymology

Compare Khmer ស្ដើង (sdaəng).

### Adjective

stang
* thin

### References

* Singh, U Nissor (1906) Khasi-English dictionary‎, Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 211. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse stǫng, from Proto-Germanic *stangō; some senses are from the related verb stangen. Compare steng.

#### Alternative forms

* stange, stong

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstanɡ/, /ˈstaːnɡ/, /ˈstɔnɡ/, /ˈstɔːnɡ/

#### Noun

stang (plural stanges) (chiefly Northern)
* A pole; a wooden bar.
* A sting or bite.
* A stinger (barbed point of an insect)

##### Descendants

* English: stang, stong
* Scots: stang, stong

##### References

* “stang, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* “stang, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

stang
* Alternative form of stangen

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse stǫng.

### Noun

stang f or m (definite singular stanga or stangen, indefinite plural stenger, definite plural stengene)
* a bar, pole, rod, lever, staff, stick, shaft
* rod, 3.1374 metres

#### Derived terms

* flaggstang
* jernstang

### See also

* stong (Nynorsk)

### References

* “stang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “stang_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɑnɡ/, [stɑŋɡ]

### Verb

stang
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of stingan

## Swedish
### Verb

stang
* past indicative of stinga