• (RP) enPR: tăng; IPA: /tʰæŋ/
• (America) enPR: tāng; IPA: /teɪŋ/

From Middle English tange, variant of tonge, from Old Norse tangi, perhaps related to Old Norse tunga.

tang (plural tangs)

1. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.

   Synonyms: bite, piquancy, spiciness, twang, zing

   Antonyms: blandness, dullness

   a tang of citrus

   • 1904, O. Henry, The Missing Chord:

     The miraculous air, heady with ozone and made memorably sweet by leagues of wild flowerets, gave tang and savour to the breath.

2. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.

   Synonyms: twang

   a tang of cellar

   Wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

3. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.

   a tang of pedantry

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC ↗:

     Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.

   • 1806, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Dr. Priestley”, in The Edinburgh Review:

     a cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics

   • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, At Sunset Time:

     What, was it I who bared my heart / Through unrelenting years, / And knew the sting of misery's dart, / The tang of sorrow's tears?

4. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

   Coordinate term: tab

   slip the cable over the tang

   1. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.

      full-tang

      A full-tang knife is strongest against handle breakage, but partial-tang knives are common because of a combination of facts: they are inexpensive, and in some applications any manner of use that would exceed the handle's limit is not an appropriate manner of use.

      1. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
         • 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter 27, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 200 ↗:

           I spent the evening collecting the abandoned nests of birds from a rock face a half league distant, and that night I struck fire from the tang of Terminus Est and boiled the coarse meal (which took a long time to cook, because of the altitude) and ate it.

   2. (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
      • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC ↗:

        The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang […]

5. (fish) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.

   Synonyms: surgeonfish

6. (games) A shuffleboard paddle.

   Coordinate term: biscuit

7. Obsolete form of tongue.
   • 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?

8. (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.

• Italian: aroma, olezzo, effluvio

• French: saveur piquante
• German: Beigeschmack
• Italian: sapore intenso, gusto, retrogusto, timbro

• German: Beigeschmack

• Italian: codolo

• German: Erl, Angel
• Italian: codolo
• Russian: хвостовик
• Spanish: espiga

• French: queue
• Italian: codolo
• Portuguese: espiga, espigão
• Spanish: espiga

• Italian: pesce chirurgo
• Portuguese: peixe-cirurgião

• Italian: linguetta

tang (plural tangs)

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

tang (tangs, present participle tanging; simple past and past participle tanged)

1. (dated, beekeeping) 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.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene v]:

     let thy tongue tang arguments of state

Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish tang, Swedish tång, Icelandic þang

tang

1. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum coarse blackish seaweed

tang

1. (countable, vulgar slang) The vagina or vulva.
2. (uncountable, vulgar slang) Sexual intercourse with a woman

• IPA: /tæŋ/, /tɑːŋ/

From Mandarin 唐.

1. The imperial dynasty of China which reigned from 618 to 907.
2. The Turkic dynasty of China which lasted from 923 to 936.
3. A kingdom in China which existed between 937 and 975.
4. Any of a number of places in China.
   1. A county in Baoding, Hebei.
5. Surname.

From Mandarin 湯.

1. Surname.

From Cantonese 滕.

1. Surname.

From Cantonese 鄧.

1. Surname.

From nan-tws 陳.

1. Surname.

From nan-hbl 董.

1. Surname.

From .

1. Any of a number of places, including a village in Iran and a village in Afghanistan.