bangs

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• UK: /bæŋ(ɡ)z/
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Variant of Banks.

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

Shortened from Bang's disease.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: balluke — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Arabic: قُصَّة (quṣṣa) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Arabic: طُرَّة (ṭurra) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Arabic: غُرَّة (ḡurra) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Arabic: قذلة (giḏla) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Arabic: قدلة (gidla) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Iraqi Arabic: قِذْلَة (giḏla) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Aramaic: ܡܣܟܝܢܝܬܐ — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Azerbaijani: birçək — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Bulgarian: бретон (breton) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Bulgarian: перчем (perčem) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Catalan: serrell — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Chinese Mandarin: 劉海 /刘海 (liúhǎi) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Chinese Mandarin: 劉海兒 /刘海儿 (liúhǎir) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Czech: ofina — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Danish: pandehår — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Dutch: pony — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Dutch: froefroe — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Esperanto: franĝo — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Esperanto: fruntharoj — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Estonian: tukk — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Faroese: fruntur — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Finnish: otsatukka — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• French: frange — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Galician: guedelleira — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Galician: liceira — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Galician: zarrallas — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Galician: cerras — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Galician: milfeira — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Georgian: შუბლზე შეჭრილი თმა (šublze šeč̣rili tma) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• German: Pony — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Greek: αφέλειες (aféleies) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Greek: αφέλεια (aféleia) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Greek: φράντζα (frántza) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Hebrew: פוני (póni) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Hungarian: frufru — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Icelandic: toppur — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Icelandic: ennistoppur — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Indonesian: poni — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Irish: frainse — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Irish: glib — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Italian: frangia — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Italian: frangetta — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Japanese: 前髪 — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Korean: 앞머리 (ammeori) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Central Kurdish: پەرچەم (perçem) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Northern Kurdish: pirç — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Northern Kurdish: perçem — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Northern Kurdish: kakul — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Latvian: čolka — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Latvian: ponijs — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Macedonian: шишка (šiška) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Māori: tope — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Māori: puahau — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Norwegian: pannelugg — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Norwegian: lugg — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Persian: کاکل (kâkol) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Polish: grzywka — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Portuguese: franja — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Romanian: breton — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Russian: чёлка (čólka) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Russian: чу́бчик (čúbčik) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Russian: чуб (čub) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Serbo-Croatian: šiške — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: flequillo — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: capul — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: cerquillo — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: chasquilla — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: china — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: fleco — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: pava — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: perrera — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: pollina — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Spanish: flueco (desus.) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Swedish: lugg — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Thai: หน้าม้า (nâa-máa) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Turkish: kâkül — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Turkish: perçem — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Ukrainian: гри́вка (hrývka) — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Welsh: eddi — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Welsh: rhidens — hair that hangs down over the forehead
• Yiddish: גריווקע (grivke) — hair that hangs down over the forehead