prong

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• UK: /pɹɒŋ/
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• General-American: /pɹɔŋ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /pɹɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɒŋ
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From Middle English pronge, perhaps from Middle Low German prange (“stick, restraining device”), from prangen (“to press, pinch”), from Old Saxon *prangan, from Proto-West Germanic *prangan, from Proto-Germanic *pranganą (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)preng- (“to wrap up, constrict”). Akin to Lithuanian spriñgti (“to choke, become choked or obstructed”), Latvian sprañgât (“cord, constrict”), Ancient Greek σπαργανόω (sparganóō, “to swaddle”), σπάργανον (spárganon, “swaddling cloth”). See also prank, prance, prink.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: зъбец (zǎbec) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Catalan: pua — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Czech: hrot — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Danish: spids — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Danish: tand — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Dutch: tand — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Dutch: punt — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Dutch: spits — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Dutch: piek — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Finnish: kärki — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Finnish: piikki — thin, pointed, projecting part
• French: dent — thin, pointed, projecting part
• French: pointe — thin, pointed, projecting part
• French: broche — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Galician: galla — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Galician: puga — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Galician: dente — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Zinke — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Zacke — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Zacken — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Stift — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Ende — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Sprosse — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Krappe — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Stachel — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Dorn — thin, pointed, projecting part
• German: Stab — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Ancient Greek: στόρθυγξ (stórthunx) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Hungarian: fog — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Hungarian: ág — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Icelandic: gaddur — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Irish: beangán — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Italian: punta — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Italian: dente — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Italian: rebbio — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Macedonian: парог (parog) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Macedonian: забец (zabec) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Māori: kātara — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Norwegian Bokmål: tind — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tind — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Polish: szpica — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Polish: grot — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Polish: kolec — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Polish: ząb — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Polish: badyl (of an antler) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Portuguese: ponta — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Portuguese: dente — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Romanian: dinte — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Russian: шпенёк (špenjók) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Russian: зубе́ц (zubéc) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Russian: отро́г (otróg) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Russian: рожо́к (rožók) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Slovak: vetva — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Slovak: výbežok — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Slovak: kolík — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Slovak: hrot — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: diente — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: prolongación — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: punta — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: gajo — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: vástago — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: púa — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Spanish: puya — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Swedish: spets — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Swedish: klo — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Swedish: led — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Swedish: udd — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Tagalog: sanga ng sungay — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Ottoman Turkish: چاتال (çatal) — thin, pointed, projecting part
• Bulgarian: разклонение (razklonenie) — branch
• Danish: gren — branch
• Dutch: arm — branch
• Finnish: haara — branch
• French: bras — branch
• Galician: galla — branch
• German: Zweig — branch
• German: Arm — branch
• Hungarian: ág — branch
• Irish: beangán — branch
• Italian: ramo — branch
• Italian: ramificazione — branch
• Italian: biforcazione — branch
• Macedonian: гранка (granka) — branch
• Portuguese: braço — branch
• Portuguese: ramo — branch
• Romanian: braț — branch
• Russian: ветвь (vetvʹ) — branch
• Slovak: vetva — branch
• Vietnamese: răng — branch
• Vietnamese: ngạnh — branch
• Bulgarian: бода (boda) — to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong
• Bulgarian: пробождам (proboždam) — to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong
• Bulgarian: промушвам (promušvam) — to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong
• German: aufspießen — to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong
• German: spießen — to pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong