Noun: farang
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Farangar skal han lata hanga atti deg, til han hev rudt deg ut or landet som du kjem inn og skal leggja under deg (Epidemys will he let hang after you, untill he gets cleansed you from the land you're coming to and will occupy (The fifth book of Moses, 28:21)) [1969, Det norske bibelselkap, Bibelen:]
Nouns inflected like farang
bernhardin,
billettautomat,
røykdukkar,
krøpling,
symbal,
synops,
synsar,
syklon,
syklus,
swazilendar,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
serbar,
server,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
setjar,
settar,
sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Most likely from fara + -ang. The suffix -ang is a rare, unproductive suffix found in some other terms like berang (“gait”) and årang (“cohort”). Probably related to Icelandic farangur (“luggage”)
2. First attested in 1758 by Søren Fermann in Tinnmål dialect. Later also attested by Søren Richart Hagerup (probably in Surnadal dialect, ca. 1770) and Jacob Nicolai Wilse (Spydeberg dialect, 1780). Wilse gives definition "a sudden sickness" (probably same as bråmein). See: Icelandic Nouns '
farangur'.
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