Fang

Verb

 * 1)  To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
 * 2)  To take; receive with assent; accept.
 * 3)  To receive with hospitality; welcome.
 * 4)  To receive.
 * 5)  To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.

Noun

 * 1) A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh or (in snakes) for injecting venom.

Verb

 * 1)  to strike or attack with the fangs

Thesaurus
baby tooth, beesting, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, claws, clutches, cog, comb, crag, crown, cuspid, cutter, dart, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, digits, dogtooth, eyetooth, fangs, fingernails, fingers, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, hands, harrow, hooks, incisor, jag, jaws, mandibles, maxillae, meathooks, milk tooth, mitts, molar, nails, nippers, palm, peak, pecten, peg, permanent tooth, pincers, pivot tooth, pounces, premolar, projection, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, scrivello, snag, snaggle, snaggletooth, snakebite, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, sting, stinger, talons, tang, teeth, tooth, tush, tusk, unguals, ungulae, wisdom tooth

Etymology 1
From fangen:, from  fon:, and  fanga:, both from, from. Cognate with fange:,  vangen:,  fangen:,  fange:.

Etymology 2
, from fang: 'prey, booty, catch', from  (compare German Fang: 'booty, capture'), from  (compare Old English fon:, Old Saxon/Old High German fāhan:), from  'to fasten' (compare Latin pangere: 'to solidify, drive in', Albanian mpij: 'to benumb, stiffen', Ancient Greek pḗgnymi: 'to stiffen, firm up', Sanskrit pāśáyati: '(s)he binds').

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ullal
 * Chinese: 尖牙 (jiān yá)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hugtand
 * Dutch: giftand
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Fangzahn
 * Italian: dente, dente canino, dente di cane


 * Japanese: 牙 (きば, kiba)
 * Kazakh: азу
 * Latvian: ilknis
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chonge
 * Vietnamese: răng nanh
 * West Frisian: slachtosk

Noun

 * 1) mud

Verb



 * Catch.
 * Capture.
 * Fang mig!
 * Catch me!

Pinyin syllable
fang



Noun

 * 1) vulture