farang

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Thai ฝรั่ง (fà-ràng, “Westerner”). Doublet of Frank, frank, franc, and firangi. === Noun === farang (plural farangs) (Thailand) A foreigner in Thailand who is of Western ancestry; one who comes to Thailand from a Western country. 2017 March 30, "Farang jumps to his death at Suvarnabhumi Airport", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited: Farang jumps to his death at Suvarnabhumi Airport: A foreign man is believed to have committed suicide when he fell from the fourth floor of Suvarnabhumi Airport this morning. 2017 April 20, "Crazy farang tied up by Pattaya locals and police after he jumped from roof to roof", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited: Crazy farang tied up by Pattaya locals and police after he jumped from roof to roof: A foreign man was tied up by locals and police Wednesday morning... At midnight, locals alerted the police after the farang went on a rampage and destroyed other people's property... Witnesses said they had not seen the man before. The farang continued to let out curses as he was moved onto the police's truck... 2017 May 9, "Farang couple has sex on Samui beach for audience of stray dogs", Coconuts Bangkok, Coconuts Media Limited: Farang couple has sex on Samui beach for audience of stray dogs: A local on Koh Samui shared a video of a couple he called "farang scums" having sex on the beach for an audience of confused stray dogs. ==== Translations ==== === See also === === Anagrams === franga == Norwegian Bokmål == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfɑːɾɑŋ] === Noun === farang an epidemic == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) First attested in 1758 by Søren Fermann in Tinn dialect. Later also attested by Søren Richart Hagerup (probably Surnadal dialect, ca. 1770) and Jacob Nicolai Wilse (Spydeberg dialect, 1780), but Wilse gives definition "a sudden sickness". === Noun === farang m (definite singular farangen, indefinite plural farangar, definite plural farangane) an epidemy Synonyms: epidemi, sott (colloquial) clipping of magefarang (“norovirus”) Synonyms: norovirus, omgangssjuke === Further reading === “farang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. “farang” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring Oddvar Nes (1994). Ei ordsamling frå Tinn, published in Helsing til Lars Vassenden. Jan Ragnar Hagland (1986), Trønderord frå 1700-talet : Ordsamling frå Surnadal, page 30 Jacob Nicolai Wilse (1780), Norſk Ordbog eller Samling af norſke Ord, i ſær de ſom bruges i Egnen af Spydeberg Jon Peder Vestad (2002), Gausdalsmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 41 Martin Foss (2004), På me'dalsmål : ord, uttrykk og vendingar på me'dalsmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 17 Hildegunn Aamo (2004), Ord og uttrykk fra Os (in Norwegian), page 30