gangan

From Yoruba gángan.

gangan (plural gangans)

1. (music) A talking drum of West Africa.

• Hyphenation: ga‧ngan

gangan

1. (chiefly Southern Leyte) wild hops (Flemingia strobilifera)

Imitative of its call.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.ɡɑ̃/

gangan m (plural gangans)

1. (Antilles) mangrove cuckoo (Coccyzus minor)

   Synonym: coulicou manioc

gangan

1. definite nominative singular of ganga

• gongan, gancgan

From Proto-West Germanic *gangan. Cognate with Old Frisian ganga, Old Saxon gangan, Old Dutch *gangan, Old High German gangan, Old Norse ganga, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑn.ɡɑn/, [ˈɡɑŋ.ɡɑn]

gangan

1. to go, walk
2. to turn out

The past tense forms of this word were only used in poetry. In prose the past tense of gān was used.

• Middle English: gangen, gongen
  • English: gang
  • Scots: gang

From Proto-West Germanic *gangan.

gangan

1. to go, walk

• Middle High German: gangen
  • Swabian: ganga
  • ⇒ Central Franconian: jeng, jejange; jank (suppletive past forms and imperative of john)
  • ⇒ German: ging, gegangen (suppletive past forms of gehen)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

From Proto-West Germanic *gangan.

gangan

1. to go

• Middle Low German: gangen

From Kongo nganga (spiritual Priest).

gangan

1. magician

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Of West African origin;^[1] possibly a reduplication of Efik and Ibibio n̄kam (“my grandmother”).^[2] Compare Skepi Creole Dutch gãgã (“grandmother”), Berbice Creole Dutch gaŋgaŋ (“grandmother”), Negerhollands ganggang (“grandmother”), Guianese Creole gangan (“elderly person; ancestor”), Antillean Creole gangan (“grandmother”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋaŋ/, /ˈɡaŋan/, [ˈɡa̠ŋã̠ŋ], [ˈɡɑ̟ŋɑ̟ŋ]

gangan

1. (informal) old woman, granny
   • c. 1950, Albert Helman, “Kot'singi [Tale-interrupting song]”, in Adyosi / Afscheid‎^[2], Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, published 1994, page 62:

     So yu na mi brada èn mi na yu mati. / A srefi mama gi un a srefsrefi ati; / un teki bobi fu a srefi gangan, / f' wan poti mofina-mama, – fu Sranan!

     So, you are my brother and I am your friend. / The same mother gave us the very same heart / we took the breast of the same old woman / of a poor wetnurse, – of Suriname!

   • 1991, Michaël Slory, “Li tsi-cheng”, in Ik zal zingen om de zon te laten opkomen [I will sing to make the sun rise]‎^[3], Amsterdam: Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer, →ISBN, page 130:

     Den gangan sa feni rostu / nanga bro, teleki den dede.

     The old women will find rest / and relief, until they die.

   • 1991, Orlando Emanuels, “Boyo [Cassava cake]”, in Roy Mac Donald, editor, Mi na koniman Anansi. 20 Surinaamse kinderliedjes van het Srio kinderkoor [I'm the cunning Anansi. Twenty Surinamese children's songs of the Srio children's choir]‎^[4], [Paramaribo]: Pikin Fowru Productions, →ISBN, page 24:

     Wan krioro f'Bakrakondre / Ben kon luku en gangan / Da'a granmisi aks a boy f'en / Sort'stimofo a lostu f'nyan

     A Creole from the Netherlands / Came to see his granny / Then the old lady asked her boy / What kind of food he'd like to eat

gangan

1. old-fashioned

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /ɡã́.ɡã̄/

gángan

1. (music) A common type of talking drum and a subfamily of drums in the dùndún family of drums