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bang
bang (the sound of a sudden loud impact, like a slam, gunshot, or explosion) /ˈbaŋɡ/
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Also: bam, boom, a loud bang/knock (used informally as a noun)
Example sentences
Bang! Ușa s-a trântit brusc.
Bang! The door slammed shut suddenly.
Balonul a făcut bang și s-a spart.
The balloon went bang and popped.
Copiii se jucau și strigau: bang, bang, ești mort!
The kids were playing and shouting: bang, bang, you're dead!
S-a auzit un bang puternic venind din pivniță.
A loud bang was heard coming from the basement.
Regizorul a folosit un efect sonor de tip bang pentru fiecare explozie.
The director used a bang-type sound effect for every explosion.
A intrat în ședință cu un bang, trântind ușa și anunțând vestea.
He walked into the meeting with a bang, slamming the door and announcing the news.
Word family
bang-bangreduplicated form imitating rapid gunfire or repeated blows
pocnative Romanian onomatopoeia for a sharp pop/snap sound
bubuita loud boom or bang (native word, used more formally)
trosconomatopoeia for a crack or bang
Etymology
Bang is a direct loan from English, taken over largely unchanged in spelling and sound. In English it is itself an echoic word, formed to imitate the sudden noise of a blow, shot, or explosion, not descended through a long chain of inherited vocabulary. Romanian picked it up through comics, dubbed cartoons, film subtitles, and casual speech, so its history in Romanian is recent and informal rather than inherited from Latin. It has not been standardized into formal dictionaries as a headword.
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