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brang

/ˈbɹæŋ/US/ˈbɹeɪ̯ŋ/

brang is the simple past of bring.

Meaning of bring

Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past brought or (colloquial, dialectal) brang, past participle brought or (colloquial, dialectal) brung or (rare, dialectal) broughten)

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
    • Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To supply or contribute.
    • The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
  3. (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
    • Let's bring our differences to an issue.
  4. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
    • It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
  5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
    • It seems so preposterous a thing[…]that they do not easily bring themselves to it.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 11
  6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
    • What does coal bring per ton?

See all 10 meanings of bring

Origin of brang

Possibly inherited from Old English brang (also brong), alternative first and third person singular past indicative of bringan (“to bring”), although no Middle English intermediary is attested, and it may have been formed in more recent times by analogy with sing/sang instead, like its cognate Scots brang (“brought”) was.

Words that rhyme with brang

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Questions about brang

What is brang the simple past of?
Brang is the simple past of bring.
How do you pronounce brang?
Brang is pronounced /ˈbɹæŋ/.

Words near brang in the dictionary

  1. branflake
  2. branflakes
  3. Branfoot
  4. Branfoots
  5. Branford
  6. brang
  7. Brangelina
  8. brangle
  9. brangled
  10. branglement
  11. brangler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brang (page history and authors); bring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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