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jang

jang noun: fermented ingredients used as the base for many Korean dishes and sauces.

Noun

jang (uncountable)

  1. Fermented ingredients used as the base for many Korean dishes and sauces.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jang

Jang (countable and uncountable, plural Jangs)

  1. (countable) A surname.
  2. An island of the Marshall Islands in Maloelap Atoll, Ratak Chain, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Jang

Jang (plural Jangs)

  1. A surname from Korean.
    1. A Korean surname from Chinese.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Jang

Jang

  1. A village in Eastern Rukum district, Lumbini, Nepal.

jang meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Kannada

jang in Hindi

जांग

jang in Marathi

जांग

jang in Urdu

جانگ

jang in Kannada

ಜಾಂಗ್
More languagesFewer languages
jang in Gujarati
જાંગ
jang in Odia
ଜାଙ୍ଗ୍
jang in Nepali
जाङ

Forms of jang

pluralJangs
alternative formChang
alternative formZhang
alternative formZang
alternative formYang
alternative formJahng
alternative formJean

Origin of jang

From Korean Revised Romanization of Korean 장 (jang); from 張, 章, 莊, 蔣; from Chinese.

From Nepali जाङ (jāṅ).

Phrases with jang

Questions about jang

What does jang mean?
Jang means fermented ingredients used as the base for many Korean dishes and sauces.
What is jang in Hindi?
Jang in Hindi is जांग. See Jang meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jang?
Jang can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near jang in the dictionary

  1. Janeway
  2. Janeways
  3. Janey
  4. Janey Mack
  5. Janeys
  6. jang
  7. jangada
  8. jangadas
  9. jangadeiro
  10. jangadeiros
  11. jangajji

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jang (page history and authors); Jang (page history and authors); jang (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jang (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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