gangue

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gangue. Doublet of gang.

Pronunciation

• enPR: găng, IPA^(key): /ɡæŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æŋ
• Homophone: gang

Noun

gangue (countable and uncountable, plural gangues)

1. (mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
   • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 147:

     Thus the percentage recovery of metal from the ore was much higher than in the primitive process where the semi-vitrified gangue and half-smelted ore are typically rich in prills of copper and copper minerals.

Synonyms

• veinstone

Derived terms

• endogangue
• exogangue

Translations

earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore

• Arabic: غَثّ m (ḡaṯṯ), شَوْب m (šawb), شَوَائِبُ الرِّكَاز m (šawāʔibu r-rikāz)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脈石 / 脉石 (mak⁶ sek⁶)

  Mandarin: 脈石 / 脉石 (zh) (màishí)

• Esperanto: gango
• Finnish: sivukivi (fi)
• French: gangue (fr) f
• German: Gang (de) m, Gangart (de) f, Gangerz n
• Italian: ganga (it) f
• Japanese: 脈石 (ja) (みゃくせき, myakuseki)
• Korean: 맥석 (ko) (maekseok)
• Portuguese: ganga (pt) f
• Russian: пуста́я поро́да f (pustája poróda)
• Spanish: ganga (es) f, blancarte m

Further reading

• gangue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• extractive metallurgy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

A borrowing from German Gang (“way, path, trail, track, course, line, duct”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃ɡ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gangue f (plural gangues)

1. (geology, mining) gangue

Further reading

• “gangue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• gang (dated)

Etymology

From English gang.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.ɡɨ/

• Hyphenation: gan‧gue

Noun

gangue (Portugal) m or (Brazil) f (plural gangues)

1. gang; street gang (criminal group, especially one that practices petty crime)

   Synonyms: quadrilha, bando, (well organised) facção

2. gang (a group of friends who do things together regularly, especially mischievous children)

   Synonyms: turma, patota

Derived terms

• ganguezinha (diminutive) (Brazil)

Related terms

• gângster

Further reading

• “gangue”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024