English
prang
Originally World War II Royal Air Force slang; probably imitative.
Another origin of prang
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*per-reconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEपर‘other, different (than)’
- Palimodernpara‘other, another’
- Khmermodernប្រាង្គpraang‘tower’
- Englishtodayprang
Today it means
noun An aeroplane crash.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “prang”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / prang