Turkish pronunciation
 thrôngSynonyms
 assemblage, 
assembly, 
bunch, 
collection, 
concourse, 
congregation, 
crush, 
drove, 
everybody, 
flock, 
gathering, 
horde, 
host, 
jam, 
massPronunciation
 /ˈᴛʜrôɴɢ/ /ˈθrɔːŋ/
Etymology
 [ 'thro[ng] ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Middle English, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwan, *þrangwō (“throng”), *þrangaz (“push, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk(w)- (“to beat, hew, press”). Cognate with Dutch drang (“crowd, urge, push, impulse”), German Drang (“urge, drive, impulse”), Danish trang (“urge”), Norwegian trong (“need”), Icelandic þröng (“narrow, tightly pressed, crowd, throng”). More at thring.