Borrowed fromChinese炕.
kang (pluralkangs)
- Atraditional longplatform ofbrick,clay orconcrete, used forheating in colder parts ofChina and suitable forsleeping on at night.
1958, 29:45 from the start, inThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness[1],→OCLC:Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's akang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is akang for?
A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.
You mean togther?
Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.
- A large Chinesewaterjar.
kang (pluralkangs)
- (informal)Clipping ofkangaroo.
Onlinealias of an XDA-Developers.com user whoappropriated the work of other users.
kang (third-person singular simple presentkangs,present participlekanging,simple past and past participlekanged)
- (Android programming, slang) Toappropriate someone else's work.
FromJapanese癌(gan).
kang
- cancer
FromProto-Bahnaric*kaːŋ. Cognate withJehkaːŋ ("jaw"),Cuakaːk ("chin"),Aremkæːŋʔ ("mouth"). Possibly related to the word reconstructed asProto-Mon-Khmer*ʔaaŋ(“to open”) by Shorto (2006).
kang
- (anatomy)chin
kang (Basahan spellingᜃᜅ᜔)
- Alternative form ofkan
FromProto-Austronesian*ka(“personal oblique marker”).[1]
kang (Badlit spellingᜃᜅ᜔)
- Used to markoblique cases of personal nouns
Parakang Tatay kining kamisina.- This shirt isfor Dad.
- Used to markpossession by a person
- Synonym:ni
- Possessive constructions withkang put the possessor before the object possessed, connected by the linkernga. This is in contrast to whenni is used, where the possessor follows the object possessed and the linker is not needed.
- kang Juan nga balay ―Juan's house
- balayni Juan ―Juan's house
- ^Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ka₃”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
- IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ/[ˈkɐŋ]
- Rhymes:-aŋ
- Syllabification:kang
Apocopic form ofkangko.
kang (Hanunoo spellingᜣᜥ᜴)
- my; ofme; byme
- Synonym:kangko
- kang manok ―my bird
- kang ibog ―my desire
Hanunoo personal pronouns
kang (Hanunoo spellingᜣᜥ᜴)
- whenI…
- kang ati sa Caguray… ―(once)when I was on the Caguray (River)…
- Used when telling narrations.
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page140
kang
- Clipping ofingkang.
kang
- Clipping ofingkang.
Borrowed fromBurmeseကင်း(kang:).
kang
- customs
- Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, inKyoto University Linguistic Research[2], volume35,→DOI,→ISSN, pages91–128
Contraction ofka +ing.
kang
- used to markoblique cases of personal nouns
Bulaklakkang inda.- Flowersfor mom.
IPA(key): [kə̀ŋ̀]
kang
- to becold
- Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, inIndiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures[3], volume 3, number 1
Variant ofkakak.
kang
- oldersister
- oldersibling (rare)
- olderbrother (rare)
kang
- Nonstandard spelling ofkāng.
- Nonstandard spelling ofkáng.
- Nonstandard spelling ofkǎng.
- Nonstandard spelling ofkàng.
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
kang (progressivekangkangkang)
- (transitive, intransitive) toeat
Borrowed fromHokkien摃 /𫼱(kàng).
kang (Baybayin spellingᜃᜅ᜔)(mahjong)
- kong(aset offouridenticaltiles)
- “kang”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, inPacific Linguistics, volume B, number71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University,page145
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948)Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications,page29
