kang
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Noun
kang (plural kangs)
- A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
- 1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness[1], →OCLC:
- Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is a kang 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 Chinese water jar.
Etymology 2
Noun
kang (plural kangs)
Etymology 3
Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.
Verb
kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)
- (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.
Anagrams
Bahnar
Etymology
From Proto-Bahnaric *kaːŋ. Cognate with Jeh kaːŋ ("jaw"), Cua kaːk ("chin"), Arem kæːŋʔ ("mouth"). Possibly related to the word reconstructed as Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaaŋ (“to open”) by Shorto (2006).
Pronunciation
Noun
kang
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
Preposition
kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
- Alternative form of kan
Cebuano
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).[1]
Pronunciation
Preposition
kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
- Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
- Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.
- This shirt is for Dad.
- Used to mark possession by a person
- Synonym: ni
Usage notes
- Possessive constructions with kang put the possessor before the object possessed, connected by the linker nga. This is in contrast to when ni is used, where the possessor follows the object possessed and the linker is not needed.
- kang Juan nga balay ― Juan's house
- balay ni Juan ― Juan's house
See also
Direct | Indirect | Oblique | ||||
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Definite | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | |||
Common | Singular | ang | ing†, 'y | sa, sang† | og | sa |
Plural | ang mga | ing mga†, 'y mga |
sa mga, sang mga† |
og mga | sa mga | |
Personal | Singular | si | ni | kang* | ||
Plural | sila ni, silang sa† |
nila ni, nilang na† |
(kan)ila ni*, (kan)ilang* ka† | |||
†Archaic *Indirect personal forms used instead in colloquial speech. |
References
Javanese
Determiner
kang
- Clipping of ingkang.
Pronoun
kang
- Clipping of ingkang.
Jingpho
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).
Noun
kang
References
- Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[2], volume 35, , →ISSN, pages 91–128
Kapampangan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Preposition
kang
- used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
- Bulaklak kang inda.
- Flowers for mom.
Malay
Etymology
Variant of kakak.
Pronunciation
Noun
kang
Synonyms
Mandarin
Romanization
kang
- Nonstandard spelling of kāng.
- Nonstandard spelling of káng.
- Nonstandard spelling of kǎng.
- Nonstandard spelling of kàng.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Mokilese
Verb
kang (progressive kangkangkang)
- (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Derived terms
References
- Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien 摃/𫼱 (kàng).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]
- Rhymes: -aŋ
- Syllabification: kang
Noun
kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
Further reading
- “kang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 145
- 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, page 29
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