kang

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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Chinese .

Alternative forms

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Noun

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kang (plural kangs)

  1. 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.
  2. A large Chinese water jar.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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kang (plural kangs)

  1. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.

Etymology 3

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Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

Verb

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kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)

  1. (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

Anagrams

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Bahnar

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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kang 

  1. (anatomy) chin

Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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Preposition

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kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of kan

Cebuano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *ka (personal oblique marker).[1]

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

  1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
    Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.
    This shirt is for Dad.
  2. Used to mark possession by a person
    Synonym: ni

Usage notes

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  • 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 balayJuan's house
    balay ni JuanJuan's house

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ka₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Hanunoo

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkɐŋ]
  • Rhymes: -aŋ
  • Syllabification: kang

Etymology 1

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Apocopic form of kangko.

Determiner

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kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

  1. my; of me; by me
    Synonym: kangko
    kang manokmy bird
    kang ibogmy desire
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Etymology 2

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Conjunction

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kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

  1. when I
    kang ati sa Caguray…(once) when I was on the Caguray (River)…
Usage notes
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  • Used when telling narrations.

Further reading

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  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 140

Javanese

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Determiner

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kang

  1. Clipping of ingkang.

Pronoun

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kang

  1. Clipping of ingkang.

Jingpho

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

Noun

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kang

  1. customs

References

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  • Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[2], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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Contraction of ka +‎ ing.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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kang

  1. used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
    Bulaklak kang inda.
    Flowers for mom.

Malay

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Etymology

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Variant of kakak.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kang

  1. older sister
  2. older sibling (rare)
  3. older brother (rare)

Synonyms

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Mandarin

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Romanization

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kang

  1. Nonstandard spelling of kāng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of káng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of kǎng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of kàng.

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Verb

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kang (progressive kangkangkang)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

Derived terms

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References

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien 𫼱 (kàng).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

  1. (mahjong) kong (a set of four identical tiles)

Further reading

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  • 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