Kim
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology 1
editClipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
Proper noun
editKim (plural Kims)
- A unisex given name
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 1:
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- Kim McCone ― (name of an Irish linguist)
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
- 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.
- 1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16:
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editmale given name
See also
edit- Kim, novel by Rudyard Kipling.
Etymology 2
editAlternative forms
editProper noun
editKim (plural Kims)
- A surname from Korean
- 2020 February 16, Justin McCurry, Nemo Kim, “Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide”, in The Observer[1]:
- Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.
Translations
editKorean surname
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Danish
editEtymology
editShort form of Joakim.
Proper noun
editKim
- a male given name from Hebrew
References
edit- [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editKim f or m
- a unisex given name from English
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editKim
- a male given name
Declension
editInflection of Kim (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Kim | Kimit | |
genitive | Kimin | Kimien | |
partitive | Kimiä | Kimejä | |
illative | Kimiin | Kimeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kim | Kimit | |
accusative | nom. | Kim | Kimit |
gen. | Kimin | ||
genitive | Kimin | Kimien | |
partitive | Kimiä | Kimejä | |
inessive | Kimissä | Kimeissä | |
elative | Kimistä | Kimeistä | |
illative | Kimiin | Kimeihin | |
adessive | Kimillä | Kimeillä | |
ablative | Kimiltä | Kimeiltä | |
allative | Kimille | Kimeille | |
essive | Kiminä | Kimeinä | |
translative | Kimiksi | Kimeiksi | |
abessive | Kimittä | Kimeittä | |
instructive | — | Kimein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Kim is the 130th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,902 male individuals (and as a middle name to 639 more), and also is the 1099th (tied with 1 other name) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 133 female individuals (and as a middle name to 168 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editKim
- a diminutive of the male given name Joachim, from Hebrew
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Norwegian
editEtymology
editShort form of Joakim.
Proper noun
editKim
- a male given name from Hebrew
Swedish
editProper noun
editKim c (genitive Kims)
- a male given name from Hebrew, shortened from Joakim
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Vietnamese
editEtymology
editSino-Vietnamese word from 金 (“gold”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit- (historical) the Jin dynasty (1115–1234 C.E.)
- a surname from Chinese
- a female given name from Chinese
Derived terms
editDerived terms
See also
editDynasties (朝代) in Chinese history | |||||
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Name | Time period | Divisions | |||
Xia 夏 (nhà Hạ) |
2070 – 1600 BCE | ||||
Shang 商 (nhà Thương) 殷 (nhà Ân) |
1600 – 1046 BCE | ||||
Zhou 周 (nhà Chu) |
1046 – 256 BCE | Western Zhou 西周 (nhà Tây Chu) |
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Eastern Zhou 東周 (nhà Đông Chu) |
Spring and Autumn period 春秋 | ||||
Warring States period 戰國 | |||||
Qin 秦 (nhà Tần) |
221 – 206 BCE | ||||
Han 漢 (nhà Hán) |
206 BCE – 220 C.E. | Western Han 西漢 (nhà Tây Hán) | |||
Xin 新 (nhà Tân) | |||||
Eastern Han 東漢 (nhà Đông Hán) | |||||
Three Kingdoms 三國 |
220 – 280 C.E. | Wei 魏 | |||
Shu Han 蜀漢 | |||||
Wu 吳 | |||||
Jin 晉 (nhà Tấn) |
266 – 420 C.E. | Western Jin 西晉 (nhà Tây Tấn) | |||
Eastern Jin 東晉 (nhà Đông Tấn) | |||||
Southern and Northern dynasties 南北朝 (~ triều) |
420 – 589 C.E. | Northern dynasties 北朝 (~ triều) |
Northern Wei 北魏 (nhà Bắc Nguỵ) | ||
Western Wei 西魏 (nhà Tây Nguỵ) | |||||
Eastern Wei 東魏 (nhà Đông Nguỵ) | |||||
Northern Zhou 北周 (nhà Bắc Chu) | |||||
Northern Qi 北齊 (nhà Bắc Tề) | |||||
Southern dynasties 南朝 (~ triều) |
Liu Song 劉宋 (nhà Lưu Tống) | ||||
Southern Qi 南齊 (nhà Nam Tề) | |||||
Liang 梁 (nhà Lương) | |||||
Chen 陳 (nhà Trần) | |||||
Sui 隋 (nhà Tuỳ) |
581 – 618 C.E. | ||||
Tang 唐 (nhà Đường) |
618 – 907 C.E. | ||||
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五代十國 |
907 – 960 C.E. | ||||
Liao 遼 (nhà Liêu) |
907 – 1125 C.E. | ||||
Song 宋 (nhà Tống) |
960 – 1279 C.E. | Northern Song 北宋 (nhà Bắc Tống) | |||
Southern Song 南宋 (nhà Nam Tống) | |||||
Western Xia 西夏 (nhà Tây Hạ) |
1038 – 1227 C.E. | ||||
Jin 金 (nhà Kim) |
1115 – 1234 C.E. | ||||
Western Liao 西遼 (nhà Tây Liêu) |
1124 – 1218 C.E. | ||||
Yuan 元 (nhà Nguyên) |
1271 – 1368 C.E. | ||||
Ming 明 (nhà Minh) |
1368 – 1644 C.E. | ||||
Qing 清 (nhà Thanh) |
1636 – 1912 C.E. |
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