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hong

See also: hōng, hóng, hőng, hǒng, hòng, hông, hồng, Hong, Høng, and Hồng

English

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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hong

  1. (obsolete) past of hang

Etymology 2

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From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Could someone with knowledge of Cantonese verify this etymology? Is it a shortening of 洋行”)

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Noun

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hong (plural hongs)

  1. A foreign trading company in China.
    • 1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11:
      "You and your son are about to visit China," said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.
    • 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea:
      In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.
    • 1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist‎[1], →ISSN:
      Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.

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etymologicaly unrelated terms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien 鳳凰／凤凰 (hōng-hông, “fenghuang”).

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hong (plural hong-hong)

  1. (mythology) fenghuang: a mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies
  2. (mythology) phoenix: a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes

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Irish

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Noun

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hong m

  1. h-prothesized form of ong

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hong

  1. h-prothesized form of ong

Ludian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hong

  1. forest pine

Declension

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Makasar

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Etymology

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From Dutch gom (“gum; eraser”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhoŋ/, [ˈhõŋ]
  • Hyphenation: hong

Noun

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hong (Lontara spelling ᨖᨚ)

  1. an eraser

Compounds

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Further reading

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  • Cense, A. A. (1979) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Mandarin

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Romanization

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hong

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

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.

Palauan

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Etymology

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From Japanese 本 (hon).

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hong

  1. book

References

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  • hong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • hong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • hong in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 91.

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *honka.

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Noun

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hong

  1. old or dead forest pine

Declension

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Inflection of hong (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing. hong
genitive sing. hongan
partitive sing. hongad
partitive plur. hongid
singular plural
nominative hong hongad
accusative hongan hongad
genitive hongan hongiden
partitive hongad hongid
essive-instructive hongan hongin
translative hongaks hongikš
inessive hongas hongiš
elative hongaspäi hongišpäi
illative hongaha hongihe
adessive hongal hongil
ablative hongalpäi hongilpäi
allative hongale hongile
abessive hongata hongita
comitative honganke hongidenke
prolative hongadme hongidme
approximative I honganno hongidenno
approximative II hongannoks hongidennoks
egressive hongannopäi hongidennopäi
terminative I hongahasai hongihesai
terminative II hongalesai hongilesai
terminative III hongassai —
additive I hongahapäi hongihepäi
additive II hongalepäi hongilepäi

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Compare Chinese 烘 (hōng), Thai แห้ง (hɛ̂ɛng).

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hong • (𣈞, 𤈤)

  1. to dry (in the wind, sun, or near the fire)

Zhuang

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Etymology 1

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From Chinese 工 (OC *koːŋ).

Noun

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hong (Sawndip forms 𰏊 or ⿱功大 or 慌 or ⿰工空 or ⿱红工 or 啌 or 空 or 康 or 𭘎 or ⿱䒑巷 or 控, 1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)

  1. work; labor
    Synonym: goeng
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Tai *χɔːŋᴬ (“thing”). Cognate with Thai ของ (kɔ̌ɔng), Northern Thai ᨡᩬᨦ, Lao ຂອງ (khǭng), Lü ᦃᦸᧂ (ẋoang), Tai Dam ꪄꪮꪉ, Shan ၶွင် (khǎung), Zuojiang Zhuang kong.

Noun

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hong (1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)

  1. (dialectal) thing; object
    Synonyms: doenghyiengh, doxgaiq, (dialectal) swhyiengh

Zou

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Verb

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hong

  1. open

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