hong
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Etymology 1Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
VerbEdit
hong
- (obsolete) past tense of hang
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
Etymology 2Edit
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”)
NounEdit
hong (plural hongs)
- A foreign trading company in China.
- 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.
- 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea
AnagramsEdit
IrishEdit
NounEdit
hong m
- h-prothesized form of ong
VerbEdit
hong
- h-prothesized form of ong
LudianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.
NounEdit
hong
- forest pine
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
hong
- Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hòng.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
PalauanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hong
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *honka.
NounEdit
hong
- forest pine
VietnameseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare Chinese 烘, Thai แห้ง (hɛ̂ɛng).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
ZhuangEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /hoːŋ˨˦/
- Tone numbers: hong1
- Hyphenation: hong
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
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)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
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.
NounEdit
hong (1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)
ZouEdit
VerbEdit
hong