kang
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Noun edit
kang (plural kangs)
Etymology 3 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb edit
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.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (humorous) Pronunciation spelling of king.
Anagrams edit
Bahnar edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
kang
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
- Alternative form of kan.
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
- Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
- Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.
- This shirt is for Dad.
Javanese edit
Determiner edit
kang
- Clipping of ingkang.
Pronoun edit
kang
- Clipping of ingkang.
Jingpho edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).
Noun edit
kang
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Kapampangan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
kang
- Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
- Bulaklak kang inda.
- Flowers for mom.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Variant of kakak.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kang
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Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
kang
- Nonstandard spelling of kāng.
- Nonstandard spelling of káng.
- Nonstandard spelling of kǎng.
- Nonstandard spelling of kàng.
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
Verb edit
kang
- (transitive, intransitive) to eat
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 摃/𫼱 (kàng).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)