kilogram

See also: kilo-gram

English

Alternative forms

• chiliogramme, chilogramme (both obsolete)
• kilogramme (dated)

Etymology

From French kilogramme. By surface analysis, kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪləɡɹæm/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: kil‧o‧gram

Noun

kilogram (plural kilograms)

1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10^-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m²⋅s⁻¹. Symbol: kg
2. (proscribed) The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

Usage notes

• (proscribed, unit of weight): The use of the kilogram as a unit of weight is somewhat imprecise, as weight can change while mass remains constant. The weight of a one-kilogram mass will depend on its location because the pull of gravity varies from one place to another. It is therefore frequently proscribed but is nonetheless in wide use (e.g., a person's weight in kilograms). (The same imprecision and proscription also occur with many other words pertaining to weight and mass, such as the verb weigh.)
• Whilst one kilogram equals 1,000 grams, it is the kilogram and not the gram that is the base unit.

Synonyms

• kilo
• kg

Derived terms

• kilogram calorie
• kilogram-force
• kilogram-meter
• kilogram-metre
• meter-kilogram-second
• metre-kilogram-second

 

Translations

unit of mass equal to 1000 grams

• Afrikaans: kilogram
• Albanian: kilogram (sq) m
• Amharic: ኪሎግራም (kilogram)
• Arabic: كِيلوغْرَام m, كِيلوجْرَام m (kīlōgrām)

  Egyptian Arabic: كيلوجرام m (kilogrām)

• Armenian: կիլոգրամ (hy) (kilogram), (colloquial) կիլո (hy) (kilo)
• Asturian: quilogramu m, kilogramu m
• Azerbaijani: kiloqram
• Bashkir: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Belarusian: кілагра́м m (kilahrám), кілягра́м m (kiljahrám)
• Bengali: কিলো (kilō), কিলোগ্রাম (bn) (kilōgram)
• Bulgarian: килогра́м (bg) m (kilográm)
• Burmese: ကီလိုဂရမ် (my) (kiluiga.ram)
• Carpathian Rusyn: килогра́м m (kylohrám)
• Catalan: quilogram (ca) m
• Chamicuro: kilo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公斤 (yue) (gung¹ gan¹), 千克 (cin¹ hak¹)

  Dungan: гунҗин (gunžin), кило (kilo), килограмм (kilogramm)

  Hakka: 公斤 (kûng-kîn), 奇勞／奇劳 (ki-ló)

  Hokkien: 公斤 (zh-min-nan) (kong-kin)

  Mandarin: 公斤 (zh) (gōngjīn), 千克 (zh) (qiān kè)

• Czech: kilogram (cs) m
• Danish: kilogram (da) n
• Dutch: kilogram (nl) m
• Esperanto: kilogramo
• Estonian: kilogramm, kilo (et)
• Faroese: kilogramm n
• Finnish: kilogramma (fi)
• French: kilogramme (fr) m, kilo (fr) m
• Galician: quilogramo (gl) m
• Georgian: კილოგრამი (ḳilogrami)
• German: Kilogramm (de) n
• Greek: χιλιόγραμμο (el) n (chiliógrammo), κιλό (el) n (kiló),
• Gujarati: કિલોગ્રામ (kilogrām)
• Hebrew: קִילוֹגְרָם (he) m (kilogram)
• Hindi: किलो m (kilo), किलोग्राम m (kilogrām)
• Hungarian: kilogramm (hu)
• Icelandic: kílógramm (is)
• Indonesian: kilogram (id)
• Ingrian: kilogramma
• Irish: cileagram m
• Italian: chilogrammo (it) m, chilo (it) m
• Japanese: キログラム (ja) (kiroguramu), キロ (ja) (kiro)
• Jarai: kĭ
• Kannada: ಕಿಲೋಗ್ರಾಮ್ (kilōgrām)
• Kazakh: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Khmer: គីឡូក្រាម (km) (kiiloukraam)
• Korean: 킬로그램 (ko) (killogeuraem), 키로 (ko) (kiro), 킬로 (ko) (killo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kîlo (ku), kîlogram (ku)

• Kyrgyz: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Lao: ກິໂລກຣາມ (ki lōk rām), ກິໂລ (lo) (ki lō), ກິ​ໂລ​ກາມ (ki lō kām)
• Latin: kilogramma n, chiliogramma (la) n
• Latvian: kilograms m, kilo m
• Lithuanian: kilogramas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦂᦲᦷᦟᦂᧄ (k̇iilok̇am)
• Macedonian: килограм m (kilogram)
• Malagasy: kilaograma (mg)
• Malay: kilogram (ms)
• Malayalam: കിലോഗ്രാം (kilōgrāṁ)
• Maltese: kilogramm m
• Maori: kirokaramu, manokaramu
• Marathi: किलोग्रॅम (kilogrĕm)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: килограмм (mn) (kilogramm)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kilogram (no)

• Ottoman Turkish: اوقه (oqqa)
• Pashto: کېلو m (kiló, keló), کيلوګرام m
• Persian: کیلوگرم (fa) (kilogram)
• Polish: kilogram (pl) m, kilo (pl) n
• Portuguese: quilograma (pt) m, kilograma f
• Romanian: kilogram (ro) n
• Russian: килогра́мм (ru) m (kilográmm), кило́ (ru) n (kiló)
• Scottish Gaelic: cileagram m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ки̏лограм m

  Roman: kȉlogram (sh) m

• Shan: ၵိလူဝ်ၷြမ် (kǐ lǒ grǎm)
• Sinhalese: කිලෝග්‍රෑම් (kilōgrǣm)
• Slovak: kilogram m
• Slovene: kilogram (sl)
• Sotho: kilogeramo
• Spanish: kilogramo (es) m, quilogramo (es) m
• Swahili: kilo (sw)
• Swedish: kilogram (sv), kilo (sv)
• Tagalog: libogramo, kilogramo
• Tajik: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Tamil: கிலோகிராம் (ta) (kilōkirām)
• Tatar: килограм (kiloğram)
• Telugu: కిలోగ్రాము (kilōgrāmu)
• Thai: กิโลกรัม (th) (gì-loo-gram), กิโล (th) (gì-loo), โล (th) (loo)
• Tibetan: ཀི་ལོ (ki lo), སྤྱི་རྒྱ (spyi rgya), སྤྱིའི་རྒྱ་མ (spyi'i rgya ma)
• Turkish: kilogram (tr), kilo (tr); okka (tr)
• Turkmen: kilogramm
• Ukrainian: кілогра́м (uk) m (kilohrám)
• Urdu: کلوگرام m (kilogrām)
• Uyghur: كىلوگرام (kilogram)
• Uzbek: kilogramm (uz)
• Vietnamese: kilôgam (vi), ki-lô-gam (vi), ki-lô (vi), kí lô (vi), ký (vi) (regional), kí (vi) (regional)
• Welsh: cilogram
• Yiddish: קילאָ n (kilo)
• Yoruba: kìlógíráàmù, kílò
• Zazaki: kilogram (diq) m

See also

• kilogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪloɡram]
• Hyphenation: ki‧lo‧gram

Noun

kilogram m inan

1. kilogram

   Synonym: kilo

Declension

Declension of kilogram (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogramy
genitive	kilogramu	kilogramů
dative	kilogramu	kilogramům
accusative	kilogram	kilogramy
vocative	kilograme	kilogramy
locative	kilogramu	kilogramech
instrumental	kilogramem	kilogramy

Further reading

• kilogram in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kilogram in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

kilogram n (singular definite kilogrammet, plural indefinite kilogram)

1. kilogram

Declension

Declension of kilogram

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kilogram	kilogrammet	kilogram	kilogrammene
genitive	kilograms	kilogrammets	kilograms	kilogrammenes

References

• “kilogram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ki‧lo‧gram

Noun

kilogram m (plural kilogrammen, diminutive kilogrammetje n)

1. kilogram

Synonyms

• kilo

Further reading

• “kilogram” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• “kilogram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• “kilogram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiˈlɔɡ.ram/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɡram
• Syllabification: ki‧log‧ram

Noun

kilogram m inan

1. kilogram

   Synonym: (colloquial) kilo

Declension

Declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogramy
genitive	kilograma	kilogramów
dative	kilogramowi	kilogramom
accusative	kilogram	kilogramy
instrumental	kilogramem	kilogramami
locative	kilogramie	kilogramach
vocative	kilogramie	kilogramy

Further reading

• kilogram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kilogram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.lo.ˈɡram/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: ki‧lo‧gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• kilogram in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîloɡram/
• Hyphenation: ki‧log‧ram

Noun

kȉlogram m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏лограм)

1. kilogram

Declension

Declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogrami
genitive	kilograma	kilograma
dative	kilogramu	kilogramima
accusative	kilogram	kilograme
vocative	kilograme	kilogrami
locative	kilogramu	kilogramima
instrumental	kilogramom	kilogramima

Further reading

• “kilogram” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiɫɔɡram/

Noun

kilogram m inan (genitive singular kilogramu, nominative plural kilogramy, genitive plural kilogramov, declension pattern of dub)

1. kilogram

Declension

Declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogramy
genitive	kilogramu	kilogramov
dative	kilogramu	kilogramom
accusative	kilogram	kilogramy
locative	kilograme	kilogramoch
instrumental	kilogramom	kilogramami

Derived terms

• kilogramový

Further reading

• “kilogram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Tatar

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Declension

declension of kilogram

	singular	plural
nominative	kilogram	kilogram
genitive	kilogram	kilogram
dative	kilogram	kilogram
accusative	kilogram	kilogram
locative	kilogram	kilogram
ablative	kilogram	kilogram

Turkish

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• “kilogram”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu