Kim

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 Dutch 3.1 See also 3.2 Proper noun 4 Norwegian 4.1 Proper noun 5 Swedish 5.1 Proper noun 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Proper noun 6.3 See also

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

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Singular Kim

Plural -

Kim

1. A male given name, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
   • 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 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.

2. A female given name used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
   • 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, 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.

3. A surname, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김, 金)

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• Bulgarian: Ким

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Kim

1. A male given name, short form of Joakim.

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• kim

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Kim

1. A female given name borrowed from English.

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Kim

1. A male given name shortened from Joakim.

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Kim

1. A male given name shortened from Joakim.
2. A female given name recently borrowed from English.

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• IPA: kīm

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Kim

1. A female given name, translates into English as "gold" or "golden" often in conjunction with the secondary given name Thi, which simply means female.

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• kim