Ku Klux Klan

See also: Ku-Klux-Klan and Kuklux Klan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”) and clan, split syllabically into three words, with the first letter of clan changing to a 'k' in order to match the initial letters of the previous two words.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌku klʌks ˈklæn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˌkuː klʊks ˈklan/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˌkʉ klʌks ˈklan/

Proper noun

the Ku Klux Klan

1. An American white supremacist secret society and terrorist organization.

   Synonyms: Klan, KKK, Klux, Invisible Empire

   • 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 653:

     The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.

Related terms

• KKK
• Klansman
• Ku-Klux

Translations

Ku Klux Klan

• Arabic: كُو كْلُوكْس كْلَان m (kū klūks klān)
• Armenian: Կու-կլուքս-կլան (Ku-klukʻs-klan)
• Azerbaijani: Ku-kluks-klan
• Belarusian: Ку-Клукс-кла́н m (Ku-Kluks-klán)
• Bengali: কু ক্লাক্স ক্লান (ku klakśo klan)
• Bulgarian: Ку-клукс-кла́н m (Ku-kluks-klán)
• Burmese: ကူကလပ်ကလန် (kuka.lapka.lan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三K黨 / 三K党 (zh) (sān-kèi-dǎng)

• Dutch: Ku Klux Klan
• Esperanto: Ku-Kluks-Klano
• Finnish: Ku Klux Klan
• French: Ku Klux Klan (fr) m
• Georgian: კუ-კლუქს-კლანი (ḳu-ḳluks-ḳlani)
• German: Ku-Klux-Klan (de) m
• Greek: Κου Κλουξ Κλαν (Kou Kloux Klan)
• Hebrew: קו קלוקס קלאן m (ku kluks klan)
• Hindi: कू क्लुक्स क्लॅन (hi) (kū kluks klĕn)
• Hungarian: Ku Klux Klan
• Icelandic: Ku Klux Klan
• Italian: Ku Klux Klan (it) m
• Japanese: クー・クラックス・クラン (Kū-kurakkusu-kuran)
• Korean: 쿠 클럭스 클랜 (Ku keulleokseu keullaen)
• Lithuanian: Kukluksklanas m
• Macedonian: Кју-клукс-клан m (Kju-kluks-klan)
• Marathi: कू क्लुक्स क्लॅन (mr) (kū kluksa klĕn)
• Mongolian: Ку-клукс-клан (Ku-kluks-klan)
• Norwegian: Ku Klux Klan
• Persian: کو کلوکس کلان (ku keluks kelân)
• Polish: Ku Klux Klan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Ku Klux Klan (pt)
• Romanian: Ku Klux Klan
• Russian: Ку-клукс-кла́н m (Ku-kluks-klán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кју-клукс-клан m

  Latin: Kju-kluks-klan m

• Slovak: Kukluxklan m
• Slovene: Kukluksklan m
• Spanish: Ku Klux Klan m
• Swedish: Ku Klux Klan
• Thai: คูคลักซ์แคลน (kuu-klák-klɛɛn)
• Turkish: Ku Klux Klan (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ку-Клукс-кла́н m (Ku-Kluks-klán), ку-клукс-кла́н m (ku-kluks-klán)
• Uzbek: Ku-Kluks-Klan
• Vietnamese: Ku Klux Klan
• Yiddish: קו־קלוקס־קלען f (ku-kluks-klen)

See also

• nightrider
• whitecapper

Further reading

• “Ku Klux Klan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “Ku Klux Klan”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ku Klux Klan m or f

1. Ku Klux Klan

Romanian

Proper noun

Ku Klux Klan n

1. Ku Klux Klan

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Ku Klux Klan.

Proper noun

Ku Klux Klan m

1. Ku Klux Klan