hong
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Etymology 1[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb[edit]
hong
- (obsolete) past tense of hang
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 7:
- Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
Etymology 2[edit]
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”)
Noun[edit]
hong (plural hongs)
- a foreign trading company in China
- tea hong
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Noun[edit]
hong m
- h-prothesized form of ong
Verb[edit]
hong
- h-prothesized form of ong
Ludian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
hong
- forest pine
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
hong
- Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hòng.
Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
Palauan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
hong
Veps[edit]
Noun[edit]
hong
- forest pine
Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Chinese 烘, Thai แห้ง (hɛ̂ɛng).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
Zhuang[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Zhuang, Shuangqiao) IPA(key): /hoːŋ˨˦/
- Tone numbers: hong1
- Hyphenation: hong
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
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, old orthography hoŋ)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
hong (old orthography hoŋ)
Zou[edit]
Verb[edit]
hong
References[edit]
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋ
- Rhymes:English/ɒŋ/1 syllable
- English non-lemma forms
- English verb forms
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- English terms derived from Cantonese
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish mutated nouns
- Irish h-prothesized forms
- Irish mutated verbs
- Ludian lemmas
- Ludian nouns
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Hanyu Pinyin
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Palauan terms borrowed from Japanese
- Palauan terms derived from Japanese
- Palauan lemmas
- Palauan nouns
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese verbs
- Zhuang terms with IPA pronunciation
- Zhuang 1-syllable words
- Zhuang terms borrowed from Chinese
- Zhuang terms derived from Chinese
- Zhuang lemmas
- Zhuang nouns
- Zhuang terms inherited from Proto-Tai
- Zhuang terms derived from Proto-Tai
- Zhuang dialectal terms
- Zou lemmas
- Zou verbs