kang

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kang"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

Alternative forms

• k'ang (Wade–Giles)

Noun

kang (plural kangs)

1. 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.

2. A large Chinese water jar.

Etymology 2

Noun

kang (plural kangs)

1. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.

Etymology 3

Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

Verb

kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)

1. (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

Anagrams

• gank, knag

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /kaŋ˧/

Noun

kang

1. life

Adjective

kang

1. rough
2. (Lianghe, Luxi) bad

   Synonym: (Myanmar, Xiandao) ma gis

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 52

Amis

Etymology

From Japanese 癌(ガン) (gan).

Noun

kang

1. cancer

Bahnar

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kaːŋ/

Noun

kang 

1. (anatomy) chin

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

Preposition

kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. alternative form of kan

Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

Preposition

kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.

   This shirt is for Dad.

2. Used to mark possession by a person

   Synonym: ni

Usage notes

• Possessive constructions with kang put the possessor before the object possessed, connected by the linker nga. This is in contrast to when ni is used, where the possessor follows the object possessed and the linker is not needed.

  kang Juan nga balay ― Juan's house

  balay ni Juan ― Juan's house

See also

Cebuano markers

		Direct		Indirect		Oblique
		Definite	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite
Common	Singular	ang	ing†, 'y	sa, sang†	og	sa
	Plural	ang mga	ing mga†, 'y mga	sa mga, sang mga†	og mga	sa mga
Personal	Singular	si		ni		kang*
	Plural	sila ni, silang sa†		nila ni, nilang na†		(kan)ila ni*, (kan)ilang* ka†
†Archaic *Indirect personal forms used instead in colloquial speech.

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkɐŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: kang

Etymology 1

Apocopic form of kangko.

Determiner

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

1. my; of me; by me

   Synonym: kangko

   kang manok ― my bird

   kang ibog ― my desire

See also

Hanunoo personal pronouns

Person	Number	Direct	Indirect	Oblique
First	singular	ako	niko	kangko, kang
	plural inclusive	kita	nita	kanta
	plural exclusive	kami	nimi	kanmi
Second	singular	kawo, ka	nimo	kanmo
	plural	kamo	niyo	kanyo
Third	singular	siya	niya	kanya
	plural	sida	nida	kanda

Etymology 2

Conjunction

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

1. when I…

   kang ati sa Caguray… ― (once) when I was on the Caguray (River)…

Usage notes

• Used when telling narrations.

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 140

Javanese

Javanese writing system
Carakan	ꦏꦁ
Pegon
Roman	kang

Etymology 1

Pronoun

Javanese register set
ꦏꦿꦩ (krama): ꦲꦶꦁꦏꦁ (ingkang)
ꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (ngoko): ꦏꦁ (kang)

kang (ngoko)

1. who, which, that (relative pronoun)

   kang ageng

   the big one

Etymology 2

Noun

Javanese register set
ꦏꦿꦩ (krama): ꦏꦁ (kang)
ꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (ngoko): ꦏꦁ (kang)

kang (krama, ngoko)

1. older brother

   kangmas arep nandi

   where are you going big brother

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

Noun

kang

1. customs

References

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[3], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkäŋ]

Preposition

kang

1. used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Bulaklak kang inda.

   Flowers for mom.

2. Used to mark possession by a person

   Synonyms: nang, ning, kari, dari

   Bale kang Juan.

   To Juan's house.

See also

Kapampangan markers

		direct	indirect	oblique
common	singular	ing	ning, -ng	king
	plural	ding/ring	ring	karing
personal	singular	i	-ng	kang
	plural / polite	di/ri	ri	kari

Lutuv

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kə̀ŋ̀]

Verb

kang

1. to be cold

References

• Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022), “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[4], volume 3, number 1

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]
• Rhymes: -kaŋ, -aŋ
• Hyphenation: kang

Etymology 1

Variant of kakak.

Noun

kang

1. older sister
2. older sibling (rare)
3. older brother (rare)

Synonyms

• kakak

Etymology 2

Elision of medial -ar-.

Adverb

kang (colloquial)

1. syncopic form of karang (“later; soon”)

Osing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kang
• Rhymes: -aŋ

Noun

kang

1. shortened form of kakang

Conjunction

kang

1. (relative) that

Mandarin

Romanization

kang

1. nonstandard spelling of kāng
2. nonstandard spelling of káng
3. nonstandard spelling of kǎng
4. nonstandard spelling of kàng

Usage notes

• 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.

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kaŋ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaŋ (“to burn, roast”).

Verb

kang (stem II kan)

1. to fry
2. to be exposed to the sun

Adjective

kang (stem II kan)

1. sunny

Derived terms

• bekang

Related terms

• kâng

Mokilese

Verb

kang (progressive kangkangkang)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

Derived terms

• kangla

References

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 摃 / 𫼱 (kàng).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: kang

Noun

kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔) (mahjong)

1. kong (a set of four identical tiles)

Further reading

• “kang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 145
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948), Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 29