kilogram

See also: kilo-gram

English

Alternative forms

• kilogramme (dated)

Etymology

From French kilogramme; synchronically analyzable as 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 liter of water, and 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

Translations

unit of mass equal to 1000 grams

• Afrikaans: kilogram
• Albanian: kilogram (sq) m
• Amharic: ኪሎግራም (kilogram)
• Arabic: كِيلُوغْرَام m (kīlūḡrām)

  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)
• Bengali: কিলো (kilō), কিলোগ্রাম (kilōgram)
• Bulgarian: килогра́м (bg) m (kilográm)
• Burmese: ကီလိုဂရမ် (my) (kiluiga.ram)
• Catalan: quilogram (ca) m
• Chamicuro: kilo
• Chinese:

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

  Hakka: 公斤 (kûng-kîn), 奇勞／奇劳, 奇劳 (ki-ló)

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

  Min Nan: 公斤 (zh-min-nan) (kong-kin)

• 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),
• Hebrew: קִילוֹגְרָם (he) m (kilogram)
• Hindi: किलो (kilo), किलोग्राम m (kilogrām)
• Hungarian: kilogramm (hu)
• Icelandic: kílógramm (is)
• Indonesian: kilogram (id)
• Irish: cileagram m
• Italian: chilogrammo (it) m, chilo (it) m
• Japanese: キログラム (ja) (kiroguramu), キロ (ja) (kiro)
• Kazakh: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Khmer: គីឡូក្រាម (km) (kiiloo kraam)
• Korean: 킬로그램 (ko) (killogeuraem), 키로 (ko) (kiro), 킬로 (ko) (killo)
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• Kyrgyz: килограмм (kilogramm)
• Lao: ກິໂລກຣາມ (ki lōk rām), ກິໂລ (lo) (ki lō), ກິ​ໂລ​ກຼາມ
• Latin: kilogramma n, chiliogramma (la) n
• Latvian: kilograms m, kilo m
• Lithuanian: kilogramas (lt) m
• Macedonian: килограм m (kilogram)
• Malagasy: kilaograma (mg)
• Malay: kilogram
• Maltese: kilogramm m
• Maori: kirokaramu, manokaramu
• Mongolian: килограмм (mn) (kilogramm)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kilogram

• Ottoman Turkish: اوقه (oqqa)
• Pashto: کېلو m (kiló, keló)
• Persian: کیلوگرم (fa) (kilogram)
• Polish: kilogram (pl) m, kilo (pl) n
• Portuguese: quilograma (pt) m
• Romanian: kilogram (ro) n
• Russian: килогра́мм (ru) m (kilográmm), кило́ (ru) n (kiló)
• Rusyn: килогра́м m (kylohrám)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: килограм m

  Roman: kilogram (sh) m

• 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)
• Tatar: килограм (kiloğram)
• Telugu: కిలోగ్రాము (kilōgrāmu)
• Thai: กิโลกรัม (th) (gì-loo-gram), กิโล (th) (gì-loo), โล (th) (loh)
• 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)
• Yiddish: קילאָ n (kilo)

See also

• kilogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Czech

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪloɡram/

Noun

kilogram m inan

1. kilogram

Synonyms

• kilo

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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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

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Dutch

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• 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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• “kilogram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

• “kilogram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

From kilo- +‎ gram.

Pronunciation

• Template:pl-IPA

• Audio:

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Noun

kilogram m inan

1. kilogram

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

Synonyms

• (coll.) kilo

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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 (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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Slovak

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiɫɔɡram/

Noun

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 (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

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Tatar

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Declension

    declension of kilogram

Nominative	kilogram
Genitive	kilogramnıñ
Dative	kilogramga
Accusative	kilogramnı
Locative	kilogramda
Ablative	kilogramdan

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Turkish

Etymology

kilo- +‎ gram

Noun

kilogram

1. kilogram

Further reading

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