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kang

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kang"

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

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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

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kang (plural kangs)

  1. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Etymology 3

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From the Internet meme we wuz kangz, with the word kang itself ultimately from king, referring to the pharaohs, from which Afrocentrist nationalists claim to be descended.

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kang (plural kangs)

  1. (Internet slang) Nonstandard form of king

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kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged) (Internet slang, derogatory, sarcastic, humorous, 4chan slang)

  1. (transitive, India) To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)(transitive, intransitive) To mock or satirize a popular but discredited Afrocentric theory claiming that sub-Saharan Africans were descended from or related to ancient Egyptians.

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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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.

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Achang

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Pronunciation

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  • (Myanmar) /kaŋ˧/

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kang

  1. life

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kang

  1. rough
  2. (Lianghe, Luxi) bad
    Synonym: (Myanmar, Xiandao) ma gis

Further reading

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

Amis

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From Japanese 癌(ガン) (gan).

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kang

  1. cancer

Bahnar

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Etymology

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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).

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kang

  1. (anatomy) chin

Cebuano

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).[1]

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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

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  • 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

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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.

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ka₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Central Bikol

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kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

  1. alternative form of kan

Hanunoo

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Apocopic form of kangko.

Determiner

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kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

  1. my; of me; by me
    Synonym: kangko
    kang manok ― my bird
    kang ibog ― my desire
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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

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Conjunction

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kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

  1. when I…
    kang ati sa Caguray… ― (once) when I was on the Caguray (River)…
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  • Used when telling narrations.

Further reading

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  • 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

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Javanese writing system
Carakan ꦏꦁ
Pegon
Roman kang

Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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

kang (ngoko)

  1. who, which, that (relative pronoun)
    kang ageng
    the big one

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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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

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kang

  1. customs

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).[1]

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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.

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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

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ka₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Lutuv

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kang

  1. to be cold
    Mawluo, tiy ca a kang aa
    Tomorrow the water will be cold
    Tiy ca a za kang taw
    The water used to be cold

References

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  • 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
  • Ziegler, Grayson (September 2025), “Prominence of tense, aspect, and mood morphology in the Lutuv (Lautu) verbal complex”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎[5], volume 4, number 1, →DOI

Malay

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Variant of kakak.

Noun

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kang

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

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Elision of medial -ar-.

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kang (colloquial)

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

Mandarin

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Romanization

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kang

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

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

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kang (stem II kan)

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

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kang (stem II kan)

  1. sunny

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Mokilese

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kang (progressive kangkangkang)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

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References

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  • Harrison, Sheldon P.; Albert, Salich Y. (1977), Mokilese-English Dictionary‎[6], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 95
  • Harrison, Sheldon P. (1976), Mokilese Reference Grammar‎[7], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii

Osing

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaŋ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: kang
  • Rhymes: -aŋ

Noun

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kang

  1. shortened form of kakang

Conjunction

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kang

  1. (relative) that

Pumpokol

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Etymology

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Most likely related to Ket кыʼӈ (kɨˀŋ, “vomit, spew, eructation”).[1]

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kang (plural unknown)

  1. entrails; belly, stomach

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  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 381, 457

Further reading

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  • Портфель Миллера in Russian state archives, folio 199.
  • Werner, Heinrich K. (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz KG, →ISBN, page 183

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien 摃 / 𫼱 (kàng).

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kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔) (mahjong)

  1. kong (a set of four identical tiles)

Further reading

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  • “kang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 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
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