kang

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

• k'ang (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: käng

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.

kang (plural kangs)

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

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.

kang (plural kangs)

1. (Internet slang) Nonstandard form of king

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) To appropriate the history of another ethnicity or country, in particular an empire or a civilization.
2. (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.

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

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.

• gank, knag

• (Myanmar) /kaŋ˧/

kang

1. life

kang

1. rough
2. (Lianghe, Luxi) bad

   Synonym: (Myanmar, Xiandao) ma gis

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

From Japanese 癌(ガン) (gan).

kang

1. cancer

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).

• IPA^(key): /kaːŋ/

kang

1. (anatomy) chin

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

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

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. alternative form of kan

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

Apocopic form of kangko.

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

1. my; of me; by me

   Synonym: kangko

   kang manok ― my bird

   kang ibog ― my desire

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)

1. when I…

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

• Used when telling narrations.

• 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 writing system
Carakan	ꦏꦁ
Pegon
Roman	kang

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

kang (ngoko)

1. who, which, that (relative pronoun)

   kang ageng

   the big one

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

Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

kang

1. customs

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkäŋ]

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.

• IPA^(key): [kə̀ŋ̀]

kang

1. to be cold

• 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

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

Variant of kakak.

kang

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

• kakak

Elision of medial -ar-.

kang (colloquial)

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

kang

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

• 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.

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

kang (stem II kan)

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

kang (stem II kan)

1. sunny

kang (progressive kangkangkang)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

• kangla

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

• IPA^(key): /kaŋ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kang
• Rhymes: -aŋ

kang

1. shortened form of kakang

kang

1. (relative) that

Borrowed from Hokkien 摃 / 𫼱 (kàng).

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

kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔) (mahjong)

1. kong (a set of four identical tiles)

• “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