kono

From Māori [Term?].

kono (plural kono or konos)

1. (New Zealand) A traditional Maori woven basket.
   • 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 264:

     To others my love is a plaited kono / Full or empty […] .

   • 2016, Nigel Borell, edited by Ngahiraka Mason, Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits, page 214:

     His son Hector is the source image of the young boy seated on a log eating a potato from a kono […] .

• IPA^(key): [kono]

kono

1. green

• Leenhardt, M. (1935), Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946), Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Proto-Great Andamanese *kənə.

kono

1. to forbid
2. to obstruct
3. to keep from

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 19 (2009)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-gòn.

kono

1. to ail, to be ill/sick

Borrowed from Spanish cono.

• IPA^(key): /kono/ [ko.no]
• Rhymes: -ono, -o
• Hyphenation: ko‧no

kono inan

1. (geometry) cone

• “kono”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Borrowed from Spanish cono.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkono/ [ˈko.n̪o]
• Hyphenation: ko‧no

kóno (Basahan spelling ᜃᜓᜈᜓ)

1. (geometry) cone

   Synonym: balisungsong

From koni +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkono/

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: ko‧no

kono (uncountable, accusative konon)

1. knowledge

• koni
• konato

kono

1. (Pular) but, however

• ammaa (Adamawa)
• dee (Liptaako)
• kaa (Massina)

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

From Proto-Central-Eastern Polynesian *tono "bit, command". Cognate with Māori tono (“bid, command”), Tahitian tono (“send, assign”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.no/

kono

1. invitation

kono(transitive)

1. to invite, to ask in
2. to entice, to lure
3. to prompt, to induce

• hoʻokono (causative)
• konokono (reduplicated form)

• kono in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

kono

1. Rōmaji transcription of この

kono

1. there

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *koniCo. Compare Alabama kono, Chickasaw koni, Choctaw koni, Creek kunu.

kono

1. skunk

kono

1. true

Borrowed from Bangi kono.

kono

1. to ail, to be ill/sick

Borrowed from Spanish cono, from Latin cōnus, from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkono/ [ˈkoː.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: ko‧no

kono (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜈᜓ)

1. (geometry) cone

   Synonym: (neologism) tagilog

2. anything shaped like a cone
3. large mechanized rice mill (especially cone-type mills)

• “kono”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “kono”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 154