different between hong vs kong

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

hong

1. (obsolete) past tense of hang

Etymology 2

From Cantonese ? (hong4, “trade, business”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Could someone with knowledge of Cantonese verify this etymology? Is it a shortening of ??”)

Noun

hong (plural hongs)

1. a foreign trading company in China

Anagrams

• Gohn

Irish

Noun

hong m

1. h-prothesized form of ong

Verb

hong

1. h-prothesized form of ong

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish honka.

Noun

hong

1. forest pine

Mandarin

Romanization

hong

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?ng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Palauan

Etymology

From Japanese ? (hon).

Noun

hong

1. book

Veps

Noun

hong

1. forest pine

Vietnamese

Etymology

Compare Chinese ?, Thai ???? (h???ng).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [haw??m??]

Verb

hong • (????, ????)

1. to dry (in the wind, sun, or near the fire)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ho????/
• Tone numbers: hong¹
• Hyphenation: hong

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (OC *ko??).

Noun

hong (Sawndip forms ???? or ??? or ? or ??? or ??? or ? or ? or ? or ???? or ??? or ?, old orthography ho?)

1. work; labor

   Synonym: goeng

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *????? (“thing”). Cognate with Thai ??? (k???ng), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (kh?ng), Lü ??? (?oang), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (kh?ang), Zuojiang Zhuang kong.

Noun

hong (old orthography ho?)

1. (dialectal) thing; object

   Synonyms: doenghyiengh, doxgaiq, (dialectal) swhyiengh

Zou

Verb

hong

1. open

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese ? (gàng).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

kong (plural kongs)

1. (mahjong) A set of four identical tiles.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• chow
• pung

Anagrams

• gonk

Danish

Etymology

A pretonic form of konge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?/, [k???]

Noun

kong

1. king (used as a title before the name of a king)

See also

• grev

Hungarian

Etymology

From a sound-imitative root + -g (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko??]
• Rhymes: -o??

Verb

kong

1. (intransitive) to resound

Conjugation

or

Derived terms

• kongás
• kongat
• kong-bong

Related terms

• kondít
• kondul
• kongat

References

Further reading

• kong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Mandarin

Romanization

kong

1. Nonstandard spelling of k?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of k?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kòng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of kõng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Min Nan

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kaun

Noun

kong m (definite singular kongen, indefinite plural konger, definite plural kongene)

1. boil, carbuncle, abscess

Etymology 2

From konge (“king”)

Noun

kong (indeclinable)

1. The titular prefix given to a king

   kong Haakon VII

Related terms

• konge

References

• “kong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kong” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kaun n.

Alternative forms

• kaun

Noun

kong m (definite singular kongen, indefinite plural kongar, definite plural kongane)

1. boil, carbuncle, abscess

Etymology 2

From konge (“king”)

Noun

kong (indeclinable)

1. The titular prefix given to a king

   kong Haakon VII

Related terms

• konge

References

• “kong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.