# K2
## English
### Alternative forms

* K-2

### Etymology 1

Thomas Montgomerie designated the mountain K2 in 1856 for being the second peak of the Karakoram range.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keɪˈtuː/

#### Proper noun

K2
* A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams.
** [1912, Filippo De Filippi, Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909‎, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:Here we have K², the highest mountain at present open to Europeans to attempt, only 750 feet lower than Mount Everest.²² The designation of K² as the second highest mountain in the world must not be taken too literally. As a matter of fact, it is less than a hundred feet higher than Kinchinjunga, and the calculations cannot yet be made with such exactness as to eliminate all chances of error. There is still the possibility that Kinchinjunga may prove to be the higher of the two.]
** 1954 October 11, “Assault on the Summit: The Conquerors' Account”, in Life‎, volume 37, number 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33:On the morning of July 31, the mountain rose spangled in the summer sun 2,300 feet above Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli. Strapping on three oxygen tanks, the two men faced toward K2's last fastness.
** 2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page v:What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?
** 2010, Graham Bowley, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2‎, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xx:Meyer’s team was one of eight international expeditions that were setting off on the final day of their ascent of K2, at 28,251 feet the second-tallest mountain on earth. K2 was nearly 800 feet shorter than Everest, the world’s highest peak, but it was considered much more difficult, and more deadly.
** 2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer‎, YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 2020-05-22:I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.
** 2021 January 19, Adam Skolnick, Bhadra Sharma, “How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-19, Sports‎:Even a successful spring or summer climb of K2 is rare. Fewer than 400 climbers have been to its apex. More people have been to outer space than have stood its summit.
** 2021 July 27, Umar Farooq, “Pakistani, 19, becomes youngest person to summit K2”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 27 July 2021:A 19-year-old Pakistani has become the youngest person to summit K2, the world's second highest mountain, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Tuesday. Shehroze Kashif reached the 8,611 metre (28,251 foot) summit at 8:10 a.m. on Tuesday.
** 2022 August 1, Emma Yeomans, Fiona Kingston, “Overcrowding on K2 as climbers queue to reach peak”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 August 2022, UK News‎:Climbers have warned of overcrowding on K2 — the world’s second highest mountain and one of its deadliest — after a sherpa took video of queues snaking towards the summit.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K2.

##### Synonyms

* Dapsang
* Mount Godwin-Austen
* Mount K2
* Qogir, Chogori

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* “K2, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “K2”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “K2 or Mount Godwin Austen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 891, column 1

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

K2
* (Philippines) Initialism of kinder two.

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kēi-èr, kèi-èr
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄟ ㄦˋ, ㄎㄟˋ ㄦˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kēi-èr
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄟ ㄦˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kei-èr
*** Wade–Giles: kʻei$^1$-êrh$^4$
*** Yale: kēi-èr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keiell
*** Palladius: кэйэр (kɛjɛr)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰeɪ̯⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kèi-èr
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄟˋ ㄦˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kèi-èr
*** Wade–Giles: kʻei$^4$-êrh$^4$
*** Yale: kèi-èr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keyell
*** Palladius: кэйэр (kɛjɛr)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰeɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ˀɤɻ⁵¹/

### Proper noun

K2
* (chiefly Taiwan) K2; Alternative name for 喬戈里峰 (Qiáogēlǐ Fēng).

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English K2.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkaˈdva/
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: K‧2

### Proper noun

K2 f (indeclinable)
* K2 (a mountain in Himalayas, the world’s second highest mountain)

### Further reading

* K2 in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English K2.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka ˈdojs/

### Proper noun

K2 m
* K2 (a mountain in Himalayas, the world’s second highest mountain)