# ခင်
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰɪ̀ɴ/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hkang • ALA-LC: khaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkin • Okell: hkiñ

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (khaŋ "attached to"), and Luce adduces no cognates. Also unclear if all these senses are etymologically linked, though MED groups them together. Perhaps related to the Old Chinese word family including 剛 (OC *klaːŋ, “hard, stiff”), with semantic shift "hard" > "to be hard onto" > "to become attached to (hard-linked to)"?”

#### Verb

ခင် • (hkang)
* to be friendly with, be loving, be fond of, have an attachment for (someone)
* to be favorable, to ready (used in conjunction with မ (ma.))

#### Noun

ခင် • (hkang)
* term of endearment for a woman
* (same as အခင် (a.hkang)) reed in a wind instrument

#### Conjunction

ခင် • (hkang)
* a word that indicates that something has been done in advance: before
* (used in conjunction with a verb with the မ (ma.) prefix) not yet, before (doing, eating, etc.)

#### Classifier

ခင် • (hkang)
* numerical classifier used in counting skeins of wool or cotton

#### Derived terms

* ခင်ခင် (hkanghkang)
* ခင်ခင်မွတ်မွတ် (hkanghkangmwatmwat)
* ခင်တံ (hkangtam)
* ခင်တွယ် (hkangtwai)
* ခင်တုရင် (hkangtu.rang)
* ခင်ပလွေ (hkangpa.lwe)
* ခင်ပွန်း (hkangpwan:)
* ခင်ပွန်းကြီး (hkangpwan:kri:)
* ခင်မင် (hkangmang)
* ချစ်ခင် (hkyachkang)
* ချည်ခင် (hkyanyhkang)
* ချည်ခင်စွပ် (hkyanyhkangcwap)
* နတ်သမီးချည်ခင် (natsa.mi:hkyanyhkang)
* နားခင် (na:hkang)
* ဖခင် (hpa.hkang)
* ဘခင် (bha.hkang)
* မွေးသဖခင် (mwe:sa.hpa.hkang)
* မွေးသမိခင် (mwe:sa.mi.hkang)
* မိကောင်းဖခင် (mi.kaung:hpa.hkang)
* မိခင် (mi.hkang)
* ရှောင်တခင် (hraungta.hkang)
* ရှောင်တခင်ခွင့် (hraungta.hkanghkwang.)
* လျှာခင် (hlyahkang)
* လူချစ်လူခင်ပေါ (luhkyacluhkangpau:)
* သမီးခင်ပွန်း (sa.mi:hkangpwan:)
* အခင် (a.hkang)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”); see Old Chinese 岡 (OC *klaːŋ, “ridge, crest of hill; mountain”) for more (STEDT).

#### Noun

ခင် • (hkang)
* ridge (of land, narrow elevation across a surface

#### Postposition

ခင် • (hkang)
* across (the bleak land)

#### Derived terms

* ခင်တန်း (hkangtan:)
* ခင်ရိုး (hkang-rui:)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Chinese 琴 (qín, “zither”).

#### Noun

ခင် • (hkang)
* a stringed musical instrument somewhat like the Burmese ဒုံမင်း (dummang:), but played with bamboo strikers
* an instrument such as a harp

### Etymology 4

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *kaŋ (“father, grandfather, honorific”). See also Old Chinese 翁 (OC *qloːŋ, “old man”) and 公 (OC *kloːŋ, “duke, high-ranked male”) for further discussion of possible cognates (STEDT).

#### Noun

ခင် • (hkang)
* (archaic, in compounds) Lord, master

##### Derived terms

* ခင်ကြီး (hkangkri:)
* ခင်ဗျာ (hkangbya)
* ခင်ဗျား (hkangbya:)

#### Proper noun

ခင် • (hkang)
* a unisex given name

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AṄ Finals (14. to be Fond of; Darling)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 70

### Further reading

* “ခင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Mon
### Noun

ခင် (khaṅ)
* Alternative form of ခၚ်

## Pa'o Karen
### Etymology

From Proto-Karen *khaŋᴮ (“leg”). (Luangthongkum, 2019) Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခီၣ် (khaẁ), Western Pwo ခၪ့.

### Pronunciation

* (Northern Pa'o) IPA: /kʰaŋ⁵⁵/
* (Southern Pa'o) IPA: /kʰaŋ³³/

### Noun

ခင် (transliteration needed)
* leg.
* foot.