# kon
## Translingual
### Symbol

kon
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kongo.

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔn/

### Verb

kon
* preterite of kan; could

## Atikamekw
### Noun

kon anim
* snow

## Bahnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Koho kon, Vietnamese con, Khasi khun, Khmer កូន (koun), Mon ကွေန် (kon), Car Nicobarese kūön.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔːn/

### Noun

kon
* child, offspring

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkon/ [ˈkon̪]

### Conjunction

kon
* Alternative form of kun

## Breton
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ̃ːn/

### Noun

kon m pl
* plural of ki

### Mutation
## Czech
### Etymology

Deverbal from konat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkon]

### Noun

kon m inan
* (literary) act

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “kon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “kon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔn/
* Rhymes: -ɔn
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

kon
* singular past indicative of kunnen

## Japanese
### Romanization

kon
* Rōmaji transcription of こん

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* con

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish con (“with”), from Latin cum (“with”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kon/
* Audio (Spain):(file)

### Preposition

kon (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קון)
* with
    Antonym: sin
** 2019, Şeli GAON, “Viyaje A Andalusia - 2”, in Şalom‎:La maale de los djudyos se topa en el sentro de la sivdad vyeja, toda la kaleja golyendo al miskle de flores, las plasas kon las pisinas, los arvoles de portokales kon los kortijos finos avyertos para ke los turistos vijiten.The Jewish district is located in the center of the old city, the whole street smelling of a mixture of flowers, the plazas with the swimming pools, the orange trees with the fine open patios for the tourists to visit.

#### Usage notes

Unlike in Spanish, kon need not combine with pronouns in Ladino. One can simply use kon mi, kon ti, and kon si in contrast to Spanish conmigo, contigo, and consigo, but konmigo, kontigo, and konsigo are all attested as well.

### References

* ↑ “kon”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Maia
### Etymology

From English.

### Noun

kon
* corn

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cono.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔːn/

### Noun

kon m (plural konijiet)
* cone

#### Related terms

* koniku

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese como and Spanish como and Kabuverdianu komo.

### Adverb

kon
* how
* why

## Romani
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar). Cognate with Hindi कौन (kaun), Bengali কোন (kōn) and Marathi कोण (koṇ).

### Pronoun

kon (oblique kas)
* who? (interrogative)
    Kon si kothe?Who's there?

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kaḥ punar”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 127
* 1 2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kon”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 147b
* 1 2 Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 32-33
* ↑ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “kon, kas = kon, -es¹N”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 201b

## Sranan Tongo
### Verb

kon
* To arrive.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

#### Noun

kon c
* (geometry) a cone
** a traffic cone
    Synonyms: trafikkon, vägkon

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | kon | kons |
| singular | definite | konen | konens |
| plural | indefinite | koner | koners |
| plural | definite | konerna | konernas |

##### Related terms

* konisk

##### See also

* kägla
* strut

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

kon
* definite singular of ko

### References

* kon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* kon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* kon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English corn.

### Noun

kon
* corn
** 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎, →ISBN, page 433:Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Yola
### Noun

kon
* Alternative form of cooan

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51