# kang
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

#### Alternative forms

* k'ang (Wade–Giles)

#### Noun

kang (plural kangs)
* A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
** 1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness‎, →OCLC:Why is it built this way? Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven. Kang? What is a kang for? A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in. You mean togther? Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.
* A large Chinese water jar.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

kang (plural kangs)
* (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.

### Etymology 3

Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.

#### Verb

kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)
* (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

### Anagrams

* gank, knag

## Amis
### Etymology

From Japanese 癌 (gan).

### Noun

kang
* cancer

## Bahnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *kaːŋ. Cognate with Jeh kaːŋ ("jaw"), Cua kaːk ("chin"), Arem kæːŋʔ ("mouth"). Possibly related to the word reconstructed as Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔaaŋ (“to open”) by Shorto (2006).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaːŋ/

### Noun

kang
* (anatomy) chin

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

### Preposition

kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
* Alternative form of kan

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ka (“personal oblique marker”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]

### Preposition

kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)
* Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
    Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.This shirt is for Dad.
* Used to mark possession by a person
    Synonym: ni

#### Usage notes

* Possessive constructions with kang put the possessor before the object possessed, connected by the linker nga. This is in contrast to when ni is used, where the possessor follows the object possessed and the linker is not needed.
    kang Juan nga balay ― Juan's house
    balay ni Juan ― Juan's house

### See also

| | | Direct | Direct | Indirect | Indirect | Oblique |
| | | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Oblique |
| Common | Singular | ang | ing$^†$, 'y | sa, sang$^†$ | og | sa |
| Common | Plural | ang mga | ing mga$^†$, 'y mga | sa mga, sang mga$^†$ | og mga | sa mga |
| Personal | Singular | si | si | ni | ni | kang* |
| Personal | Plural | sila ni, silang sa$^†$ | sila ni, silang sa$^†$ | nila ni, nilang na$^†$ | nila ni, nilang na$^†$ | (kan)ila ni*, (kan)ilang* ka$^†$ |
| $^†$Archaic *Indirect personal forms used instead in colloquial speech. |||||||

### References

* ↑ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ka₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Hanunoo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkɐŋ]
* Rhymes: -aŋ
* Syllabification: kang

### Etymology 1

Apocopic form of kangko.

#### Determiner

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)
* my; of me; by me
    Synonym: kangko
    kang manok ― my bird
    kang ibog ― my desire

##### See also

| Person | Number | Direct | Indirect | Oblique |
| First | singular | ako | niko | kangko, kang |
| First | plural inclusive | kita | nita | kanta |
| First | plural exclusive | kami | nimi | kanmi |
| Second | singular | kawo, ka | nimo | kanmo |
| Second | plural | kamo | niyo | kanyo |
| Third | singular | siya | niya | kanya |
| Third | plural | sida | nida | kanda |

### Etymology 2
#### Conjunction

kang (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜥ᜴)
* when I…
    kang ati sa Caguray… ― (once) when I was on the Caguray (River)…

##### Usage notes

* Used when telling narrations.

### Further reading

* Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 140

## Javanese
### Determiner

kang
* Clipping of ingkang.

### Pronoun

kang
* Clipping of ingkang.

## Jingpho
### Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

### Noun

kang
* customs

### References

* Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

Contraction of ka +‎ ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkäŋ]

### Preposition

kang
* used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns
    Bulaklak kang inda.Flowers for mom.

### See also
## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

IPA: [kə̀ŋ̀]

### Verb

kang
* to be cold

### References

* Amanda Bohnert, Kelly Harper Berkson, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Vowel Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

## Malay
### Etymology

Variant of kakak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaŋ/
* Rhymes: -kaŋ, -aŋ

### Noun

kang
* older sister
* older sibling (rare)
* older brother (rare)

#### Synonyms

* kakak

## Mandarin
### Romanization

kang
* Nonstandard spelling of kāng.
* Nonstandard spelling of káng.
* Nonstandard spelling of kǎng.
* Nonstandard spelling of kàng.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mokilese
### Verb

kang (progressive kangkangkang)
* (transitive, intransitive) to eat

#### Derived terms

* kangla

#### References

* Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 摃 / 𫼱 (kàng).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]
* Rhymes: -aŋ
* Syllabification: kang

### Noun

kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔) (mahjong)
* kong (a set of four identical tiles)

### Further reading

* “kang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 145
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 29