hong
English
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#HONG
Verb
hongCategory:English non-lemma forms#HONGCategory:English verb forms#HONGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#HONG) past of hang
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,Category:English terms with quotations#HONG
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
Etymology 2
From CantoneseCategory:English terms derived from Cantonese#HONG 行 (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 洋行”)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#HONG
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɒŋ/Category:English 1-syllable words#HONGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɔŋ/Category:English 1-syllable words#HONGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- Rhymes: -ɒŋCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒŋ#HONGCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒŋ/1 syllable#HONG
Noun
hong (plural hongs)Category:English lemmas#HONGCategory:English nouns#HONGCategory:English countable nouns#HONGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- A foreign trading company in China.
- 1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11:
- "You and your son are about to visit China," said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.Category:English terms with quotations#HONG
- 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea:
- In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.Category:English terms with quotations#HONG
- 1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
- Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.Category:English terms with quotations#HONG
See also
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from HokkienCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Hokkien#HONGCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Hokkien#HONG 鳳凰／凤凰 (hōng-hông, “fenghuang”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈhoŋ/ [ˈhoŋ]Category:Indonesian 1-syllable words#HONGCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- Rhymes: -oŋCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/oŋ#HONGCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/oŋ/1 syllable#HONG
- Syllabification: hong
Noun
hong (plural hong-hong)Category:Indonesian lemmas#HONGCategory:Indonesian nouns#HONGCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- (Chinese mythologyCategory:id:Chinese mythology#HONG) fenghuang: a mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies
- Synonym: fenghuang
- (mythologyCategory:id:Mythology#HONG) phoenix: a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes
Further reading
- “hong”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Irish
Noun
hong mCategory:Irish non-lemma forms#HONGCategory:Irish mutated nouns#HONGCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
Verb
hongCategory:Irish non-lemma forms#HONGCategory:Irish mutated verbs#HONGCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
Ludian
Alternative forms
- honge (Pühärv)
Etymology
From Proto-FinnicCategory:Ludian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#HONGCategory:Ludian terms derived from Proto-Finnic#HONG *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.
Pronunciation
Noun
hongCategory:Ludian lemmas#HONGCategory:Ludian nouns#HONGCategory:Ludian entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- high dry forest pine
Declension
| Declension of hong (type 1b/hukk, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | hong | hongad |
| genitive | hongan | hongiden |
| partitive | hongad | hongid |
| essive | hongan | hongin |
| instructive | — | hongin |
| inessive | hongas | hongiš |
| elative | hongaspiä | hongišpiä |
| illative | hongah | hongihe |
| adessive | hongal | hongil |
| ablative | hongalpiä | hongilpiä |
| allative | hongale | hongile |
| abessive | hongata | hongita |
| prolative | hongači | hongiči |
| translative | hongaks | hongikš |
| additive | hongahpiä | hongihepiä |
| *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) | ||
Derived terms
References
- M. Pahomov (2022), “hong”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 48
- Juho Kujola (1944), “hoŋ̀g”, in Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 75
Makasar
Etymology
From DutchCategory:Makasar terms borrowed from Dutch#HONGCategory:Makasar terms derived from Dutch#HONG gom (“gum; eraser”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoŋ/, [ˈhõŋ]Category:Makasar terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- Hyphenation: hong
Noun
hong (Lontara spelling ᨖᨚ)Category:Makasar lemmas#HONGCategory:Makasar nouns#HONGCategory:Makasar entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- an eraser
Compounds
Further reading
- Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Mandarin
Romanization
hongCategory:Hanyu Pinyin#HONG0Category:Mandarin non-lemma forms#HONG0Category:Mandarin terms with redundant script codes#HONG0Category:Mandarin entries with incorrect language header#HONG0Category:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- nonstandard spelling of hōngCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#HONG0
- nonstandard spelling of hóngCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#HONG0
- nonstandard spelling of hǒngCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#HONG0
- nonstandard spelling of hòngCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#HONG0
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.
Palauan
Etymology
From JapaneseCategory:Palauan terms borrowed from Japanese#HONGCategory:Palauan terms derived from Japanese#HONG 本 (hon).
Pronunciation
Noun
hongCategory:Palauan lemmas#HONGCategory:Palauan nouns#HONGCategory:Palauan entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
References
- hong in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
- hong in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
- hong in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977), Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 91.
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-FinnicCategory:Veps terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#HONGCategory:Veps terms derived from Proto-Finnic#HONG *honka.
Pronunciation
Noun
hongCategory:Veps lemmas#HONGCategory:Veps nouns#HONGCategory:Veps entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- old or dead forest pine
Declension
| Inflection of hong (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | hong | ||
| genitive sing. | hongan | ||
| partitive sing. | hongad | ||
| partitive plur. | hongid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hong | hongad | |
| accusative | hongan | hongad | |
| genitive | hongan | hongiden | |
| partitive | hongad | hongid | |
| essive-instructive | hongan | hongin | |
| translative | hongaks | hongikš | |
| inessive | hongas | hongiš | |
| elative | hongaspäi | hongišpäi | |
| illative | hongaha | hongihe | |
| adessive | hongal | hongil | |
| ablative | hongalpäi | hongilpäi | |
| allative | hongale | hongile | |
| abessive | hongata | hongita | |
| comitative | honganke | hongidenke | |
| prolative | hongadme | hongidme | |
| approximative I | honganno | hongidenno | |
| approximative II | hongannoks | hongidennoks | |
| egressive | hongannopäi | hongidennopäi | |
| terminative I | hongahasai | hongihesai | |
| terminative II | hongalesai | hongilesai | |
| terminative III | hongassai | — | |
| additive I | hongahapäi | hongihepäi | |
| additive II | hongalepäi | hongilepäi | |
Vietnamese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- (Huế) IPA(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [hɔŋ˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [hawŋ͡m˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#HONGCategory:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
Verb
hong • (𣈞, 𤈤)Category:Vietnamese lemmas#HONGCategory:Vietnamese verbs#HONGCategory:Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /hoːŋ˨˦/Category:Zhuang terms with IPA pronunciation#HON1
- Tone numbers: hong1
- Hyphenation: hongCategory:Zhuang 1-syllable words#HON1
Etymology 1
From ChineseCategory:Zhuang terms borrowed from Chinese#HON1Category:Zhuang terms derived from Chinese#HON1 工 (OC *koːŋ).
Noun
hong (Sawndip forms 𰏊 or ⿱功大 or 慌 or ⿰工空 or ⿱红工 or 啌 or 空 or 康 or 𭘎 or ⿱䒑巷 or 控, 1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)Category:Zhuang lemmas#HON1Category:Zhuang nouns#HON1Category:Zhuang entries with incorrect language header#HON1Category:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-TaiCategory:Zhuang terms inherited from Proto-Tai#HON1Category:Zhuang terms derived from Proto-Tai#HON1 *χɔːŋᴬ (“thing”). Cognate with Thai ของ (kɔ̌ɔng), Northern Thai ᨡᩬᨦ, Lao ຂອງ (khǭng), Lü ᦃᦸᧂ (ẋoang), Tai Dam ꪄꪮꪉ, Shan ၶွင် (khǎung), Zuojiang Zhuang kong.
Noun
hong (1957–1982 spelling hoŋ)Category:Zhuang lemmas#HON1Category:Zhuang nouns#HON1Category:Zhuang terms without Sawndip form#HON1Category:Zhuang entries with incorrect language header#HON1Category:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
- (dialectalCategory:Zhuang dialectal terms#HON1) thing; object
- Synonyms: doenghyiengh, doxgaiq, (dialectal) swhyiengh
Zou
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-ChinCategory:Zou terms inherited from Proto-Kuki-Chin#HONGCategory:Zou terms derived from Proto-Kuki-Chin#HONG *hoŋ. Cognate with Mizo hàwng.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hōŋ]Category:Zou terms with IPA pronunciation#HONG
- Hyphenation: hong
Verb
hong (stem II hòn)Category:Zou lemmas#HONGCategory:Zou verbs#HONGCategory:Zou entries with incorrect language header#HONGCategory:Pages with entries#HONGCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HONG
References
- Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 84
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 47