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ခင်

See also: ခင်း, ခေါင်း, ချင်း, ချောင်း, and ချင်

Burmese

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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.[1] 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

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. to be friendly with, be loving, be fond of, have an attachment for (someone)
  2. to be favorable, to ready (used in conjunction with မ (ma.))

Noun

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. term of endearment for a woman
  2. (same as အခင် (a.hkang)) reed in a wind instrument

Conjunction

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ခင် • (hkang)

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

Classifier

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. numerical classifier used in counting skeins of wool or cotton

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. ridge (of land, narrow elevation across a surface

Postposition

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. across (the bleak land)

Derived terms

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Etymology 3

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

Noun

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. a stringed musical instrument somewhat like the Burmese ဒုံမင်း (dummang:), but played with bamboo strikers
  2. an instrument such as a harp

Etymology 4

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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

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. (archaic, in compounds) Lord, master
Derived terms
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Proper noun

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ခင် • (hkang)

  1. a unisex given name

References

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  1. ^ 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

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Noun

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ခင် (khaṅ)

  1. Alternative form of ခၚ်

Pa'o Karen

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ခင် (transliteration needed)

  1. leg.
  2. foot.
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