kang

Borrowed from Chinese 炕.

kang (plural kangs)

1. 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.

2. A large Chinese water jar.

kang (plural kangs)

1. (informal) Clipping of kangaroo.

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

kang (third-person singular simple present kangs, present participle kanging, simple past and past participle kanged)

1. (Android programming, slang) To appropriate someone else's work.

kang (plural kangs or kangz)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (humorous) Pronunciation spelling of king.

• gank, knag

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).

• IPA^(key): /kaːŋ/

kang 

1. (anatomy) chin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/, [ˈkaŋ]

kang (Basahan spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. Alternative form of kan

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/, [ˈkaŋ]

kang (Badlit spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Para kang Tatay kining kamisina.

   This shirt is for Dad.

kang

1. Clipping of ingkang.

kang

1. Clipping of ingkang.

Borrowed from Burmese ကင်း (kang:).

kang

1. customs

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

Contraction of ka +‎ ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/, [ˈkäŋ]

kang

1. used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Bulaklak kang inda.

   Flowers for mom.

Variant of kakak.

• IPA^(key): /kaŋ/
• Rhymes: -kaŋ, -aŋ

kang

1. older sister
2. older sibling (rare)
3. older brother (rare)

• kakak

kang

1. Nonstandard spelling of kāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of káng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of kàng.

• 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.

kang

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

Borrowed from Hokkien 摃／𫼱 (kàng).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ/ [ˈkaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: kang

kang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜅ᜔)

1. (mahjong) a set of four identical tiles