kukang

English

Noun

kukang (plural kukangs)

  1. (archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.
    • 1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:
      Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.
    • 1895, The Black Cat, volume 1, page 37:
      [] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.

Indonesian

Noun

kukang (plural kukang-kukang, first-person possessive kukangku, second-person possessive kukangmu, third-person possessive kukangnya)

  1. Nonstandard form of kungkang (slow loris).

Polish

kukang

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.kaŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ukaŋk
  • Syllabification: ku‧kang

Noun

kukang m animal

  1. slow loris (any primate of the genus Nycticebus)

Declension

Further reading

  • kukang in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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