hong
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English
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
hong
- (obsolete) 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,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
Etymology 2
From Cantonese 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”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɒŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɔŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Noun
hong (plural hongs)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
See also
etymologicaly unrelated terms
Anagrams
Irish
Noun
hong m
- h-prothesized form of ong
Verb
hong
- h-prothesized form of ong
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *honka. Cognates include Finnish honka.
Pronunciation
Noun
hong
- forest pine
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Mandarin
Romanization
hong
- Nonstandard spelling of hōng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hóng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hǒng.
- Nonstandard spelling of hòng.
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
Pronunciation
Noun
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-Finnic *honka.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Compare Chinese 烘 (hōng), Thai แห้ง (hɛ̂ɛng).
Pronunciation
Verb
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /hoːŋ˨˦/
- Tone numbers: hong1
- Hyphenation: hong
Etymology 1
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)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *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)
Zou
Verb
hong