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Symbol

km

  1. (metrology) Symbol for kilometre (kilometer), an SI unit of length equal to 103 metres (meters).
  2. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Khmer.

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Danish

Noun

km

  1. (crochet) Abbreviation of kædemaske.

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

Verb

kmm

 2-lit.

  1. (transitive) to complete
  2. (transitive) to total, to sum up to
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 127–128:
      kmmY2
      n
      n
      Z2
      HfAWI14V20 V20 V20 V20
      V20 V20 V20
      Z1 Z1 Z1
      Z1 Z1
      mmsswA1 B1
      Z2
      A1Hn
      a
      snn
      nw
      wA1 B1
      Z2
      A1
      km.n.n sfḫjw-djw ḥfꜣw m msw.j ḥnꜥ snw.j
      We totalled seventy-five snakes, comprising my children along with my siblings.
Inflection
Conjugation of km (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: km, geminated stem: kmm
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
km
kmw, km
kmt
km, j.km
km, j.km
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
km
ḥr km
m km
r km
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect km.n
kmw, km
consecutive km.jn
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative kmt
perfective3 km
active + .tj1, .tw2
obligative1 km.ḫr
active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective km, j.km1
active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 km
kmm
potentialis1 km.kꜣ
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive km, j.km1
active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect km.n
active + .tj1, .tw2
perfective km
active + .tj1, .tw2
km
kmm, kmmj6, km2, kmw2 5, kmy2 5
imperfective j.km1, km, kmy, kmw5
active + .tj1, .tw2
j.km1, j.kmw1 5, km, kmj6, kmy6
km, kmw5
prospective km, kmtj7
kmtj4, kmt4

1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular.
6 Only in the masculine.
7 Only in the feminine.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Afroasiatic *kum- (to be black).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

kmm
  1. perfective active participle of kmm: black
Inflection
Declension of km (perfective active participle)
masculine feminine
singular km
kmt
dual kmwj
kmtj
plural kmw
kmwt1, kmt2
1 Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
2 From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
Alternative forms

See the ‘Alternative forms’ section under the main verb.

Derived terms

See the ‘Derived terms’ section under the main verb.

Descendants
See also
Colors in Egyptian ·
iwn
n
nwwD3
Z2
(jwnw) (layout · text)
basic colors             
HDD&ra
(ḥḏ)
            
kmmD3
(km)
                
d
S
rG27
(dšr)
                
wADD
Y1
(wꜣḏ)
nonbasic colors         
q
n
it
N33A
(qnjt)
            
xsbDN33C
(ḫsbḏ)
        
iir
t
tywN33C
Z2ss
(jrtjw)

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