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English
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”): kung1-fu5.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌŋ ˈfuː/
- IPA(key): (rare) /ˈkʊŋ ˈfuː/
- (rare, emulating Cantonese) IPA(key): /ˈkɔŋ ˈfuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
Noun
kung fu (countable and uncountable, plural kung fu)
- (countable) A Chinese martial art.
- Synonym: wushu
- (martial arts) The Chinese martial arts collectively.
- Synonym: wushu
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- (slang) A mastery of or expertise in a skill
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Derived terms
Translations
martial art
- Arabic: كُونْج فُو m (kung fū)
- Assamese: কুংফু (kuṅphu), কুম্ফু (kumphu)
- Burmese: (please verify) ကွန်ဖူး (kwanhpu:)
- Catalan: kung-fu m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 功夫 (gung1 fu1)
- Hokkien: 功夫 (zh-min-nan) (kang-hu)
- Mandarin: 功夫 (zh) (gōngfu)
- Dutch: kung fu (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: kungfuo
- Estonian: kung-fu
- Finnish: kung-fu
- French: kung-fu (fr) m
- German: Kung-Fu (de) n
- Greek: Κουνγκ-Φου (Koungk-Fou), κουνγκ φου (koungk fou)
- Hebrew: קוּנְג פוּ (he) (kung fu)
- Hindi: कुंग फू (kuṅg phū), कुंग फ़ू (kuṅg fū)
- Hungarian: kung fu (hu)
- Indonesian: kungfu (id)
- Italian: kung fu (it) m
- Japanese: 功夫 (ja) (kanfū), カンフー (kanfū), ゴンフー (gonfū)
- Kazakh: кунг-фу (kuñ-fu)
- Khmer: កុងហ្វូ (kongfou)
- Korean: 쿵후 (kunghu)
- Malay: kung fu
- Nepali: कुङ फू (kuṅ phū)
- Odia: କଙ୍ଗ୍ ଫୁ (kaṅg phu)
- Persian: کونگ فو (fa) (kung fu)
- Polish: kung-fu (pl) n
- Portuguese: kung fu (pt) m
- Romanian: kung-fu
- Russian: кун-фу́ (ru) n (kun-fú), кунфу́ (ru) n (kunfú), кунг-фу́ (ru) n (kung-fú), гунфу́ (ru) n (gunfú)
- Spanish: kung-fu m
- Swedish: kung fu (sv) c
- Tagalog: kung fu
- Thai: กังฟู (th) (gang-fuu)
- Tibetan: དྲག་རྩལ (drag rtsal)
- Uyghur: گۇمپا (gumpa)
- Vietnamese: võ thuật Trung Quốc (武術中國) (literally Chinese wushu), kung fu (vi), công phu (vi) (功夫)
- Yoruba: kọnfú
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Verb
kung fu (third-person singular simple present kung fus, present participle kung fuing, simple past and past participle kung fued)
- To perform kung fu.
Further reading
Portuguese
Noun
kung fu m (uncountable)
- kung fu (Chinese martial art)
Swedish
Noun
kung fu
- kung fu (Chinese martial art)
Jag kan kung fu- I know kung fu
en kung fu-film- a kung fu movie
en kung fu-mästare- a kung fu master
Derived terms
References
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English kung fu, from the Wade–Giles romanization (kung1-fu5) of Mandarin 功夫 (gōngfu, “skill, accomplishment, martial art”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kung fu (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜅ᜔ ᜉᜓ) (martial arts)
- kung fu
Further reading
- “kung fu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018