kon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kon"

Translingual

Symbol

kon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kongo.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔn/

Verb

kon

1. preterite of kan; could

Atikamekw

Noun

kon anim

1. snow

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *kɔːn, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən; cognate with Koho kon, Vietnamese con, Khasi khun, Khmer កូន (koun), Mon ကွေန် (kon), Car Nicobarese kūön.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːn/

Noun

kon

1. child, offspring

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkon/, [ˈkon̪]

Conjunction

kon

1. Alternative form of kun

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ̃ːn/

Noun

kon m pl

1. plural of ki

Mutation

  Mutation of kon  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	ki	gi	c'hi	unchanged
plural	kon	gon	c'hon	unchanged

Czech

Etymology

Deverbal from konat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkon]

Noun

kon m inan

1. (literary) act

Declension

Declension of kon (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	kon	kony
genitive	konu	konů
dative	konu	konům
accusative	kon	kony
vocative	kone	kony
locative	konu	konech
instrumental	konem	kony

Further reading

• kon in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kon in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔn

• Audio:

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Verb

kon

1. singular past indicative of kunnen

Japanese

Romanization

kon

1. Rōmaji transcription of こん

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish con (“with”), Latin cum (“with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon/

Preposition

kon (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling קון)

1. with

Usage notes

Unlike in Spanish, kon does not combine with pronouns in Ladino. One simply uses kon mi, kon ti, and kon si instead of Spanish conmigo, contigo, and consigo.

Antonyms

• sin

Maia

Etymology

From English.

Noun

kon

1. corn

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese como and Spanish como and Kabuverdianu komo.

Adverb

kon

1. how
2. why

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar). Cognate with Hindi कौन (kaun), Bengali কোন (kōn) and Marathi कोण (koṇ).

Pronoun

kon (oblique kas)

1. who? (interrogative)

   Kon si kothe?

   Who's there?

Sranan Tongo

Verb

kon

1. To arrive.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːn/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Noun

kon c

1. (geometry) a cone
   1. a traffic cone

      Synonyms: trafikkon, vägkon

Declension

Declension of kon
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kon	konen	koner	konerna
Genitive	kons	konens	koners	konernas

Related terms

• konisk

See also

• kägla
• strut

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kon

1. definite singular of ko

References

• kon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English corn.

Noun

kon

1. corn
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[1], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Yola

Noun

kon

1. Alternative form of cooan

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 51