kim

English Online Dictionary. What means kim‎? What does kim mean?

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kim, from Middle Dutch kimme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəm/

Noun

kim (plural kimme)

1. horizon

   Synonym: horison

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kim]

Noun

kim (Kana spelling キム)

1. mountain

Derived terms

• kimpe (“bear”)

Descendants

• Western Old Japanese: [script needed] (kî)

References

• Bugaeva, Anna. Handbook of the Ainu Language, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kem (“who”). Cognate with Turkish kim, Old Turkic 𐰚𐰢 (kem, “who”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cim]

Pronoun

kim (definite accusative kimi, plural kimlər)

1. who

Declension

Derived terms

• kimlik (“identity”)
• kimsə (“someone”)
  • kimsəsiz (“ownerless, derelict, parentless”)

See also

References

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kem (“who”).

Pronoun

kim

1. who, whom

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːm/, [kʰiːˀm]

Noun

kim c or n (singular definite kimen or kimet, plural indefinite kim, plural definite kimene)

1. germ
2. seeds pl

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kimme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪm/
• Hyphenation: kim
• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: Kim

Noun

kim f (plural kimmen, diminutive kimmetje n)

1. horizon

Synonyms

• horizon

Anagrams

• mik

Eskayan

Pronoun

kim

1. we; us (1st person plural exclusive absolutive form)

Hokkien

Hungarian

Etymology

ki (“who”) +‎ -m (“my, of mine”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkim]
• Hyphenation: kim

Pronoun

kim

1. first-person singular single-possession possessive of ki

   Kim vagy te nekem? - Én nem Kim vagyok, hanem a bácsikád. ― Who of mine are you? - I'm not Kim but your uncle.

Declension

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kem (“who”). Relate to Crimean Tatar kim ,Karachay-Balkar ким (kim) ,Kumyk ким (kim) , Urum ким (kim) ,Tofa ӄум (qum), Tuvan кым (kım), etc.

Pronoun

kim

1. who

References

kim

Khalaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɪm]
• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key): [kɪm]

Pronoun

kim (oblique, plural stem)

1. Alternative form of kêm (“who”).

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kümmen. Akin to Finnish kymmenen.

Numeral

kim

1. ten

Usage notes

In names of tens kim takes on the form kimdõ – declension type 118 – sieldõ. In vīžkimdõ both compound components are declineable, e.g., in genitive vīdkimdõ.

Declension

Related terms

• kimmõz

See also

• Livonian cardinals (1–11):

ikš, kakš, kuolm, nēļa, vīž, kūž, seis, kōdõks, īdõks, kim, ikštuoistõn (Compounds with both parts inflected given in bold)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲim/

Pronoun

kim

1. instrumental of chto
2. locative of chto

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kiːm, from Chinese 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums).

Noun

kim

1. needle

Descendants

• Vietnamese: kim

References

• Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “kim”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kiːm, from Chinese 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums). Cognate with Vietnamese kim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kim¹/

Noun

kim

1. (Mường Bi) needle

References

• Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎^[2], Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kim m (definite singular kimen, indefinite plural kimar, definite plural kimane)

1. Alternative form of kime

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkim/
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: kim

Pronoun

kim

1. instrumental of kto
2. locative of kto

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Kümmel, from Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîm/

Noun

kȉm m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏м)

1. caraway (Persian cumin)

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîːm/

Pronoun

kȋm (Cyrillic spelling ки̑м)

1. (with) whom (instrumental)

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كیم (kim, “who”), from Proto-Turkic *kem (“who”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰢 (kem, “who”), Karakhanid كِمْ (kim, “who”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cim/

Pronoun

kim

1. who

Declension

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kim˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 金 (“metal; gold”).

This reading is irregular, the expected reading would be *câm; cf. cấm < 禁 (MC kimH), cầm < 琴 (MC gim). ⟨-im⟩ is a very rare rime in Sino-Vietnamese proper, with this and the homophonous kim < 今 (MC kim) being the only examples.

It is possible that the usage of kim as the Sino-Vietnamese reading for 金 (MC kim) and 今 (MC kim) was to avoid homophony with câm (“mute”), although it is difficult to be sure. The much less common 衿 (MC kim) (that basically has no usage in Vietnamese) is considered to have the expected reading câm.

Also possibly compare Korean 금 (geum) and 김 (gim), the former is the expected Sino-Korean reading of 金 (MC kim) while the latter found chiefly as a surname.

Noun

kim

1. (rare, only in compounds) metal

2. Metal, one of the Wu Xing

Derived terms

See also

• ngũ hành
• vàng

Etymology 2

From Middle Vietnamese kim, from Proto-Vietic *kiːm. Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 針 (“needle”, SV: châm). Cognate to Muong kim.

Noun

(classifier cây) kim

1. a needle
2. (of a clock/watch) a hand

Derived terms

• mò kim đáy bể

See also

• Kim

Volapük

Pronoun

kim

1. who (nominative)

Inflection

• genitive: kima
• accusative: kimi

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki˩̰/

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 貴 (kʉi^H, “expensive”)

Adjective

kim

1. expensive

See also

• tsis pheejyig

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 跪 (guì) ("to kneel").

Verb

kim

1. to kneel on one knee