name
Meaning 1
Obsolete form of Jiang.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kiang
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kjɑŋ/
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/kjæŋ/
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/kiˈɑŋ/
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/kiˈæŋ/
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General-American: kē-ängʹ
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General-American: /kiˈɑŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: kē-ăngʹ
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Received-Pronunciation: /kiˈæŋ/
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rhymes with (General American) -ɑŋ
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rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -æŋ
name
Meaning 2
Synonym of Yangtze, the chief river of central China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Yangtze
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Equus kiang
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wild ass
History
Etymology
A romanization of various ^((please verify)) Chinese words which lack the palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ], which would be rendered jiāng, jiǎng, or jiàng in Mandarin pinyin. Particularly used for Mandarin 江 (Jiāng, “The River”) frequently in specific reference to the Yangtze.
Variant of Jiang.
From Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тибетско диво магаре (tibetsko divo magare) — Equus kiang
- Finnish: kiangi — Equus kiang
- French: kiang — Equus kiang
- Georgian: კიანგი (ḳiangi) — Equus kiang
- German: Kiang — Equus kiang
- German: Tibet-Wildesel — Equus kiang
- Tibetan: རྐྱང (rkyang) — Equus kiang