ကောန်

Mon

Pronunciation
  • (Martaban, Myanmar) IPA(key): /kon/[1]
  • (Thailand) IPA(key): /ko(ː)n/[2][3][4]
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Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən (“child”).

Alternative forms

Noun

ကောန် (kon)

  1. child (descendant); cub.[1]
  2. child, offspring, young person, young of animals, son, young shoot of a plant.
    Hyponyms: စးကောန်စဴ (caḥ kon cau), (Pak Kret District) ကောန်စဴ (kon cau)
    ကောန်တြုံ ― kon truĥ ― son[2][4]
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    ကောန်ဗြဴ ― kon brau ― daughter[2]
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    ကောန်ဂၠဴ ― kon glau ― calf[6]
  3. member (of a society).[1]
    ကောန်ကွာန် ― kon kwān ― villager
  4. component.[1]
  5. something minor.[2]
  6. something subordinate[2] (also applied to person).
    ကောန်ရဲ ― kon ray ― subordinate
  7. (Martaban) young person.[1]
Derived terms
  • ကောန်ကၞိတိုန် (kon kni tən)
Nouns

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Thai กล (gon).[2]

Alternative forms

Noun

ကောန် (kon)

  1. magic[2]

References
  1. Diffloth, Gérard (1984) The Dvaravati Old Mon languages and Nyah Kur (Monic Language Studies), Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Printing House
  2. Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) “ကောန်; ကောန်တြုံ; ကောန်ဗြဴ”, in Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎ (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pages 35, 40
  3. Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies‎, volume 26, page 416
  4. จำปี ซือสัตย์ (2007[2008]) “ลูก; ลูกชาย”, in พจนานุกรมไทย-มอญ สำเนียงมอญลพบุรี [Thai-Mon (Lopburi Dialect) Dictionary] (in Thai), ปทุมธานี: วัดจันทน์กะพ้อ, pages 208, 209
  5. Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  6. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 37
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