See also: Jong

English

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Etymology 1

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From Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, fortress, castle; province, district).

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jong (plural jongs)

  1. A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
    • 1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet:
      The rock on which the jong stands must at one time have been lapped by the waters of the lake, but at the present time the Yam-dok tso has retreated so far, that a quashy stretch of vivid green quagmire spreads between the road and the shore.
    • 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Tauris Parke, published 2011, page 211:
      When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 451:
      However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong.
    • 2011, Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas, Osprey, published 2011, page 14:
      The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Afrikaans jong (male servant; boy), from Dutch jongen (young).

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jong (plural jongs)

  1. (South Africa, slang) A friendly term of address, especially for a young man.
    • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 28:
      I take out my pocket knife and start to smooth it. What do you want with that stick says Jan. Nothing. Well throw it away. No jong I am going to keep it.

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Etymology 3

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See djong.

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jong (plural jongs)

  1. Alternative form of djong (type of sailing ship).

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch jongen.

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jong (plural jongens)

  1. A male servant.
  2. (rare) A boy.
    Synonym: seun
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jong

  1. attributive form of jonk

Dutch

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From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Compare German jung, English young, Danish ung, Icelandic ungur.

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jong (comparative jonger, superlative jongst)

  1. young
  2. new

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Declension of jong
uninflected jong
inflected jonge
comparative jonger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial jong jonger het jongst
het jongste
indefinite m./f. sing. jonge jongere jongste
n. sing. jong jonger jongste
plural jonge jongere jongste
definite jonge jongere jongste
partitive jongs jongers

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Descendants

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: junggu
  • Negerhollands: jun
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: jungu
  • Papiamentu: yòn, jonk
  • Saramaccan: njonku

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jong n (plural jongen, diminutive jonkie n or jongske n)

  1. a young: a young being, especially an immature animal

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  • Negerhollands: jong, juṅ
    • Virgin Islands Creole: jun (dated)

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jong

  1. inflection of jongen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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Garo

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Noun

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jong

  1. younger brother

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Javanese

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jong

  1. Romanization of ꦗꦺꦴꦁ

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jong

  1. genitive particle, of
    paralok jong ngamy friend

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch jonc, from Old Dutch jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

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jong

  1. (rare variant) young

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jong m (plural jonges)

  1. boy, young guy
  2. (colloquial, Maastrichtian) a colloquial term of address for a man, along the lines of e.g. mate
    Wie geit 't mèt diech jong?
    How are you doing mate?
  3. A young: a young being, especially an animal.
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jong (masculine jongen, neuter jongt, comparative méi jong, superlative am jéngsten)

  1. (regional, dated) Alternative form of jonk

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Malay

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Possibly from either:

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jong (Jawi spelling جوڠ, plural jong-jong, informal 1st possessive jongku, 2nd possessive jongmu, 3rd possessive jongnya)

  1. Jong (a Javanese-Malay cargo and passenger ship)

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Jong.

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jong

  1. monkey

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40