jong

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

• dzong

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dʒɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dʒɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dʒɑŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /jɒŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

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.

• “jong, noun and interjection”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2024.
• Jonathon Green (2024), “jong n.¹”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang

See djong.

• IPA^(key): /dʒɒŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

jong (plural jongs)

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

From Dutch jongen.

• IPA^(key): /jɔŋ/

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jong (plural jongens)

1. A male servant.
2. (rare) A boy.

   Synonym: seun

• jonk

jong

1. attributive form of jonk

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.

• IPA^(key): /jɔŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

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jong (comparative jonger, superlative jongst)

1. young
2. new

• oud

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

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

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

• rotjong

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

jong

1. inflection of jongen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• jongen

jong

1. younger brother

• jonggipa (formal)
• jojong
• angjong

jong

1. Romanization of ꦗꦺꦴꦁ

• IPA^(key): /ɟoŋ/

jong

1. genitive particle, of

   paralok jong nga ― my friend

• jónk (Central Limburgish, East Limburgish, Southeast Limburgish, North Limburgish)
  • joonk (Maastricht)
  • jonk (Southeast Limburgish, Eupen)
• jóng (widespread variant)

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

jong

1. (rare variant) young

• Jong (German-based spelling)
• jonk, Jonk (Southeast Limburgish)

• aajd

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.

• jungske (diminutive)

• IPA^(key): /joŋ/
• Rhymes: -oŋ

jong (masculine jongen, neuter jongt, comparative méi jong, superlative am jéngsten)

1. (regional, dated) Alternative form of jonk

• Jong
• Jongfra

Borrowed from Min Nan 船 (tsûng), from Proto-Min *-džionᴬ (“ship, boat”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lawŋ (“boat”). Compare Old Chinese 船 (OC *ɦljon).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋ/
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒɔŋ, -ɔŋ
• Hyphenation: jong

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)

• > Indonesian: jung (inherited)

• “jong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /ɟoŋ˧/

jong

1. monkey

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