Kim
See also: kim, kìm, kiṃ, and kim-
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology 1
Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
Proper noun
Kim (plural Kims)
- A unisex given name
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, OCLC 561617680, page 1:
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- Kim McCone ― (name of an Irish linguist)
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- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
- 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.
- 1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16:
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
- 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms
- Kimmi
- Kimmie
- Kimmy
Translations
male given name
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female given name
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Etymology 2
From Korean 김 (gim).
Alternative forms
- Gim
Proper noun
Kim (plural Kims)
- A surname from Korean, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.
- 2020 February 16, Justin McCurry, Nemo Kim, “Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide”, in The Observer:
- Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.
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Translations
Korean surname
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Danish
Etymology
Short form of Joakim.
Proper noun
Kim
- a male given name from Hebrew
References
- Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English Kim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Kim
- Rhymes: -ɪm
- Homophone: kim
Proper noun
Kim f or m
- a unisex given name from English
Anagrams
- mik
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Kim
- a diminutive of the male given name Joachim, from Hebrew
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Norwegian
Etymology
Short form of Joakim.
Proper noun
Kim
- a male given name from Hebrew
Swedish
Proper noun
Kim c (genitive Kims)
- a male given name from Hebrew, shortened from Joakim
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 金 (“gold”)
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- Homophone: kim
Proper noun
Kim
- a surname from Chinese
- a female given name from Chinese
See also
- kim