wong

From Old English wang/wong, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish vang.

wong (plural wongs)

1. (obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.

From the pen name Stanford Wong.

wong (third-person singular simple present wongs, present participle wonging, simple past and past participle wonged)

1. (gambling) To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.

• wongable

wong (plural wongs)

1. In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.

• gown

• uwong
• ꦮꦺꦴꦁ

From Old Javanese woṅ, wwaṅ. Possible cognates are Malay orang (“human being”), Acehnese ureung (“human being”), Sundanese urang (“human being”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: wong
• Rhymes: -wɔŋ, -oŋ

wong

1. person, human being
   • 1889, C.F. Winter, Dongèng Wewulang Becik (Volume 1), Landsdrukkerij, p. 7:

     Éliding dongèng mangkéné, rahayu wong kang angèstokaké sarta ngabekti ing Allah, kaya upamané marang bapa.

2. people, society
   • 1928, Dedongèngan, Balé Pustaka, p. 3:

     Ananging kahanan mau ora pati disumurupi utawa diajèni déning wong-wong saka Surakarta, kang padha among seneng mrono saben ing dina Nga'at.

3. adult
   • 1889, C.F. Winter, Dongèng Wewulang Becik (Volume 2), Landsdrukkerij, p. 8:

     Anuli ana wong liwat, acalathu marang bocah kang padha rebutan tali, mangkono iku patuwasé wong dhemen padu kang pinadu barang rèmèh.

   • 1928, R.M. Aryasutirta, Paribasan, p. 21:

     Ana wong sugih, dolan-dolan menyang désa, ing kono kepethuk karo bocah cilik siji, isih wuda mlaku ijèn.

4. successful person
5. physical characteristics of a person
6. subordinate, follower
   • 1880, Pepethikan saking Kitab Suci, p. 179:

     [...] sang tetindhih nulya nabda aglis / hèh Élia sira wongé Allah / paréntahku marang kowé / trang saka dhawuh prabu / lah mudhuna Élia dèn aglis / —

• jalma, janma, manungsa

• "wong" in W. J. S. Poerwadarminta, Bausastra Jawa. J. B. Wolters' Uitgevers-Maatschappij N. V. Groningen, Batavia, 1939

wong m (nominative plural wongas)

1. Alternative spelling of wang