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lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="disambig-see-also">See also: <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">King</a> and <a href="/wiki/king-" title="king-">king-</a></div> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#English">1 English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Alternative_forms">1.1 Alternative forms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Pronunciation">1.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Etymology_1">1.3 Etymology 1</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#Noun">1.3.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-6"><a href="#Synonyms">1.3.1.1 Synonyms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-7"><a href="#Coordinate_terms">1.3.1.2 Coordinate terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-8"><a href="#Derived_terms">1.3.1.3 Derived terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-9"><a href="#Descendants">1.3.1.4 Descendants</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-10"><a href="#Translations">1.3.1.5 Translations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-11"><a href="#See_also">1.3.1.6 See also</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Verb">1.3.2 Verb</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-13"><a href="#Translations_2">1.3.2.1 Translations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Etymology_2">1.4 Etymology 2</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15"><a href="#Noun_2">1.4.1 Noun</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Anagrams">1.5 Anagrams</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Estonian">2 Estonian</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Etymology">2.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Pronunciation_2">2.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Noun_3">2.3 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-21"><a href="#Declension">2.3.1 Declension</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-22"><a href="#Quotations">2.3.2 Quotations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Kapampangan">3 Kapampangan</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="#Alternative_forms_2">3.1 Alternative forms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Pronunciation_3">3.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Preposition">3.3 Preposition</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-27"><a href="#See_also_2">3.3.1 See also</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#Manx">4 Manx</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-29"><a href="#Noun_4">4.1 Noun</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Mutation">4.2 Mutation</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-31"><a href="#Middle_English">5 Middle English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Alternative_forms_3">5.1 Alternative forms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-33"><a href="#Etymology_3">5.2 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-34"><a href="#Pronunciation_4">5.3 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Noun_5">5.4 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-36"><a href="#Derived_terms_2">5.4.1 Derived terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-37"><a href="#Descendants_2">5.4.2 Descendants</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-38"><a href="#References">5.4.3 References</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-39"><a href="#Swedish">6 Swedish</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Etymology_4">6.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-41"><a href="#Adjective">6.2 Adjective</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-42"><a href="#Usage_notes">6.2.1 Usage notes</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#References_2">6.3 References</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-44"><a href="#Tok_Pisin">7 Tok Pisin</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-45"><a href="#Etymology_5">7.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-46"><a href="#Noun_6">7.2 Noun</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-47"><a href="#Yola">8 Yola</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-48"><a href="#Noun_7">8.1 Noun</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-49"><a href="#References_3">8.2 References</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/44px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/king" class="extiw" title="w:king">king</a></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/king" class="extiw" title="w:king">Wikipedia </a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81571951">.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{font-size:90%;width:250px;padding:4px;text-align:left;background:var(--wikt-palette-paleblue,#f9f9f9);border:var(--border-color-base,#aaa)1px solid}@media screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%}}</style> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henry_V_Miniature.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Henry_V_Miniature.jpg/155px-Henry_V_Miniature.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Henry_V_Miniature.jpg/233px-Henry_V_Miniature.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Henry_V_Miniature.jpg/310px-Henry_V_Miniature.jpg 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V" class="extiw" title="w:Henry V">Henry V of England.</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koenig_(Schach).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg/220px-Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg/330px-Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg/440px-Koenig_%28Schach%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The white and black kings (chess)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="王將" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg/130px-Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg/195px-Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg/260px-Shougi_no_koma_oushou.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="561" /></a><figcaption>A king piece in <a href="/wiki/shogi" title="shogi">shogi</a>. Sometimes just <a href="/wiki/%E7%8E%8B" title="王">王</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms">Alternative forms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Alternative forms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/kyng#English" title="kyng">kyng</a>, <a href="/wiki/kynge#English" title="kynge">kynge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/kinge#English" title="kinge">kinge</a> (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a>) <a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">enPR</a>: kĭng; <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): /kɪŋ/ <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio — the king (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" class="extiw" title="w:British English">UK</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="En-uk-the_king.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/En-uk-the_king.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c0/En-uk-the_king.ogg/En-uk-the_king.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:En-uk-the_king.ogg" title="File:En-uk-the king.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a>, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): [kʰiŋ]</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-king.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-king.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-king.ogg/En-us-king.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-king.ogg" title="File:en-us-king.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%AA%C5%8B" title="Rhymes:English/ɪŋ">-ɪŋ</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Etymology 1">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">king</a>, <a href="/wiki/kyng#Middle_English" title="kyng">kyng</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/cyng#Old_English" title="cyng">cyng</a>, <a href="/wiki/cyning#Old_English" title="cyning">cyning</a> (“king”), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-West_Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-West Germanic language">Proto-West Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/kuning" title="Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kuning">*kuning</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kuningaz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kuningaz">*kuningaz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kunungaz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kunungaz">*kunungaz</a> (“king”), equivalent to <a href="/wiki/kin#English" title="kin">kin</a> +‎ <a href="/wiki/-ing#English:_diminutive" title="-ing">-ing</a>. <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#doublet" title="Appendix:Glossary">Doublet</a> of <a href="/wiki/cyning#English" title="cyning">cyning</a> and <a href="/wiki/knez#English" title="knez">knez</a>. Cognate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" class="extiw" title="w:Scots language">Scots</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=keeng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="keeng (page does not exist)">keeng</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Frisian_language" class="extiw" title="w:North Frisian language">North Frisian</a> <a href="/wiki/k%C3%B6ning#North_Frisian" title="köning">köning</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Frisian_language" class="extiw" title="w:West Frisian language">West Frisian</a> <a href="/wiki/kening#West_Frisian" title="kening">kening</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language" class="extiw" title="w:Dutch language">Dutch</a> <a href="/wiki/koning#Dutch" title="koning">koning</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German" class="extiw" title="w:Low German">Low German</a> <a href="/wiki/Koning#Low_German" title="Koning">Koning</a>, <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ning#Low_German" title="Köning">Köning</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" class="extiw" title="w:German language">German</a> <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nig#German" title="König">König</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Danish language">Danish</a> <a href="/wiki/konge#Danish" title="konge">konge</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> <a href="/wiki/konge#Norwegian" title="konge">konge</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Swedish language">Swedish</a> <a href="/wiki/konung#Swedish" title="konung">konung</a>, <a href="/wiki/kung#Swedish" title="kung">kung</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Icelandic language">Icelandic</a> <a href="/wiki/konungur#Icelandic" title="konungur">konungur</a>, <a href="/wiki/k%C3%B3ngur#Icelandic" title="kóngur">kóngur</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Polish language">Polish</a> <a href="/wiki/ksi%C4%85dz#Polish" title="ksiądz">ksiądz</a> (“priest”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Russian language">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8C#Russian" title="князь">князь</a> (knjazʹ, “prince”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic" class="extiw" title="w:Old Church Slavonic">Old Church Slavonic</a> <a href="/wiki/%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BD%D1%A7%D1%95%D1%8C#Old_Church_Slavonic" title="кънѧѕь">кънѧѕь</a> (kŭnędzĭ), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Romanian language">Romanian</a> <a href="/wiki/chinez#Romanian" title="chinez">chinez</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Finnish language">Finnish</a> <a href="/wiki/kuningas#Finnish" title="kuningas">kuningas</a> (“king”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Estonian language">Estonian</a> <a href="/wiki/kuningas#Estonian" title="kuningas">kuningas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Ingrian language">Ingrian</a> <a href="/wiki/kunigas#Ingrian" title="kunigas">kunigas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Karelian language">Karelian</a> <a href="/wiki/kuninkas#Karelian" title="kuninkas">kuninkas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livvi-Karelian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Livvi-Karelian language">Livvi</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=ku%C5%84ingas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kuńingas (page does not exist)">kuńingas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Ludic language">Ludian</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=ku%C5%84ingas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kuńingas (page does not exist)">kuńingas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veps_language" class="extiw" title="w:Veps language">Veps</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kuningaz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kuningaz (page does not exist)">kuningaz</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5ro_language" class="extiw" title="w:Võro language">Võro</a> <a href="/wiki/kuning#Võro" title="kuning">kuning</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Votic language">Votic</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kunikaz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kunikaz (page does not exist)">kunikaz</a>. Eclipsed non-native <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/roy#Middle_English" title="roy">roy</a> (“king”) (Early Modern English <a href="/wiki/roy#English" title="roy">roy</a>), borrowed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a> <a href="/wiki/roi#Old_French" title="roi">roi</a>, <a href="/wiki/rei#Old_French" title="rei">rei</a>, <a href="/wiki/rai#Old_French" title="rai">rai</a> (“king”). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king (plural <a href="/wiki/kings#English" title="kings">kings</a>) <ol><li>A male <a href="/wiki/monarch" title="monarch">monarch</a>; a <a href="/wiki/man" title="man">man</a> who <a href="/wiki/head" title="head">heads</a> a <a href="/wiki/monarchy" title="monarchy">monarchy</a>; in an <a href="/wiki/absolute_monarchy" title="absolute monarchy">absolute monarchy</a>, the supreme <a href="/wiki/ruler" title="ruler">ruler</a> of his <a href="/wiki/nation" title="nation">nation</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/monarch" title="monarch">monarch</a> with the most <a href="/wiki/power" title="power">power</a> and <a href="/wiki/authority" title="authority">authority</a> in a <a href="/wiki/monarchy" title="monarchy">monarchy</a>, regardless of sex. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1891 January 3, ““King” Wilhelmina”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" class="extiw" title="w:Chicago Tribune">The Chicago Daily Tribune</a></cite>, volume LI, number III, Chicago, Ill., page 5, column 7:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man. […] And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Booth" class="extiw" title="w:Charlotte Booth">Charlotte Booth</a>, “Hatshepsut”, in <cite>The Curse of the Mummy and Other Mysteries of Ancient Egypt</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneworld_Publications" class="extiw" title="w:Oneworld Publications">Oneworld Publications</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85168-606-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85168-606-3">→ISBN</a>, page 93:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2011, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nwando_Achebe" class="extiw" title="w:Nwando Achebe">Nwando Achebe</a>, “Mgbapu Ahebi: Exile in Igalaland, ca. 1895–1916”, in <cite>The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe</cite>, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Indiana University Press">Indiana University Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-253-22248-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-253-22248-0">→ISBN</a>, pages 63–64:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The act of perforating one’s ears could be read as a gendering performance—a modification from an overt masculinity (king) to a tempered female masculinity (king with female traits)—in which the male king was expected to adopt the quintessence of Omeppa’s female king wife, Ebulejonu, and by so doing, embody the true essence of womanhood. […] Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later. […] This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/powerful" title="powerful">powerful</a> or majorly <a href="/wiki/influential" title="influential">influential</a> person. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1907 August, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Chambers" class="extiw" title="w:Robert W. Chambers">Robert W[illiam] Chambers</a>, chapter I, in <cite>The Younger Set</cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Appleton_%26_Company" class="extiw" title="w:D. Appleton & Company">D. Appleton & Company</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/24962326">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came […] and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. […]"</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2014 June 21, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last">Magician’s brain</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist" class="extiw" title="w:The Economist">The Economist</a></cite>, volume 411, number 8892:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> or <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a>) Something that has a <a href="/wiki/preeminent" title="preeminent">preeminent</a> position. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">In times of financial panic, cash is king.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/mr-plow,75560/">TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)</a>”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/component" title="component">component</a> of certain <a href="/wiki/game" title="game">games</a>. <ol><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_Q138">(<a href="/wiki/chess" title="chess">chess</a>) The principal <a href="/wiki/chess_piece" title="chess piece">chess piece</a>, that players seek to <a href="/wiki/threaten" title="threaten">threaten</a> with unavoidable <a href="/wiki/capture" title="capture">capture</a> to result in a victory by <a href="/wiki/checkmate" title="checkmate">checkmate</a>. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic <a href="/wiki/crown" title="crown">crown</a> with a <a href="/wiki/cross" title="cross">cross</a> at the top.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li><li class="senseid" id="English:_Q516114">(<a href="/wiki/card_game" title="card game">card games</a>) A <a href="/wiki/playing_card" title="playing card">playing card</a> with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the <a href="/wiki/thirteenth" title="thirteenth">thirteenth</a> card in a given <a href="/wiki/suit" title="suit">suit</a>. <dl><dd>Hypernym: <a href="/wiki/court_card#English" title="court card">court card</a></dd></dl></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/checker" title="checker">checker</a> (a piece of <a href="/wiki/checkers" title="checkers">checkers</a>/<a href="/wiki/draughts" title="draughts">draughts</a>) that reached the farthest <a href="/wiki/row" title="row">row</a> forward, thus becoming <a href="/wiki/crowned" title="crowned">crowned</a> (either by turning it upside-down, or by <a href="/wiki/stack" title="stack">stacking</a> another <a href="/wiki/checker" title="checker">checker</a> on it) and gaining more <a href="/wiki/freedom" title="freedom">freedom</a> of <a href="/wiki/movement" title="movement">movement</a>.</li> <li>The central <a href="/wiki/pin" title="pin">pin</a> or <a href="/wiki/skittle" title="skittle">skittle</a> in bowling games. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1878, John Henry Walsh, <cite>British Rural Sports</cite>, page 712:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">In <a href="/wiki/knockemdowns#English" title="knockemdowns">knockemdowns</a> and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li> <li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English" class="extiw" title="w:British English">UK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a>) A <a href="/wiki/king_skin" title="king skin">king skin</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Oi mate, have you got kings?</div></dd></dl></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/male" title="male">male</a> <a href="/wiki/dragonfly" title="dragonfly">dragonfly</a>; a <a href="/wiki/drake" title="drake">drake</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/king-sized" title="king-sized">king-sized</a> <a href="/wiki/bed" title="bed">bed</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2002, Scott W. Donkin, Gerard Meyer, <cite>Peak Performance: Body and Mind</cite>, page 119:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/graph_theory" title="graph theory">graph theory</a>) A <a href="/wiki/vertex" title="vertex">vertex</a> in a <a href="/wiki/directed_graph" title="directed graph">directed graph</a> which can <a href="/wiki/reach" title="reach">reach</a> every other vertex via a <a href="/wiki/path" title="path">path</a> with a <a href="/wiki/length" title="length">length</a> of at most 2.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Synonyms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rex#English" title="Rex">Rex</a> (the reigning king, formal), <a href="/wiki/roy#English" title="roy">roy</a> (obsolete, formal)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Coordinate_terms">Coordinate terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Coordinate terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>(monarch): <a href="/wiki/caesar#English" title="caesar">caesar</a>, <a href="/wiki/emperor#English" title="emperor">emperor</a>, <a href="/wiki/empress#English" title="empress">empress</a>, <a href="/wiki/kaiser#English" title="kaiser">kaiser</a>, <a href="/wiki/maharajah#English" title="maharajah">maharajah</a>, <a href="/wiki/prince#English" title="prince">prince</a>, <a href="/wiki/princess#English" title="princess">princess</a>, <a href="/wiki/queen#English" title="queen">queen</a>, <a href="/wiki/regent#English" title="regent">regent</a>, <a href="/wiki/royalty#English" title="royalty">royalty</a>, <a href="/wiki/shah#English" title="shah">shah</a>, <a href="/wiki/tsar#English" title="tsar">tsar</a>, <a href="/wiki/viceroy#English" title="viceroy">viceroy</a></li> <li>(playing card): <a href="/wiki/ace#English" title="ace">ace</a>, <a href="/wiki/jack#English" title="jack">jack</a>, <a href="/wiki/joker#English" title="joker">joker</a>, <a href="/wiki/queen#English" title="queen">queen</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="4"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/a_cat_can_look_at_a_king#English" title="a cat can look at a king">a cat can look at a king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/a_cat_may_look_at_a_king#English" title="a cat may look at a king">a cat may look at a king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/antiking#English" title="antiking">antiking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/archking#English" title="archking">archking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/bean_king#English" title="bean king">bean king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/blue_king_crab#English" title="blue king crab">blue king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/brown_king_crab#English" title="brown king crab">brown king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/California_king#English" title="California king">California king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/cash_is_king#English" title="cash is king">cash is king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charlton_Kings#English" title="Charlton Kings">Charlton Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/chicken_%C3%A0_la_King#English" title="chicken à la King">chicken à la King</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/chicken_%C3%A0_la_king#English" title="chicken à la king">chicken à la king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_king_crab#English" title="Chilean king crab">Chilean king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/client_king#English" title="client king">client king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/complain_king#English" title="complain king">complain king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/divine_right_of_kings#English" title="divine right of kings">divine right of kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/drag_king#English" title="drag king">drag king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/dragonking#English" title="dragonking">dragonking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/drama_king#English" title="drama king">drama king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/elf_king#English" title="elf king">elf king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/elf-king#English" title="elf-king">elf-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/erl-king#English" title="erl-king">erl-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/every_king_needs_a_queen#English" title="every king needs a queen">every king needs a queen</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/fit_for_a_king#English" title="fit for a king">fit for a king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/foreking#English" title="foreking">foreking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/ghostking#English" title="ghostking">ghostking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/god_king#English" title="god king">god king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/god-king#English" title="god-king">god-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/God_Save_the_King#English" title="God Save the King">God Save the King</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/golden_king_crab#English" title="golden king crab">golden king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/good-king-henry#English" title="good-king-henry">good-king-henry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Good_King_Henry#English" title="Good King Henry">Good King Henry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/high-king#English" title="high-king">high-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/high_king#English" title="high king">high king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/history_of_the_four_kings#English" title="history of the four kings">history of the four kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Homecoming_King#English" title="Homecoming King">Homecoming King</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_the_land_of_the_blind,_the_one-eyed_man_is_king#English" title="in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king">in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_and_Queen_County#English" title="King and Queen County">King and Queen County</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_and_Queen_Court_House#English" title="King and Queen Court House">King and Queen Court House</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Arthur#English" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-at-arms#English" title="king-at-arms">king-at-arms</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Billy#English" title="King Billy">King Billy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingbird#English" title="kingbird">kingbird</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingbolt#English" title="kingbolt">kingbolt</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_brown#English" title="king brown">king brown</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_cab#English" title="king cab">king cab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_cake#English" title="king cake">king cake</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_card#English" title="king card">king card</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Charles_Land#English" title="King Charles Land">King Charles Land</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Charles%27s_head#English" title="King Charles's head">King Charles's head</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Charles_spaniel#English" title="King Charles spaniel">King Charles spaniel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_cheetah#English" title="king cheetah">king cheetah</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_cobra#English" title="king cobra">king cobra</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_consort#English" title="king consort">king consort</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Cotton#English" title="King Cotton">King Cotton</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-count#English" title="king-count">king-count</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Country#English" title="King Country">King Country</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_crab#English" title="king crab">king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingcraft#English" title="kingcraft">kingcraft</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_cricket#English" title="king cricket">king cricket</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingcroaker#English" title="kingcroaker">kingcroaker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_crow#English" title="king crow">king crow</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingcup#English" title="kingcup">kingcup</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_David%27s_harp#English" title="King David's harp">King David's harp</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingdom#English" title="kingdom">kingdom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Edward#English" title="King Edward">King Edward</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_eider#English" title="king eider">king eider</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_fern#English" title="king fern">king fern</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingfish#English" title="kingfish">kingfish</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingfisher#English" title="kingfisher">kingfisher</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_fox#English" title="king fox">king fox</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_George#English" title="King George">King George</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_George_County#English" title="King George County">King George County</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_George_whiting#English" title="King George whiting">King George whiting</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-hell#English" title="king-hell">king-hell</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-hit#English" title="king-hit">king-hit</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_hit#English" title="king hit">king hit</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kinghood#English" title="kinghood">kinghood</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingian#English" title="Kingian">Kingian</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingite#English" title="kingite">kingite</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_James_Bible#English" title="King James Bible">King James Bible</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_James_Version#English" title="King James Version">King James Version</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Kong#English" title="King Kong">King Kong</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kinglet#English" title="kinglet">kinglet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kinglike#English" title="kinglike">kinglike</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingling#English" title="kingling">kingling</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kinglist#English" title="kinglist">kinglist</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_mackerel#English" title="king mackerel">king mackerel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingmaker#English" title="kingmaker">kingmaker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingmaking#English" title="kingmaking">kingmaking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Mob#English" title="King Mob">King Mob</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingo#English" title="Kingo">Kingo</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_all_one_surveys#English" title="king of all one surveys">king of all one surveys</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_arms#English" title="king of arms">king of arms</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-of-arms#English" title="king-of-arms">king-of-arms</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_beasts#English" title="king of beasts">king of beasts</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_birds#English" title="king of birds">king of birds</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_clubs#English" title="king of clubs">king of clubs</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_diamonds#English" title="king of diamonds">king of diamonds</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_hearts#English" title="king of hearts">king of hearts</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_herrings#English" title="king of herrings">king of herrings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_insects#English" title="king of insects">king of insects</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_kings#English" title="king of kings">king of kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Kings#English" title="King of Kings">King of Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_metals#English" title="king of metals">king of metals</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Pop#English" title="King of Pop">King of Pop</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_six#English" title="king of six">king of six</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_spades#English" title="king of spades">king of spades</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_spices#English" title="king of spices">king of spices</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_castle#English" title="king of the castle">king of the castle</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_doos#English" title="king of the doos">king of the doos</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_forest#English" title="king of the forest">king of the forest</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_hill#English" title="king of the hill">king of the hill</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_mountains#English" title="king of the mountains">king of the mountains</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_the_north#English" title="king of the north">king of the north</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-of-the-salmon#English" title="king-of-the-salmon">king-of-the-salmon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_oyster_mushroom#English" title="king oyster mushroom">king oyster mushroom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_pair#English" title="king pair">king pair</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_parrot#English" title="king parrot">king parrot</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_penguin#English" title="king penguin">king penguin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingpin#English" title="kingpin">kingpin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_post#English" title="king post">king post</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_prawn#English" title="king prawn">king prawn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_rail#English" title="king rail">king rail</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingric#English" title="kingric">kingric</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings#English" title="Kings">Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_salmon#English" title="king salmon">king salmon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Salmon#English" title="King Salmon">King Salmon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingsbury#English" title="Kingsbury">Kingsbury</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Caple#English" title="King's Caple">King's Caple</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Cliffe#English" title="King's Cliffe">King's Cliffe</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Counsel#English" title="King's Counsel">King's Counsel</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_County#English" title="Kings County">Kings County</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Cross#English" title="King's Cross">King's Cross</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Daughters#English" title="King's Daughters">King's Daughters</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Dyke#English" title="King's Dyke">King's Dyke</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_English#English" title="King's English">King's English</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king%27s_evil#English" title="king's evil">king's evil</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Gambit#English" title="King's Gambit">King's Gambit</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_Heath#English" title="Kings Heath">Kings Heath</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingship#English" title="kingship">kingship</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_shit_of_fuck_mountain#English" title="king shit of fuck mountain">king shit of fuck mountain</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_Shit_of_Turd_Island#English" title="King Shit of Turd Island">King Shit of Turd Island</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingside#English" title="kingside">kingside</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Indian_Defence#English" title="King's Indian Defence">King's Indian Defence</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_size#English" title="king size">king size</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-size#English" title="king-size">king-size</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king-sized#English" title="king-sized">king-sized</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_skin#English" title="king skin">king skin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king%27s_knight%27s_pawn#English" title="king's knight's pawn">king's knight's pawn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_Langley#English" title="Kings Langley">Kings Langley</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingslayer#English" title="kingslayer">kingslayer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Lynn#English" title="King's Lynn">King's Lynn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingsman#English" title="kingsman">kingsman</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Meaburn#English" title="King's Meaburn">King's Meaburn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_snake#English" title="king snake">king snake</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingsnake#English" title="kingsnake">kingsnake</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_Norton#English" title="Kings Norton">Kings Norton</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Norton#English" title="King's Norton">King's Norton</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Nympton#English" title="King's Nympton">King's Nympton</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Park#English" title="King's Park">King's Park</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king%27s_pawn#English" title="king's pawn">king's pawn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king%27s_ransom#English" title="king's ransom">king's ransom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king%27s_rook%27s_pawn#English" title="king's rook's pawn">king's rook's pawn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_shilling#English" title="King's shilling">King's shilling</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Somborne#English" title="King's Somborne">King's Somborne</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Sutton#English" title="King's Sutton">King's Sutton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kings_Sutton#English" title="Kings Sutton">Kings Sutton</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingston#English" title="Kingston">Kingston</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingstown#English" title="Kingstown">Kingstown</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingstree#English" title="Kingstree">Kingstree</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kings_Worthy#English" title="Kings Worthy">Kings Worthy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_tide#English" title="king tide">king tide</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_trumpet_mushroom#English" title="king trumpet mushroom">king trumpet mushroom</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/king_vulture#English" title="king vulture">king vulture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingward#English" title="kingward">kingward</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingwards#English" title="kingwards">kingwards</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_William#English" title="King William">King William</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_William_County#English" title="King William County">King William County</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/King_William_pine#English" title="King William pine">King William pine</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingwood#English" title="kingwood">kingwood</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingy#English" title="kingy">kingy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/live_like_a_king#English" title="live like a king">live like a king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mad_King_George#English" title="Mad King George">Mad King George</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/make-king#English" title="make-king">make-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/merking#English" title="merking">merking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/more_royalist_than_the_king#English" title="more royalist than the king">more royalist than the king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_king_shag#English" title="New Zealand king shag">New Zealand king shag</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/nonking#English" title="nonking">nonking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/one-eyed_king#English" title="one-eyed king">one-eyed king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/overking#English" title="overking">overking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/palm_king#English" title="palm king">palm king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/pearly_king#English" title="pearly king">pearly king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/philosopher_king#English" title="philosopher king">philosopher king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/philosopher-king#English" title="philosopher-king">philosopher-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/priest-king#English" title="priest-king">priest-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/prom_king#English" title="prom king">prom king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/pumpking#English" title="pumpking">pumpking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/rat_king#English" title="rat king">rat king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/red_king_crab#English" title="red king crab">red king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/rice_king#English" title="rice king">rice king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sea_king#English" title="sea king">sea king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Shelsley_Kings#English" title="Shelsley Kings">Shelsley Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Shelsley_Kings#English" title="Shelsley Kings">Shelsley Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/shepherd_king#English" title="shepherd king">shepherd king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/shepherd_kings#English" title="shepherd kings">shepherd kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/short_king#English" title="short king">short king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/snail_king#English" title="snail king">snail king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sofa_king#English" title="sofa king">sofa king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/southern_king_crab#English" title="southern king crab">southern king crab</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sport_of_kings#English" title="sport of kings">sport of kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/squirrel_king#English" title="squirrel king">squirrel king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/subking#English" title="subking">subking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/suicide_king#English" title="suicide king">suicide king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Tchang-king#English" title="Tchang-king">Tchang-king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Three_Kings#English" title="Three Kings">Three Kings</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Three_Kings_Islands#English" title="Three Kings Islands">Three Kings Islands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/underking#English" title="underking">underking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/unking#English" title="unking">unking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/who_died_and_made_you_king#English" title="who died and made you king">who died and made you king</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/woman_king#English" title="woman king">woman king</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Descendants">Descendants</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Descendants">edit</a>]</div> <div class="derivedterms ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"> <ul><li>Tok Pisin: <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Tok_Pisin">king</a><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r68481116">.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}</style></li> <li>⇒ American Sign Language: <a href="/wiki/K@Shoulder_K@Abdomen#American_Sign_Language" title="K@Shoulder K@Abdomen">K@Shoulder K@Abdomen</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Burmese: <a href="/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA#Burmese" title="ကင်">ကင်</a> (kang)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Isubu: <a href="/wiki/kinge#Isubu" title="kinge">kinge</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Japanese: <a href="/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0#Japanese" title="キング">キング</a> (kingu)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Korean: <a href="/wiki/%ED%82%B9#Korean" title="킹">킹</a> (king)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Maori: <a href="/wiki/kingi#Maori" title="kingi">kingi</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Marshallese: <a href="/wiki/kiin%CC%84#Marshallese" title="kiin̄">kiin̄</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>→ Thai: <a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87#Thai" title="คิง">คิง</a> (king)<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align: left;">See <a href="/wiki/king/translations#Noun" title="king/translations">king/translations § Noun</a>.</div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="See_also">See also</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%E2%99%94#Translingual" title="♔">♔</a>, <a href="/wiki/%E2%99%9A#Translingual" title="♚">♚</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 800px"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Chess_pieces" title="Appendix:Chess pieces">Chess pieces</a> in English · <a href="/wiki/chess_piece#English" title="chess piece">chess pieces</a>, <a href="/wiki/chessman#English" title="chessman">chessmen</a> (see also: <a href="/wiki/chess#English" title="chess">chess</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Template:table:chess_pieces" title="Template:table:chess pieces">layout</a> · <a href="/wiki/Template:table:chess_pieces/en" title="Template:table:chess pieces/en">text</a>) </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_klt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♚" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chess_klt45.svg/30px-Chess_klt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chess_klt45.svg/45px-Chess_klt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Chess_klt45.svg/60px-Chess_klt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_qlt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♛" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Chess_qlt45.svg/30px-Chess_qlt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Chess_qlt45.svg/45px-Chess_qlt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Chess_qlt45.svg/60px-Chess_qlt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_rlt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♜" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Chess_rlt45.svg/30px-Chess_rlt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Chess_rlt45.svg/45px-Chess_rlt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Chess_rlt45.svg/60px-Chess_rlt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_blt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♝" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Chess_blt45.svg/30px-Chess_blt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Chess_blt45.svg/45px-Chess_blt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Chess_blt45.svg/60px-Chess_blt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_nlt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♞" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Chess_nlt45.svg/30px-Chess_nlt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Chess_nlt45.svg/45px-Chess_nlt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Chess_nlt45.svg/60px-Chess_nlt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 16%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Chess_plt45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="♟" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Chess_plt45.svg/30px-Chess_plt45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Chess_plt45.svg/45px-Chess_plt45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Chess_plt45.svg/60px-Chess_plt45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="45" data-file-height="45" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">king </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/queen#English" title="queen">queen</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/rook#English" title="rook">rook</a>, <a href="/wiki/castle#English" title="castle">castle</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/bishop#English" title="bishop">bishop</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/knight#English" title="knight">knight</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/pawn#English" title="pawn">pawn</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width: 800px"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="7">Playing cards in English · <a href="/wiki/playing_card#English" title="playing card">playing cards</a> (<a href="/wiki/Template:table:playing_cards" title="Template:table:playing cards">layout</a> · <a href="/wiki/Template:table:playing_cards/en" title="Template:table:playing cards/en">text</a>) </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Ace_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ace_of_spades.svg/40px-Ace_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ace_of_spades.svg/60px-Ace_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ace_of_spades.svg/80px-Ace_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:2_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/2_of_spades.svg/40px-2_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/2_of_spades.svg/60px-2_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/2_of_spades.svg/80px-2_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:3_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/3_of_spades.svg/40px-3_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/3_of_spades.svg/60px-3_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/3_of_spades.svg/80px-3_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:4_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/4_of_spades.svg/40px-4_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/4_of_spades.svg/60px-4_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/4_of_spades.svg/80px-4_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:5_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/5_of_spades.svg/40px-5_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/5_of_spades.svg/60px-5_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/5_of_spades.svg/80px-5_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:6_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/6_of_spades.svg/40px-6_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/6_of_spades.svg/60px-6_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/6_of_spades.svg/80px-6_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 14%; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:7_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/7_of_spades.svg/40px-7_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="58" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/7_of_spades.svg/60px-7_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/7_of_spades.svg/80px-7_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/ace#English" title="ace">ace</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/deuce#English" title="deuce">deuce</a>, <a href="/wiki/two#English" title="two">two</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/three#English" title="three">three</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/four#English" title="four">four</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/five#English" title="five">five</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/six#English" title="six">six</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/seven#English" title="seven">seven</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:8_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/8_of_spades.svg/50px-8_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/8_of_spades.svg/75px-8_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/8_of_spades.svg/100px-8_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:9_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/9_of_spades.svg/50px-9_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/9_of_spades.svg/75px-9_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/9_of_spades.svg/100px-9_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:10_of_spades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/10_of_spades.svg/50px-10_of_spades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/10_of_spades.svg/75px-10_of_spades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/10_of_spades.svg/100px-10_of_spades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Jack_of_spades2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Jack_of_spades2.svg/50px-Jack_of_spades2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Jack_of_spades2.svg/75px-Jack_of_spades2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Jack_of_spades2.svg/100px-Jack_of_spades2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_of_spades2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Queen_of_spades2.svg/50px-Queen_of_spades2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Queen_of_spades2.svg/75px-Queen_of_spades2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Queen_of_spades2.svg/100px-Queen_of_spades2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:King_of_spades2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/King_of_spades2.svg/50px-King_of_spades2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/King_of_spades2.svg/75px-King_of_spades2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/King_of_spades2.svg/100px-King_of_spades2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="209" data-file-height="303" /></a> </td> <td style="text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/File:Joker_black_02.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Joker_black_02.svg/50px-Joker_black_02.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Joker_black_02.svg/75px-Joker_black_02.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Joker_black_02.svg/100px-Joker_black_02.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="167" data-file-height="243" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/eight#English" title="eight">eight</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/nine#English" title="nine">nine</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/ten#English" title="ten">ten</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/jack#English" title="jack">jack</a>, <a href="/wiki/knave#English" title="knave">knave</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/queen#English" title="queen">queen</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center">king </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center"><a href="/wiki/joker#English" title="joker">joker</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; text-align: center"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4">Suits in English · <a href="/wiki/suit#English" title="suit">suits</a> (see also: <a href="/wiki/card#English" title="card">cards</a>, <a href="/wiki/playing_card#English" title="playing card">playing cards</a>) (<a href="/wiki/Template:table:suits" title="Template:table:suits">layout</a> · <a href="/wiki/Template:table:suits/en" title="Template:table:suits/en">text</a>) </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 25%;"><a href="/wiki/File:Suit_Hearts_(open_clipart).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg/20px-Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg/30px-Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg/40px-Suit_Hearts_%28open_clipart%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="208" data-file-height="206" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 25%;"><a href="/wiki/File:SuitDiamonds.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/SuitDiamonds.svg/20px-SuitDiamonds.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/SuitDiamonds.svg/30px-SuitDiamonds.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/SuitDiamonds.svg/40px-SuitDiamonds.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="260" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 25%;"><a href="/wiki/File:SuitSpades.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/SuitSpades.svg/20px-SuitSpades.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/SuitSpades.svg/30px-SuitSpades.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/SuitSpades.svg/40px-SuitSpades.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="260" /></a> </td> <td style="width: 25%;"><a href="/wiki/File:SuitClubs.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/SuitClubs.svg/20px-SuitClubs.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/SuitClubs.svg/30px-SuitClubs.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/SuitClubs.svg/40px-SuitClubs.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="260" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/hearts#English" title="hearts">hearts</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/diamonds#English" title="diamonds">diamonds</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/spades#English" title="spades">spades</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/clubs#English" title="clubs">clubs</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb">Verb</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> king (third-person singular simple present <a href="/wiki/kings#English" title="kings">kings</a>, present participle <a href="/wiki/kinging#English" title="kinging">kinging</a>, simple past and past participle <a href="/wiki/kinged#English" title="kinged">kinged</a>) <ol><li>To <a href="/wiki/crown" title="crown">crown</a> king, to make (a person) king. <ul><li>1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lN4KAQAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=42MYTpSCKa7smAW4q9kR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTg8">page 16</a>, <dl><dd>The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .</dd></dl></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2008, William Shakespeare, edited by A. R. Braunmuller, <cite>Macbeth</cite>, Introduction, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ujpDPuoQCugC&pg=PA24&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=oHsYTtOzFqyemQXKpqgC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjjIAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false">page 24</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To rule over as king. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" class="extiw" title="w:Henry V (play)">The Life of Henry the Fift</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act II, scene iv]:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To perform the duties of a king. <ul><li>1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tNHNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=a2sYTr7mGfDRmAWpn5kn&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjha">page 675</a>, <dl><dd>He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.</dd></dl></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2001, Chip R. Bell, <cite>Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning</cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Muu2Fb4JYtcC&pg=PA6&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=oHsYTtOzFqyemQXKpqgC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCDjIAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false">page 6</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To <a href="/wiki/assume" title="assume">assume</a> or <a href="/wiki/pretend" title="pretend">pretend</a> <a href="/wiki/preeminence" title="preeminence">preeminence</a> (over); to <a href="/wiki/lord_it_over" title="lord it over">lord it over</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1917, Edna Ferber, <cite>Fanny Herself</cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xLoqDnHULCIC&pg=PA32&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=54gYTtP2K8b-mAWP6vwg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwATjcAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false">page 32</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To promote a piece of <a href="/wiki/draughts" title="draughts">draughts</a>/<a href="/wiki/checkers" title="checkers">checkers</a> that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1957, Bertram Vivian Bowden, editor, <cite>Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines</cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HcIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=l2YYTv67Ga_3mAXHu4T7Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDhG">page 302</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1986, Rick DeMarinis, <cite>The Burning Women of Far Cry</cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bT3lAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=BncYTqSEEczzmAXU6dykDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTiWAQ">page 100</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back […] .</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To dress and perform as a <a href="/wiki/drag_king" title="drag king">drag king</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2008, Audrey Yue, “King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia”, in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland, editors, <cite>AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities</cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PssO1pfKDtwC&pg=PA266&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=kVoYTpXkNofMmAXHjoS1CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false">page 266</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations_2">Translations</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-in_checkers"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">in checkers</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="in checkers"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Catalan: <a href="/wiki/coronar#Catalan" title="coronar">coronar</a> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/coronar" class="extiw" title="ca:coronar">(ca)</a></li> <li>Galician: <a href="/wiki/coroar#Galician" title="coroar">coroar</a> <a href="https://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/coroar" class="extiw" title="gl:coroar">(gl)</a></li> <li>Hungarian: <a href="/wiki/kir%C3%A1ly#Hungarian" title="király">király</a> <a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/kir%C3%A1ly" class="extiw" title="hu:király">(hu)</a> <abbr title="singular number">sg</abbr></li> <li>Italian: <a href="/w/index.php?title=fare_dama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="fare dama (page does not exist)">fare dama</a></li> <li>Romanian: <a href="/wiki/%C3%AEncorona#Romanian" title="încorona">încorona</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%AEncorona" class="extiw" title="ro:încorona">(ro)</a></li> <li>Spanish: <a href="/wiki/coronar#Spanish" title="coronar">coronar</a> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/coronar" class="extiw" title="es:coronar">(es)</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Etymology 2">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_2">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king (plural <a href="/wiki/kings#English" title="kings">kings</a>) <ol><li>Alternative form of <a href="/wiki/qing#English" title="qing">qing</a> (“Chinese musical instrument”)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Anagrams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/gink#English" title="gink">gink</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Estonian">Estonian</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Estonian">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Finnic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Finnic language">Proto-Finnic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kenk%C3%A4" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic/kenkä">*kenkä</a>. Cognate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Finnish language">Finnish</a> <a href="/wiki/kenk%C3%A4#Finnish" title="kenkä">kenkä</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Estonian phonology">key</a>): /ˈkinɡ̊/, [ˈkiŋɡ̊]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_3">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king (genitive <a href="/wiki/kinga#Estonian" title="kinga">kinga</a>, partitive <a href="/wiki/kinga#Estonian" title="kinga">kinga</a>) <ol><li><a href="/wiki/shoe" title="shoe">shoe</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension">Declension</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Declension">edit</a>]</div> <table class="inflection-table vsSwitcher" data-toggle-category="declension" style="border: solid 1px var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff); text-align:left;" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"> <tbody><tr> <th class="vsToggleElement" colspan="4" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">Declension of king (ÕS type <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Estonian_nominal_inflection#külm" class="mw-redirect" title="Appendix:Estonian nominal inflection">22i/külm</a>, length gradation) </th></tr> <tr class="vsHide"> <th style="min-width: 11em; background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);" colspan="2"> </th> <th style="min-width: 10em; background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">singular </th> <th style="min-width: 10em; background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">plural </th></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">nominative </th> <td rowspan="2">king </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingad (page does not exist)">kingad</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th rowspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">accusative </th> <th style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-1,#e0ffe0);">nom. </th></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-1,#e0ffe0);">gen. </th> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/kinga#Estonian" title="kinga">kinga</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">genitive </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingade (page does not exist)">kingade</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">partitive </th> <td><a href="/wiki/kinga#Estonian" title="kinga">kinga</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/kingi#Estonian" title="kingi">kingi</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingasid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingasid (page does not exist)">kingasid</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">illative </th> <td><a href="/wiki/kinga#Estonian" title="kinga">kinga</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingasse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingasse (page does not exist)">kingasse</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadesse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadesse (page does not exist)">kingadesse</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingisse&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingisse (page does not exist)">kingisse</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">inessive </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingas (page does not exist)">kingas</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingades&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingades (page does not exist)">kingades</a> <a href="/wiki/kingis#Estonian" title="kingis">kingis</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">elative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingast (page does not exist)">kingast</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadest (page does not exist)">kingadest</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingist&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingist (page does not exist)">kingist</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">allative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingale (page does not exist)">kingale</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadele&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadele (page does not exist)">kingadele</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingile (page does not exist)">kingile</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">adessive </th> <td><a href="/wiki/kingal#Estonian" title="kingal">kingal</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadel (page does not exist)">kingadel</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingil (page does not exist)">kingil</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">ablative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingalt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingalt (page does not exist)">kingalt</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadelt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadelt (page does not exist)">kingadelt</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingilt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingilt (page does not exist)">kingilt</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">translative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingaks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingaks (page does not exist)">kingaks</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadeks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadeks (page does not exist)">kingadeks</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingiks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingiks (page does not exist)">kingiks</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">terminative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingani (page does not exist)">kingani</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadeni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadeni (page does not exist)">kingadeni</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">essive </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingana (page does not exist)">kingana</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadena (page does not exist)">kingadena</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">abessive </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingata (page does not exist)">kingata</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingadeta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingadeta (page does not exist)">kingadeta</a> </td></tr> <tr class="vsHide" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-0,#f2ffff)"> <th colspan="2" style="background:var(--wikt-palette-blue-2,#ccccff);">comitative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=kingaga&action=edit&redlink=1" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Quote-alpha.png/60px-Quote-alpha.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Quote-alpha.png/80px-Quote-alpha.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a> </td> <td>This entry needs <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Quotations" title="Wiktionary:Quotations">quotations</a> to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion" title="Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion">durably archived</a> quotes then please add them! </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kapampangan">Kapampangan</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Kapampangan">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms_2">Alternative forms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Alternative forms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/keng#Kapampangan" title="keng">keng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/qng%CC%83#Kapampangan" title="qng̃">qng̃</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=qng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="qng (page does not exist)">qng</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=queng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="queng (page does not exist)">queng</a>, <a href="/wiki/quing#Kapampangan" title="quing">quing</a> (Spanish variant)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapampangan_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kapampangan phonology">key</a>): /kɪŋ/ [kɪŋ]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Preposition">Preposition</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Preposition">edit</a>]</div> king <ol><li>indirect object marker: <a href="/wiki/of" title="of">of</a>, <a href="/wiki/to" title="to">to</a>, <a href="/wiki/at" title="at">at</a>, <a href="/wiki/on" title="on">on</a>, <a href="/wiki/in" title="in">in</a>, <a href="/wiki/into" title="into">into</a>, <a href="/wiki/onto" title="onto">onto</a>, <a href="/wiki/among" title="among">among</a>, <a href="/wiki/around" title="around">around</a>, <a href="/wiki/for" title="for">for</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also_2">See also</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead">Kapampangan markers</div> <div class="NavContent"> <table class="wikitable" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" width="100"> </th> <th>Direct </th> <th>Indirect </th> <th>Oblique </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th rowspan="2">Common </th> <th>Singular </th> <td><a href="/wiki/ing#Kapampangan" title="ing">ing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ning#Kapampangan" title="ning">ning</a>, <a href="/wiki/-ng#Kapampangan" title="-ng">-ng</a> </td> <td>king </td></tr> <tr> <th valign="top">Plural </th> <td><a href="/wiki/ding#Kapampangan" title="ding">ding</a>/<a href="/wiki/ring#Kapampangan" title="ring">ring</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ring#Kapampangan" title="ring">ring</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/karing#Kapampangan" title="karing">karing</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th rowspan="2">Personal </th> <th>Singular </th> <td><a href="/wiki/i#Kapampangan" title="i">i</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/-ng#Kapampangan" title="-ng">-ng</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/kang#Kapampangan" title="kang">kang</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <th>Plural / Polite </th> <td><a href="/wiki/di#Kapampangan" title="di">di</a>/<a href="/wiki/ri#Kapampangan" title="ri">ri</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/ri#Kapampangan" title="ri">ri</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/kari#Kapampangan" title="kari">kari</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manx">Manx</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Manx">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_4">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> <ol><li>inflection of <a href="/wiki/gv#Manx" title="gv">kione</a>: <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#genitive_case" title="Appendix:Glossary">genitive</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#nominative_case" title="Appendix:Glossary">nominative</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#plural_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">plural</a></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mutation">Mutation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Mutation">edit</a>]</div> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" class="inflection-table" style="align: left; margin: 0.5em 0 0 0; border-style: solid; border: 1px solid #7f7f7f; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #F8F8F8; font-size: 95%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_language#Initial_consonant_mutations" class="extiw" title="w:Manx language">Manx mutation</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/radical" title="radical">Radical</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/lenition" title="lenition">Lenition</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/eclipsis" title="eclipsis">Eclipsis</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>king</td> <td><a href="/wiki/ching#Manx" title="ching">ching</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/ging#Manx" title="ging">ging</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_English">Middle English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Middle English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_forms_3">Alternative forms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Alternative forms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/kenin#Middle_English" title="kenin">kenin</a>, <a href="/wiki/kening#Middle_English" title="kening">kening</a>, <a href="/wiki/kinig#Middle_English" title="kinig">kinig</a> (in compounds, toponymic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/gug#Middle_English" title="gug">gug</a>, <a href="/wiki/kug#Middle_English" title="kug">kug</a> (in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology))</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=knyng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="knyng (page does not exist)">knyng</a> (transmission error)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=chinge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="chinge (page does not exist)">chinge</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=chin%C8%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="chinȝ (page does not exist)">chinȝ</a>, <a href="/wiki/cing#Middle_English" title="cing">cing</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=cining&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cining (page does not exist)">cining</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=cin%C8%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cinȝ (page does not exist)">cinȝ</a>, <a href="/wiki/ging#Middle_English" title="ging">ging</a>, <a href="/wiki/keing#Middle_English" title="keing">keing</a>, <a href="/wiki/keng#Middle_English" title="keng">keng</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingk (page does not exist)">kingk</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingue&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingue (page does not exist)">kingue</a>, <a href="/wiki/kining#Middle_English" title="kining">kining</a>, <a href="/wiki/kink#Middle_English" title="kink">kink</a>, <a href="/wiki/kyng#Middle_English" title="kyng">kyng</a>, <a href="/wiki/kynge#Middle_English" title="kynge">kynge</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_3">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> Inherited from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/cyning#Old_English" title="cyning">cyning</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-West_Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-West Germanic language">Proto-West Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic/kuning" title="Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kuning">*kuning</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kuningaz" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kuningaz">*kuningaz</a>. The forms kug (attested in the compounds <a href="/w/index.php?title=kugdom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kugdom (page does not exist)">kugdom</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=kuglond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kuglond (page does not exist)">kuglond</a>, and <a href="/wiki/kugriche#Middle_English" title="kugriche">kugriche</a>) and gug (attested in the compound <a href="/w/index.php?title=guglond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="guglond (page does not exist)">guglond</a>) show the influence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" class="extiw" title="w:Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <a href="/wiki/konungr#Old_Norse" title="konungr">konungr</a>, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring <a href="/wiki/syncope#English" title="syncope">syncope</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=chinge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="chinge (page does not exist)">chinge</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=chin%C8%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="chinȝ (page does not exist)">chinȝ</a>, <a href="/wiki/cing#Middle_English" title="cing">cing</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=cin%C8%9D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="cinȝ (page does not exist)">cinȝ</a>) may have long ī. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_4">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Middle_English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Middle English pronunciation">key</a>): /kinɡ/, [kiŋɡ]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_5">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king (nominative plural <a href="/wiki/kinges#Middle_English" title="kinges">kinges</a>, also the early forms <a href="/w/index.php?title=kingas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingas (page does not exist)">kingas</a> or <a href="/w/index.php?title=king%C3%A6s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kingæs (page does not exist)">kingæs</a>) <ol><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a> (monarch)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a> (chess piece)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_2">Derived terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/king_of_kinges#Middle_English" title="king of kinges">king of kinges</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kinges#Middle_English" title="Kinges">Kinges</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kinges_of_Coloin#Middle_English" title="kinges of Coloin">kinges of Coloin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingles#Middle_English" title="kingles">kingles</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingly#Middle_English" title="kingly">kingly</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kingpleie#Middle_English" title="Kingpleie">Kingpleie</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/kingriche#Middle_English" title="kingriche">kingriche</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Descendants_2">Descendants</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Descendants">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>English: <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"> (see there for further descendants)</li> <li>Scots: <a href="/w/index.php?title=keeng&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="keeng (page does not exist)">keeng</a>, <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scots">king</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li> <li>Yola: <a href="/wiki/kinge#Yola" title="kinge">kinge</a>, <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Yola">king</a><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r68481116"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="References">References</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED24299">king, n.</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English Dictionary">MED Online</a></cite>, Ann Arbor, Mich.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="w:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, 2007.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Swedish">Swedish</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Swedish">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_4">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#loanword" title="Appendix:Glossary">Borrowed</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" class="extiw" title="w:English language">English</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective">Adjective</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Adjective">edit</a>]</div> king <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a>) <a href="/wiki/great" title="great">great</a>, <a href="/wiki/awesome" title="awesome">awesome</a> <dl><dd>Synonym: <a href="/wiki/kunglig#Swedish" title="kunglig">kunglig</a></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">Deras sound är king <a href="/wiki/ass%C3%A5#Swedish" title="asså">asså</a><dl><dd>Their sound is so awesome</dd></dl></div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">Helgen var king<dl><dd>The weekend was awesome</dd></dl></div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">– Jag lyckades fixa datorn. – King!<dl><dd>– I managed to fix the computer. – Awesome!</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/game#Noun" title="game">games</a>) Synonym of <a href="/wiki/ruta#Swedish" title="ruta">ruta</a> (“foursquare”).</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Usage_notes">Usage notes</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Usage notes">edit</a>]</div> Uninflected. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_2">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slangopedia.se/ordlista/?ord=king">Slangopedia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tok_Pisin">Tok Pisin</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Tok Pisin">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_5">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" class="extiw" title="w:English language">English</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_6">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king <ol><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">king</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yola">Yola</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Yola">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_7">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> king <ol><li>Alternative form of <a href="/wiki/kinge#Yola" title="kinge">kinge</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in <cite>SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY</cite>, number 5, page 96:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Earch myde was a queen, an earch bye was a king;<dl><dd>Each maid was a queen, and each boy was a king;</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_3">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=king&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, <cite>A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland</cite>, London: J. 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data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nia mw-list-item"><a href="https://nia.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Nias" lang="nia" hreflang="nia" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Li Niha" data-language-local-name="Nias" class="interlanguage-link-target">Li Niha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-na mw-list-item"><a href="https://na.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Nauru" lang="na" hreflang="na" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Dorerin Naoero" data-language-local-name="Nauru" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dorerin Naoero</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sängö</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="king" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Walon</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://yue.wiktionary.org/wiki/king" title="king – Cantonese" lang="yue" 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