wong

• IPA^(key): /wɒŋ/

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

wong (plural wongs)

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

From the pen name Stanford Wong.

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

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

• wongable

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wong (plural wongs)

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

• gown

wong

1. Romanization of ᬯᭀᬂ.

From Javanese ꦮꦺꦴꦁ (wong, “human, person”), from Old Javanese woṅ, wwaṅ, from Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uRaŋ. Doublet of bong. Cognate of Indonesian orang, Javanese wong, Balinese wong (ᬯᭀᬂ).

• IPA^(key): [ˈwɔŋ]
• Hyphenation: wong

wong (first-person possessive wongku, second-person possessive wongmu, third-person possessive wongnya)

1. (colloquial) synonym of orang (“human, person”).

• “wong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

wong

1. Romanization of ꦮꦺꦴꦁ

• IPA^(key): /wonɡ/, [woŋɡ]

wong m (nominative plural wongas)

1. Alternative spelling of wang