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kosong

[ˈk˭o˧.sɔŋ˦]

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Malaysia[ˈk˭osɔŋ]

kosong adjective: not having additional ingredients, such as milk or sugar; plain.

Adjective

kosong (not comparable)

  1. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, postpositional) Not having additional ingredients, such as milk or sugar; plain.
    • Kopi O Kosong
    • Prata Kosong

Proper noun capitalized: Kosong

Kosong

  1. A county of Kangwon Province, North Korea.
    • An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.1979 September 24 [1979 September 21], “American Plane Intrudes Into Airspace of DPRK”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 186, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...

Origin of kosong

From Malay kosong (“zero, empty”).

Borrowed from Korean 고성(高城) (Goseong).

Questions about kosong

What does kosong mean?
Kosong means not having additional ingredients, such as milk or sugar; plain.
What part of speech is kosong?
Kosong can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce kosong?
Kosong is pronounced [ˈk˭osɔŋ] (Malaysia).

Words near kosong in the dictionary

  1. kosmotropic
  2. kosmotropicity
  3. kosmotropy
  4. kosnarite
  5. Koso
  6. kosong
  7. kosotoxin
  8. Kosov@
  9. Kosova
  10. Kosovan
  11. Kosovans

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