See also: Appendix:Variations of "km"
Translingual
Etymology 1
From k (“kilo-”) + m (“metre”).
Symbol
km
- (metrology) Symbol for kilometre (kilometer), an SI unit of length equal to 103 metres (meters).
2022 January 2, Benjamin Giles, “In 2021 I ran 2,000km. It was the first resolution I’d kept longer than two weeks”, in The Guardian[1] (in English):In the second year of the pandemic I ran 2,000km. This was a big leap from the first year of the pandemic, and the preceding 50 years, during which I’d only ever dragged my dad bod around the same 5km route a few times a week.
2022 December 23, Jon Henley, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, “Gigantic US winter storm leaves millions without power and cancels holiday plans”, in The Guardian[2] (in English):Ahead of one of the busiest travel periods of the year, the American Automobile Association (AAA) said more than 112 million people planned to travel 50 miles (80 km) or more from home between 23 December and 2 January.
Derived terms
Translations
kilometer
- Armenian: կմ (km)
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: km (da)
- Georgian: კმ (ḳm)
- Greek: χλμ. (chlm.)
- Hebrew: ק״מ
- Hindi: सहस्रमान (sahasramān)
- Hungarian: km (hu)
- Khmer: គ.ម (km)
- Lao: ກມ (kam)
- Lü: ᦜᧅ (l̇ak)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: km (no)
- Nynorsk: km
- Russian: км (ru) (km)
- Swedish: km (sv)
- Thai: กม. (th) (gɔɔ-mɔɔ)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Etymology 2
Abbreviation of English Khmer, from Khmer ខ្មែរ (khmae).
Symbol
km
- (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Khmer.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Khmer terms
Danish
Noun
km
- (crochet) abbreviation of kædemaske
Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (transitive) to complete
- (transitive) to total, to sum up to
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 127–128:
- km.n.n sfḫjw-djw ḥfꜣw m msw.j ḥnꜥ snw.j
- We totalled seventy-five snakes, comprising my children along with my siblings.
Inflection
Conjugation of km (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: km, geminated stem: kmm
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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km
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kmw, km
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kmt
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km, j.km
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km, j.km
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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km
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ḥr km
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m km
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r km
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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km.n
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kmw, km
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consecutive
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km.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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kmt
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| perfective3
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km
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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km.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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km, j.km1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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km
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kmm
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potentialis1
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km.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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km, j.km1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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km.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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km
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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km
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kmm, kmmj6, km2, kmw2 5, kmy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.km1, km, kmy, kmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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j.km1, j.kmw1 5, km, kmj6, kmy6
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km, kmw5
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| prospective
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km, kmtj7
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—
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kmtj4, kmt4
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1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
5 Only in the masculine singular.
6 Only in the masculine.
7 Only in the feminine.
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Afroasiatic *kum- (“to be black”).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈkuːmaw/ → /ˈkuːmaw/ → /ˈkuːmə/ → /keːm/
Adjective
- perfective active participle of kmm: black
Inflection
Declension of km (perfective active participle)
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masculine
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feminine
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| singular
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km
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kmt
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| dual
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kmwj
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kmtj
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| plural
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kmw
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kmwt1, kmt2
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1 Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
2 From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
See the ‘Alternative forms’ section under the main verb.
Derived terms
See the ‘Derived terms’ section under the main verb.
Descendants
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲭⲁⲙⲉ (khame), ⲭⲉⲙⲓ (khemi)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲕⲉⲙⲓ (kemi), ⲕⲉⲙ (kem)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲙⲉ (kame), ⲕⲙⲙⲉ (kmme), ⲕⲁⲙ (kam)
See also
References