kanker
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch kanker, from Middle Dutch canker, from Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.kər/
Audio: (file)
Noun
kanker (plural kankers)
Derived terms
Cornish
Etymology
From Middle English canker, from Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaŋkəɹ/
Noun
kanker m (plural kankres)
Derived terms
- kanker awel (“nipper crab”)
- kanker blewek (“hairy crab”)
- kanker gwighen (“hermit crab”)
- kanker kofen (“edible crab”)
- kanker malan (“Montagu's crab”)
- kanker medhal (“hermit crab”)
- kanker melyn (“warty crab, yellow crab”)
- kanker meyn (“broad-clawed porcelain crab”)
- kanker neyj (“nipper crab”)
- kanker neyj (“velvet swimming crab”)
- kanker pebren (“green shore crab, harbour crab”)
- kanker treth (“helmet crab, masked crab, sand crab”)
- kowel kankres (“crab pot”)
Mutation
| unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kanker | ganker | hanker | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋ.kər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: kan‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɑŋkər
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch canker, from Latin cancer.
Noun
kanker m (plural kankers, diminutive kankertje n)
- (medicine, oncology) cancer
- (figurative) cancer, something harmful that festers and spreads elsewhere
Derived terms
- alvleesklierkanker
- baarmoederhalskanker
- baarmoederkanker
- bloedkanker
- borstkanker
- botkanker
- darmkanker
- huidkanker
- kanker-
- kankeren
- kankergezwel
- kankerlijder, kankerlijer
- kankerpatiënt
- kankerstaaf
- kinderkanker
- leverkanker
- longkanker
- maagkanker
- naar de kanker
- nierkanker
- peniskanker
- prostaatkanker
- teelbalkanker
- verkankeren
- vulvakanker
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kanker
- → Caribbean Javanese: kangker
- → Indonesian: kanker
- → Minangkabau: kangker
- → Papiamentu: kanker
- → Sranan Tongo: kanker
Interjection
kanker
- (potentially offensive, vulgar, chiefly Netherlands) An expression of anger, annoyance, etc. damn, fuck
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
kanker
- inflection of kankeren:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch kanker (“cancer”), from Middle Dutch canker, from New Latin cancer. Cognate of Afrikaans kanker. Doublet of Kanser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (standard) [ˈkan.kər], (assimilated, Dutch-influenced) [ˈkaŋ.kər]
- Hyphenation: kan‧kêr
Noun
kankêr (plural kanker-kanker)
- (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer (a disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation)
- (figurative) something damaging that spreads throughout something else
Alternative forms
- kangker
- کنسر (kanser) (Malaysia, Singapore)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- kanker anus
- kanker batang
- kanker darah
- kanker dubur
- kanker esofagus
- kanker ganas
- kanker ginjal
- kanker herediter
- kanker hipofaring
- kanker in situ
- kanker invasif
- kanker kerongkongan
- kanker kolon
- kanker kolorektal
- kanker kulit
- kanker lambung
- kanker lidah
- kanker mata
- kanker mulut
- kanker nasofaring
- kanker otak
- kanker ovarium
- kanker pankreas
- kanker paru
- kanker payudara
- kanker penis
- kanker prostat
- kanker rahim
- kanker serviks
- kanker sinus
- kanker stadium
- kanker tenggorokan
- kanker timus
- kanker tiroid
- kanker tulang
- kanker usus
- kanker usus besar
Further reading
- “kanker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology 1
From English canker (“canker”), from Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer, from Latin cancer (“a cancer”).
Noun
kanker (Jawi spelling کنکر, plural kanker-kanker)
Etymology 2
From Indonesian kanker, from Dutch kanker (“cancer”), from Middle Dutch canker, from New Latin cancer.
Noun
kanker (Jawi spelling کنکر, plural kanker-kanker)
Alternative forms
- kanser (Malaysia, Singapore)
Further reading
- “kanker” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch kanker, from Middle Dutch canker, from Latin cancer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkankəɾ/, [ˈka̠ŋkəɾ], [ˈkɑ̟ŋkəɾ]
Noun
kanker