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Borrowed from Tagalog Kano, initial clipping of Amerikano, ultimately from Spanish americano (“male American”).

kano (plural kanos)

  1. (Philippines, slang) A male American.
  2. (Philippines, slang, by extension) A Western foreigner

kano

Borrowed from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa. The current spelling and pronunciation is likely influenced by French canot.

kano m (plural kano's, diminutive kanootje n)

  1. canoe (a small long and narrow boat)
    We peddelden met de kano over de rustige rivier.
    We paddled the canoe along the calm river.
    De kinderen vonden het leuk om in de kano's te varen tijdens het zomerkamp.
    The children enjoyed paddling in the canoes during summer camp.
    Huur een kanootje en geniet van een ontspannen dag op het meer.
    Rent a little canoe and enjoy a relaxing day on the lake.

From English cane, French canne, Italian canna, Latin canna.

kano (accusative singular kanon, plural kanoj, accusative plural kanojn)

  1. reed, cane
    • 1907, Kabe, chapter 21, in La Faraono, part 2, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:
      Kiel ventego de la dezerto vi falis, kie oni ne atendis vin; kaj kiel la bovo rompas kanon tiel vi frakasis la blindigitan malamikon.
      Like the desert storm you fell where not expected; as the cow breaks reed, so you shattered the blinded enemy.
  2. cane (rod-shaped tool or device)

From Spanish canoa, from Taíno kanoa (“dugout canoe”).

kano f (genitive singular kanoar, plural kanoir)

  1. canoe (a small long and narrow boat)

kano

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かの

From Proto-Polynesian *kano (compare with Hawaiian ʻano and ʻanoʻano, Tahitian ʻaʻano, and Tongan kano),[1] from Proto-Oceanic *kanon (“flesh; kernel”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kan-ən from Proto-Austronesian *kaən-an (“food, cooked rice”) suffixing *kaən (“to eat” – compare with Tagalog kain; also doublet of kai).[2][3][4]

kano

  1. seed, bean, grain, ovule
  2. sort, kind
  3. color, pigment, hue
    Synonyms: mura, tae
  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 123
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kano”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Niu”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023
  4. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 5: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 370-1

From a Caribbean language, via Spanish canoa.

kano m (definite singular kanoen, indefinite plural kanoer, definite plural kanoene)

  1. a canoe (small long and narrow boat)

From a Caribbean language, via Spanish canoa.

kano m (definite singular kanoen, indefinite plural kanoar, definite plural kanoane)

  1. a canoe

From Ottoman Turkish قانو (kano), from French canot, from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa, from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.

kano (definite accusative kanoyu, plural kanolar)

  1. canoe