kukang

English

Noun

kukang (plural kukangs)

1. (archaic) Nycticebus coucang, the Sunda slow loris.
   • 1838, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, volume 7, page 69:

     Of the genus Loris are two species, the Kukang or Lemur tardigradus, and the Nycticebus Javanicus, the latter of which however I have not seen.

   • 1895, The Black Cat, volume 1, page 37:

     […] leaving the poor fellow to make his way unarmed down to the sea, where he ran upon a pair of half-starved kukangs, a vicious species of Malay chimpanzee, in fleeing from which he fell over the cliff and was dashed to pieces.

Indonesian

Noun

kukang (plural kukang-kukang)

1. Nonstandard form of kungkang (“slow loris”).

Polish

kukang

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.kaŋk/
• Rhymes: -ukaŋk
• Syllabification: ku‧kang

Noun

kukang m animal

1. slow loris (any primate of the genus Nycticebus)

Declension

Declension of kukang

	singular	plural
nominative	kukang	kukangi
genitive	kukanga	kukangów
dative	kukangowi	kukangom
accusative	kukanga	kukangi
instrumental	kukangiem	kukangami
locative	kukangu	kukangach
vocative	kukangu	kukangi

Further reading

• kukang in Polish dictionaries at PWN