Kim
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Proper noun
- , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
- 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- 1901 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1
- used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
- 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.
- 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
- , the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김, 金)
Proper noun
- , short form of Joakim.
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- borrowed from English.
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- shortened from Joakim.
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- shortened from Joakim.
- recently borrowed from English.
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Kim
- , translates into English as "gold" or "golden" often in conjunction with the secondary given name Thi, which simply means female.