Kim

Proper noun

 * , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
 * 2) * 1926 Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
 * Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.
 * 1) * 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.
 * , the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김, 金)

Translations

 * Arabic: كيم
 * Belarusian: Кім
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Japanese: キム
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: Ким, Kim
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: Кім


 * Dutch:
 * Russian:


 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: كيم
 * Belarusian: Кім
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קים
 * Hindi: किम
 * Japanese: キム,


 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: Ким, Kim
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: Кім
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:

Proper noun

 * , short form of Joakim.

Proper noun

 * 1)  borrowed from English.

Anagrams

 * mik

Proper noun

 * 1)  derived from Joachim.
 * 2)  recently borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1)  shortened from Joakim.

Proper noun

 * 1)  shortened from Joakim.
 * 2)  recently borrowed from English.

Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese, from Chinese 金 (gold)

Proper noun
Kim


 * , translates into English as "gold" or "golden" often in conjunction with the secondary given name Thi, which simply means female.