Cathay

Significado (Inglés)

1. (archaic) China, specifically medieval northern China as reached by the overland Silk Road to Xi'an or Beijing, not known at the time to be related to southern China as reached by the maritime routes to Guangzhou.
2. A settlement in North Dakota.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Cathay Pacific.

Conceptos

Catay

China

🇨🇳

República Popular China

RPC

China Comunista

China Continental

China roja

Sinónimos

China

Communist China

People’s Republic of China

Red China

PRC

mainland China

Traducciones

Cathay

China

🇨🇳

Cina

Catai

Chine

🇨🇳

Κίνα

Catai

China

🇨🇳

Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Κίνας

Xina

الصِّين

République populaire de Chine

Cathay

جُمْهُورِيّة الصِّين الشّعْبِيّة

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kæˈθeɪ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con mongol: хутга

Cognado con ruso: Кита́й

In summary

From Latin Cathaya, variant of Cataya, from Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐱃𐰪 (Qïtań), and ultimately from Khitan 𘱿𘲫 (*qid ún); the Khitan people who conquered northern China as the Liao dynasty in the 10th century and ruled the central Asian Qara Khitai Khanate in the 12th, just prior to the overland European missions to China occasioned by the Pax Mongolica. Most likely cognate with Mongolian хутга (xutga, “knife”) from Proto-Mongolic *kïtuga.
Doublet of Khitan. Cognate with Russian Кита́й (Kitáj, “China”). See Names of China.