Cathay

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

Cina

Catai

Repubblica popolare cinese

sinonimi

China

Communist China

People’s Republic of China

Red China

PRC

mainland China

Traduzioni

Catay

Cathay

Chine

🇨🇳

China

🇨🇳

Κίνα

Catai

China

🇨🇳

China

🇨🇳

Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία της Κίνας

Xina

الصِّين

République populaire de Chine

Cathay

جُمْهُورِيّة الصِّين الشّعْبِيّة

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kæˈθeɪ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine mongolo: хутга

Affine russo: 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.