Zayton
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (historical) A major but poorly known medieval port of Fujian in China, variously intending Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in different sources.
Etymology
Derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (olive, Zayton).
Origin
Arabic
زَيْتُون
Gloss
olive, Zayton
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *sētīnus Latin
- زَيْتُون Arabic
- ज़ैतून Hindi
- զեյթուն Armenian
- зайтун Persian
- زیتون Persian
- zaitun Malay
- зәйтүн Kazakh
- zeytun Azerbaijani
- زیتون Ottoman Turkish
- زیتین Ottoman Turkish
- ზეითუნის ზეთი Georgian
- zeituni Swahili
- زیتون Urdu
- зетын Adyghe
- زەيتۇن Uighur, Uyghur
- zeytûn Northern Kurdish
- zaitun Hausa
- zeýtun Turkmen
- zeytun Zazaki
- daytuun Afar
- saytuun Somali