Σῖναι
Ancient Greek
proper noun
Definitions
- (culture) A people of East Asia usually identified as the southern Chinese: the Cantonese, Vietnamese, and other Yue peoples reached via the maritime Silk Road to Panyu (Guangzhou), not known at the time to be related to the Seres reached by the overland route to Chang'an (Xi'an).
- (geography) Their homeland in southern China: Guangdong and northern Vietnam.
- (geography) Their chief city.
Etymology
Derived from Sanskrit चीन (China, southern China, Chinese, lead) derived from Arabic اَلصِّين (China, Chinese) derived from Old Chinese 秦 (Qin, w).
Origin
Old Chinese
秦
Gloss
Qin, w
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Sinese English
- Sinitic English
- Sino- English
- sinologue English
- Sina Latin
- Sinae Latin
- Sinensis Latin
- Sīnae Latin
- Θῖνα Ancient Greek
- Θῖναι Ancient Greek
- Τζίνιστα Ancient Greek
- シナ Japanese
- 支那 Japanese
- चीन Sanskrit
- Sín Irish
- اَلصِّين Arabic
- صِين Arabic
- चीन Hindi
- China Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Ķīna Latvian
- Cina Malay
- סין Hebrew (modern)
- চীন Assamese
- 支那 Chinese
- 脂那 Chinese
- 至那 Chinese
- 𐭰𐭩𐭭 Middle Persian
- ja, 支那 Middle Chinese
- चीन Newari
- 秦 Old Chinese