敦煌
Chinese edit
phonetic | |||
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trad. (敦煌) | 敦 | 煌 | |
simp. #(敦煌) | 敦 | 煌 | |
alternative forms | 燉煌 |
Etymology edit
Likely from a historical Iranian language, with first known records in Chinese in the 2nd century BCE; likely cognate to the later Sogdian 𐼌𐼘𐼇𐼀𐼀𐼏 (δrwʾʾn /*θurwān, θruwān/) – name of Dunhuang known to the Sogdians – attested in the "Sogdian Ancient Letters" [early 4th century] (Gharib, 1995); possibly related to the Θροάνα (Throána) in Greek (Ptolemy, Geographia, Book VI, chap. 16) and Bactrian sources (Pulleyblank, 1962, 1966; Baxter and Sagart, 2014).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
敦煌
- (~市) Dunhuang (a county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China)
- (historical) (~郡) Dunhuang (an ancient commandery in modern Gansu, China)
- (~縣) (historical) Dunhuang (a county of Jiuquan, Gansu, China)
Synonyms edit
- 沙州 (Shāzhōu)