Kachin

English

Etymology

From Burmese ကချင် (ka.hkyang).

Noun

Kachin pl (plural only)

1. Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.

Translations

any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people

• Arabic: كاشين
• Burmese: ကချင် (my) (ka.hkyang)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克欽族／克钦族 (kèqīn zú)

• Finnish: kachinit
• French: Kachin (fr)
• German: Kachin (de), Katschin (de)
• Hungarian: kacsin
• Japanese: カチン族 (kachinzoku)
• Korean: 카친족 (kachinjok)
• Lithuanian: kačinai
• Portuguese: kachin, cachin

Proper noun

Kachin

1. A state of Myanmar.
2. The Jingpho language.
   • 1896, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Annual Report (volume 82, page 92)

     Some of the Yaw Yin people understand Kachin, but as would be natural, are more acquainted with Chinese, and will probably in time be reached through this language.

Translations

a state of Myanmar

• Acehnese: Kachin
• Basque: Katxin
• Catalan: Kachin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 克欽邦／克钦邦 (zh) (kèqīn bāng)

• Dutch: Kachin (nl)
• Esperanto: Kaĉino
• Finnish: Kachin
• French: Kachin (fr)
• German: Kachin-Staat
• Hungarian: Kacsin
• Japanese: カチン州 (Kachin shū)
• Macedonian: Качин (Kačin)
• Norwegian: Kachin
• Polish: Kaczin
• Portuguese: Cachim
• Romanian: Kachin
• Russian: Качин (Kačin)
• Serbo-Croatian: Kachin
• Spanish: Kachin
• Swedish: Kachin
• Tajik: Качин (Kačin)
• Turkish: Kaçin
• Ukrainian: Качин (Kačyn)
• Vietnamese: Kachin

Jingpho language — see Jingpho

Anagrams

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