Pequin
English
editEtymology 1
editProper noun
editPequin (plural Pequins)
- A surname from French.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pequin is the 662747th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 16 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pequin”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Etymology 2
editProper noun
editPequin
- Obsolete form of Peking (“Chinese capital city”).
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes[1], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:
- That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.
Central Nahuatl
editProper noun
editPequin
- Beijing (the capital city of China)
Occitan
editProper noun
editPequin m
- Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)
Derived terms
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- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from French
- English obsolete forms
- English terms with quotations
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Nahuatl proper nouns
- nhn:Beijing
- nhn:Cities in China
- nhn:National capitals
- nhn:Places in China
- Cholula Central Nahuatl
- Milpa Alta Central Nahuatl
- Occitan lemmas
- Occitan proper nouns
- Occitan masculine nouns
- oc:Beijing
- oc:Municipalities of China
- oc:Cities in China
- oc:National capitals
- oc:Places in China