Port Arthur
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English
editEtymology
editNamed after British naval officer William Arthur (Royal Navy) (1830-1866) in 1860.
Proper noun
edit- Former name of Lüshun (“a port in China”).
- 1901, Great Britain Foreign Office Correspondence on China, 1872-1904[1], volume 4, →OCLC, page 73:
- Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf.
- 1947, Theodore H. White, Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China[2], London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, →OCLC, →OL, page 271:
- The bitter heart of the treaty lay in the clauses requiring China to give up her sovereign control of Port Arthur and Dairen. Dairen was made an international free port, with special rights for Russia, and the Russians received the right to establish a naval base at Port Arthur on Chinese soil.
- 1952 July, the late H. Carew, “By Special Train in the Far East”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:
- Important among these [negotiations] was control of what the Russians had called the Chinese Eastern Railway from Port Arthur and Dalny [Dairen] up to Mukden and Changchun, a distance of some 450 miles. This line had been fought over from end to end, and had been severely damaged.
- 1973 May 27, “Mao still embraces Stalin cult”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XIV, number 20, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
- The Peiping-Moscow friendship and alliance pact was signed in February 1950. Other treaties concluded in the "honeymoon period" had to do with the Manchurian railroad, harbors of Port Arthur and Dairen, petroleum from Sinkiang, and exploitation of rare metals.
- A locality in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
- A town and former convict settlement in Tasman council area, Tasmania, Australia.
- A city mostly in Jefferson County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Grant, Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A community and former city in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Translations
editport in China
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Further reading
edit- “Port Arthur”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Port Arthur, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Port Arthur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Port Arthur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Port Arthur” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
edit(city): Ultimately from English Port Arthur.
(street): Called after the city.
Pronunciation
edit- (Austlandet) IPA(key): /puʈ.aʈːʉr/
- (Trøndelag) IPA(key): /puʂt.aʂːtʉr/ [1]
- (Guttural R dialects) IPA(key): /puʁt.aʁtʉʁ/
Proper noun
editReferences
edit- ^ A. Dalen, J. R. Hagland, S. Hårstad, H. Rydving, O. Stemshaug (2008) Trøndersk språkhistorie: Språkforhold i ein region
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