china

See also: China and čhína

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃʌɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Etymology 1Edit

After the country China.

NounEdit

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

1. (uncountable) The root of a climbing plant, Smilax china L., once believed to have important medicinal properties.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, II.5.1.v:

     China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

2. (uncountable) Ceramic or porcelain.
3. (uncountable) Tableware made from china.
4. (countable, music) A cymbal, flattened at the perimeter, about 16 to 20 inches (40 to 50 centimetres) across, that is ridden or crashed to produce a distinctive "trashy" sound.
5. A glazed china marble in children's games.

Derived termsEdit

• bone china

TranslationsEdit

porcelain

• Albanian: porcelan (sq)
• Arabic: خَزَف‏‎ m (ḵazaf)
• Bulgarian: порцелан m (porcelan)
• Catalan: porcellana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓷器 (zh) (cíqì)

• Czech: porcelán m
• Danish: porcelæn (da)
• Estonian: portselan
• Faroese: postalín n
• French: porcelaine (fr) n
• German: chinesisches Porzellan (de) n
• Hebrew: חרסינה‏‎ (he) f (kharsina)
• Italian: porcellana (it) f
• Japanese: 磁器 (ja) (じき, jiki)

• Macedonian: порцела́н m (porcelán)
• Norman: porcélaine f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: porselen n

  Nynorsk: porselen n

• Portuguese: porcelana (pt) f
• Russian: фарфо́р (ru) m (farfór)
• Scots: cheenae
• Slovak: porcelán m
• Slovene: porcelan (sl) m
• Spanish: loza (es) f
• Swedish: porslin (sv) n
• Tagalog: pamantingin
• Vietnamese: sứ (vi), đồ sứ

tableware made from china

• Albanian: bilur (sq)
• Estonian: portselan
• Japanese: 磁器 (ja) (じき, jiki)
• Norman: vaisselle dé porcélaine f (Jersey)

• Portuguese: louça (pt) f
• Scots: cheenae
• Swedish: porslin (sv) n

cymbal

• Japanese: チャイナシンバル (chaina shinbaru)

Etymology 2Edit

From china plate.

NounEdit

china (plural chinas)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, Australian rhyming slang, countable) Mate (i.e., friend).

   All right, me old china?

TranslationsEdit

Cockney rhyming slang: mate — see mate

AnagramsEdit

• Chain, Chian, chain

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FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

china

1. third-person singular past historic of chiner

AnagramsEdit

• nicha

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

china f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective chino.

NounEdit

china f (plural chine)

1. slope, decline, descent

   Synonyms: pendio, declivio, discesa

2. cinchona (tree)
3. Indian ink

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• chinare
• chinato

• chinato
• chinidina

• chinina

VerbEdit

china

1. third-person singular present of chinare
2. second-person singular imperative of chinare

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

china

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちな

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KalashaEdit

AdjectiveEdit

china

1. Alternative spelling of čhína

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SpanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From the infantile/nursery word chin, a children's guessing game.

NounEdit

china f (plural chinas)

1. Pebble, small stone usually rounded

Related termsEdit

• chin

Etymology 2Edit

AdjectiveEdit

china f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective chino.

NounEdit

china f (plural chinas, masculine chino)

1. A Chinese woman.

See alsoEdit

• tinta china

Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from Quechua china (“female”).

NounEdit

china f (plural chinas)

1. (pejorative, South America) female servant in a hacienda.

Etymology 4Edit

Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in Citrus sinensis).

NounEdit

china f (plural chinas)

1. (Puerto Rico) orange (fruit)