chino
English edit
Etymology edit
from American Spanish chino, literally "toasted;" so called in reference to its usual color.
Noun edit
chino (countable and uncountable, plural chinos)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Chino cloth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Adjective edit
chino
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the short past participle of chinare (“to bend”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle chinato.[1]
Adjective edit
chino (feminine china, masculine plural chini, feminine plural chine)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
chino
References edit
- ^ Ledgeway 2016: 221
Further reading edit
- Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
chino (feminine singular chiena, masculine plural chine, feminine plural chiene)
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1335: “pieno; piena; pieni; piene” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “chiéna”, in Schedario Napoletano
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
chino
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Variety stores are called chinos because almost all variety stores in Spain are run by Chinese people.
Adjective edit
chino (feminine china, masculine plural chinos, feminine plural chinas)
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos, feminine china, feminine plural chinas)
- Chinese person
Noun edit
chino m (uncountable)
- Chinese (language)
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos)
- (colloquial) gobbledygook (an incomprehensible language)
- (colloquial) a Chinese-run establishment
- a Chinese restaurant
- Synonym: chifa
- (Spain) (US) variety store, dollar store, dime store, five-and-dime, (UK) pound shop (owned by a Chinese immigrant)
- Synonyms: bazar chino, (Spain, dated) todo a cien, (Argentina) todo por dos pesos, (Chile) todo a 1000, (Chile) todo a luca
- a Chinese restaurant
- (colloquial, Spain) heroin (taken by chasing the dragon)
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- achinado
- achinar
- aligátor chino
- antichino
- autillo chino
- berro chino
- caja china
- campanilla china
- chino mandarín
- chino tuerto
- col china
- cuento chino
- damas chinas
- engañar como a un chino
- esto es chino para mí
- fumar como chino en quiebra
- gota china
- mona china
- naranjo chino
- oropéndola china
- repollo chino
- rosa china
- tablero chino
- taco chino
- tinta china
- trabajo de chinos
- yute chino
Etymology 2 edit
Use of enchinar (“to pave”), from en- + china.
Adjective edit
chino (feminine china, masculine plural chinos, feminine plural chinas)
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos, feminine china, feminine plural chinas)
- someone with curly hair
Etymology 3 edit
From Kichwa/Quechua china (“servant girl”).
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos)
- (Colombia) kid
- (Latin America) boy, servant
- Tengo que llevar a los chinos al colegio.
- I have to take the kids to school.
- Apúrate chino Juan que a la fila llaman ya.
- Hurry up little John, because they're calling attendance already.
Related terms edit
Etymology 4 edit
Variant of china.
Noun edit
chino m (plural chinos)
- (Spain, Andalusia) Alternative form of china (“pebble”)
- (in the plural) game where players try to guess the number of coins in another player's first
Further reading edit
- “chino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014