カンブリア

Japanese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Cambria

Alternative forms

All are ateji and obsolete:

Proper noun

カンブリア • (Kanburia) 

  1. (historical) Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
  2. Cambria (a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California)
  3. Cambria (a village in Williamson County, Illinois)
  4. Cambria (a town in Niagara County, New York; some of the early settlers were from Wales)
Descendants
  • Chinese: 寒武 (Hánwǔ) (via ateji)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Cumbria.

Proper noun

カンブリア • (Kanburia) 

  1. Cumbria (a county of northern England, formed in 1974 from Cumberland, Westmorland, and part of Lancashire)
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