Jāina

See also: jaina, Jaina, and jäinä

Marshallese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English China, from Persian چینی (čini, “Chinese; porcelain”), compound of چین (čin, “China”) and the suffix ـی (-i), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭩𐭭 (čīn, “China”), probably from Sanskrit चीन (cīna).

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [tʲæinʲɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /tʲæjinʲæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {jayinah}

Derived terms

Proper noun

Jāina

  1. China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949)

References

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