English
Etymology
From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pekingese
- The Beijing dialect of Chinese, as distinct from standardized Mandarin.
Synonyms
Noun
Pekingese (plural Pekingeses or Pekingese)
- A small toy dog from China.
- (dated) Synonym of Beijinger (“person from Beijing”).
Translations
dog
- Bulgarian: пекинез m (pekinez)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 北京狗 (zh) (Běijīng gǒu), 哈巴狗 (zh) (hǎbāgǒu), 京巴犬 (Jīngbāquǎn)
- Finnish: kiinanpalatsikoira (fi), pekingeesi (fi)
- French: pékinois (fr) m, pékinoise (fr) f
- German: Pekingese m, Pekingesin f, Pekinese m, Pekinesin f, Peking-Palasthund m, Peking-Palasthündin f, Pekingpalasthund m, Pekingpalasthündin f
- Greek: πεκινουά (el) n (pekinouá)
- Hungarian: pekingi palotakutya, pekingi palotakutyácska, palotapincsi, pekingi (hu)
- Irish: Peicinís m
- Japanese: ペキニーズ (pekinīzu)
- Korean: 페키니즈 (pekinijeu)
- Macedonian: пекине́зер m (pekinézer)
- Malay: anjing Peking, asu Peking, Peking, anjing Beijing, asu Beijing, Beijing
- Mongolian: хав (mn) (xav), бээжин хав (beežin xav)
- Polish: pekińczyk (pl) m
- Portuguese: pequinês m
- Romanian: pechinez (ro) m
- Russian: пекине́с (ru) m (pekinɛ́s)
- Spanish: pekinés (es) m
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Adjective
Pekingese
- of or related to Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China
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