Китай
Adyghe
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/World_Factbook_%281982%29_China.jpg/220px-World_Factbook_%281982%29_China.jpg)
Etymology
From Russian Китай (Kitaj), from Old East Slavic Китай (Kitaj), cognate Kyrgyz Кытай (Kıtay), Karachay-Balkar Къытай (Qïtay), Uzbek Xitoy, Turkmen Hytaý and Chinese 契丹 (Qìdān), English Cathay, &c.
Proper noun
Китай • (Kitaj)
- China (a region of East Asia)
- People's Republic of China
Bulgarian
Etymology
See Russian.
Proper noun
Китай • (Kitaj) m
Russian
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/China_ethnolinguistic_1967.jpg/220px-China_ethnolinguistic_1967.jpg)
Etymology
From Old East Slavic Китай (Kitaj), from a Turkic source, ultimately from Old Turkic Qïtaǰ (“Khitan”), from Khitan [Term?] Khita(n), the Mongolic people who ruled Manchuria, then Northern China, then Central Asia from the 9th to 13th centuries. Cognate with Kazakh Қытай (Qytai), Kyrgyz Кытай (Kıtay), Karachay-Balkar Къытай (Qïtay), Uzbek Xitoy, Turkmen Hytaý (“China”) and Chinese 契丹 (Qìdān), English Cathay, &c.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Кита́й • (Kitáj) m inan (genitive Кита́я, nominative plural Кита́и, genitive plural Кита́ев)
Declension
Synonyms
- Поднебе́сная (Podnebésnaja)
Derived terms
- кита́ец (kitájec), китая́нка (kitajánka)
- китаеве́дение (kitajevédenije)
- кита́йский (kitájskij)
- Кита́йская Наро́дная Респу́блика (Kitájskaja Naródnaja Respúblika)
- Кита́йская Респу́блика (Kitájskaja Respúblika)
Ukrainian
Etymology
See Russian.
Proper noun
Кита́й • (Kytáj) m inan (genitive Кита́ю, nominative plural [please provide])
Declension
- Adyghe terms borrowed from Russian
- Adyghe terms derived from Russian
- Adyghe terms borrowed from Old East Slavic
- Adyghe terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Adyghe lemmas
- Adyghe proper nouns
- ady:Regions of Asia
- ady:Countries
- Bulgarian lemmas
- Bulgarian proper nouns
- Bulgarian masculine nouns
- bg:Countries
- Russian terms inherited from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Russian terms derived from Turkic languages
- Russian terms derived from Old Turkic
- Russian terms derived from Khitan
- Russian 2-syllable words
- Russian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Russian terms with audio links
- Russian lemmas
- Russian proper nouns
- Russian masculine nouns
- Russian inanimate nouns
- Russian terms with usage examples
- Russian vowel-stem masculine-form nouns
- Russian vowel-stem masculine-form accent-a nouns
- Russian nouns with accent pattern a
- ru:China
- ru:Countries in Asia
- ru:Exonyms
- Ukrainian lemmas
- Ukrainian proper nouns
- Ukrainian masculine nouns
- Ukrainian inanimate nouns
- uk:Countries