Кітай

See also: Китай and Kitaj

Belarusian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic Китаи (Kitai), from a Turkic source, ultimately from Old Turkic Qïtaǰ (“Khitan”), from Khitan 𘱿𘱤 (*qid i) or 𘱿𘲫 (*qid ún, “Khitan”), the Mongolic people who ruled Manchuria, then Northern China, then Central Asia from the 9th to 13th centuries.

Cognate with Ukrainian Кита́й (Kytáj), Russian Кита́й (Kitáj), Kazakh Қытай (Qıtay), Kyrgyz Кытай (Kıtay), Karachay-Balkar Къытай (Qıtay), Uzbek Xitoy, Turkmen Hytaý (“China”) and Chinese 契丹 (Qìdān), English Cathay, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʲiˈtaj]

Proper noun

Кіта́й • (Kitáj) m inan (genitive Кіта́ю, uncountable, relational adjective кіта́йскі)

1. China (a region and country in East Asia)

Declension

Declension of Кіта́й (inan sg-only soft masc-form accent-a)

	singular
nominative	Кіта́й Kitáj
genitive	Кіта́ю Kitáju
dative	Кіта́ю Kitáju
accusative	Кіта́й Kitáj
instrumental	Кіта́ем Kitájem
locative	Кіта́і Kitái

See also

• кіта́ец (kitájec), кіта́янка (kitájanka)
• кіта́йскі (kitájski)

References

• “Кітай” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

Carpathian Rusyn

Etymology

See Belarusian Кіта́й (Kitáj).

Proper noun

Кіта́й • (Kitáj) m

1. China (a region and country in East Asia)

Descendants

• → Pannonian Rusyn: Китай (Kitaj)