那不勒斯

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (那不勒斯)		那	不	勒	斯

Etymology

Attested as early as 1847 as 哪吥嘞嘶 in 新釋地理備考全書 by Portuguese translator José Martinho Marques; borrowed from English Naples or Portuguese Nápoles.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Nàbùlèsī

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄜˋ ㄙ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naa⁵ bat¹ lak⁶ si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Nàbùlèsī [Phonetic: Nàbúlèsī]
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄜˋ ㄙ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Nàbùlèsih
    • Wade–Giles: Na⁴-pu⁴-lê⁴-ssŭ¹
    • Yale: Nà-bù-lè-sz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nahbulehsy
    • Palladius: Набулэсы (Nabulɛsy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä⁵¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ lɤ⁵¹ sɹ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: naa⁵ bat¹ lak⁶ si¹
    • Yale: náh bāt lahk sī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naa⁵ bat⁷ lak⁹ si¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: na⁵ bed¹ leg⁶ xi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naː¹³ pɐt̚⁵ lɐk̚² siː⁵⁵/

Proper noun

那不勒斯

1. Naples (a port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Naples and the region of Campania, Italy)
   • 1864, Henry Wheaton, translated by William Alexander Parsons Martin, 萬國公法, volume 2, 京都崇實館, page 5:

     一千八百二十年間，那不勒斯有內變，𡒃峩普三國，會同共議，預聞其事。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一千八百二十年间，那不勒斯有内变，𡒃峩普三国，会同共议，预闻其事。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Yī qiān bā bǎi èrshí nián jiān, Nàbùlèsī yǒu nèi biàn, Ào É Pǔ sān guó, huìtóng gòng yì, yùwén qí shì. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. Naples (a metropolitan city of Campania, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Naples)

Synonyms

• 拿坡里 (Nápōlǐ)
• 那波利 (Nàbōlì)

Derived terms

• 那不勒斯語 / 那不勒斯语 (Nàbùlèsīyǔ)