Mandchou
See also: mandchou
English
Noun
Mandchou (plural Mandchous)
Proper noun
Mandchou
- Obsolete form of Manchu.
- 1844: John Holmes Agnew and Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 569
- The volume before us presents, first of all, a paradigma, or specimen sheet, on which each letter of the English alphabet, small and capital, written and printed, is accompanied by its pronunciation in Chinese phonetic signs, as well as in Mandchou letters.
- 1844: John Holmes Agnew and Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 569
French
Etymology
From Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju); first attested in 1724 as Mant-cheoux.
Noun
Mandchou m (plural Mandchous, feminine Mandchoue)
- Manchu (person)
Related terms
References
- “Mandchou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.