Ningsia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).
Proper noun[edit]
Ningsia
- Obsolete spelling of Ningxia
- 1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins[1], volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?:
- Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.
- 1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum[2], J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
- "Where?"
"To Ningsia."
"Ningsia?"
"You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia."
- 1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3:
- A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.
Translations[edit]
Ningxia — see Ningxia
References[edit]
- “Ningsia, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Ningsia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.