Silk Road

English

Etymology

Calque of German Seidenstraße.

Proper noun

the Silk Road

1. (historical) An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.

Derived terms

• Silk Road disease

Translations

routes used by silk traders across Europe, Asia and northern Africa

• Arabic: طَرِيق اَلْحَرِير m (ṭarīq al-ḥarīr)
• Armenian: Մետաքսի ճանապարհ (Metakʻsi čanaparh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絲綢之路／丝绸之路 (zh) (Sīchóu zhī Lù), 丝绸之路 (zh) (Sīchóu zhī Lù)

• Danish: silkevej c
• Dutch: zijderoute (nl) m
• Esperanto: Silka Vojo
• Estonian: Siiditee
• Finnish: silkkitie
• French: route de la soie f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Seidenstraße (de) f
• Hindi: रेशम मार्ग m (reśam mārg), सिल्क रोड f (silk roḍ)
• Hungarian: selyemút (hu)
• Irish: Bóthar an tSíoda m
• Italian: via della seta f
• Japanese: シルクロード (Shiruku Rōdo), 絹の道 (きぬのみち, Kinu no Michi)
• Kazakh: Жібек жолы (Jıbek joly)
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• Korean: 비단길 (Bidan'gil), 실크 로드 (Silkeu rodeu)
• Kyrgyz: жибек жолу (jibek jolu)
• Mongolian: Торгоны зам (Torgony zam)
• Nogai: йибек йолы (yibek yolı)
• Persian: راه ابریشم (râh-e abrišam), جاده ابریشم (jâdde-ye abrišam)
• Polish: jedwabny szlak (pl) m, Jedwabny Szlak m
• Portuguese: Rota da Seda f
• Russian: Вели́кий шёлковый путь m (Velíkij šólkovyj putʹ), шёлковый путь m (šólkovyj putʹ)
• Spanish: Ruta de la Seda f
• Swedish: sidenvägen c
• Thai: เส้นทางสายไหม (sên-taang-sǎai-mǎi)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: İpek Yolu
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: يىپەك يولى (yipek yoli)
• Vietnamese: Con đường tơ lụa
• Welsh: Ffordd y Sidan f

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