/ɕin⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•Xinzhuang, Jiading and Pudong collectively; three areas in Shanghai surrounding Puxi
Etimoloji
Borrowed from English Singapore, from Malay Singapura, from Sanskrit सिंहपुर (siṃhá-pura), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + पुर (pura, “city”). Attested since the late 1870s, and was selected as the official Chinese name for the country by the Singaporean government in 1972, after which it gradually supplanted its homophonous variant 新嘉坡 (Xīnjiāpō). Shanghainese sense from 莘嘉浦 via phono-semantic…