to push something (especially to start an avalanche effect) · to clink glasses, to propose a toast · to kick off, to launch, to initiate (especially an idea)
çekim: geçmiş stieß an · ortaç angestoßen · şimdiki stößt an · ulaç anstoßend
(of a product) low-quality, counterfeit (usually made in China); shanzhai
çekim: çoğul xing lings
köken: Onomatopoeic. Imitative of Mandarin; compare English ching chong. Sometimes erroneously said to derive from Mandarin 星零 (xīng líng, “zero stars”) in some sources — however, that is merely speculative folk etymology.
Foi descoberto por um médico chinês de nome Li Wenling. / Só poderia ser um Xing Ling!
銭ころ: (obsolete) money · 銭ころ: (obsolete) something small and insignificant
eş: ころ銭
köken: Compound of 銭 (chan, “money”, tōon reading) + ころ (koro). koro is possibly either cognate with ころ銭 (korosen, “money”), or possibly a diminutive suffix. First cited to a text from 1724. Likely fell out of use, as no pitch accent dictionaries include accentual information.
China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949) · Chinese (the language or the people of the region)
köken: From Malay Cina, from Sanskrit चीन (Cīna), likely derived from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin, “State of Qin, Qin dynasty”).
köken: Possibly from a univerbation of Cebuano Intsik wakang or a blend of Intsik + tokwa, according to Zorc (1993). See also Hokkien 罪過 /罪过 (chě-kòa, “to sin; to commit an offence”).