köken: From medieval Gallo-Italic chant "edge, corner" plus the -one augmentative suffix. The sense of "a portion of territory" alongside the literal meaning "corner" developed by the early 11th century. The root of chant is ultimately that of Latin cantus (“rim (of a wheel)”).
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)
çekim: çoğul çinlər · tamlayan çinin
köken: Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish چین (çın), from Proto-Turkic *čïn (“true, real”), presumably borrowed from Sinitic 眞 (MC tsyin, “true, real”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (čïn, “true, real”); Tatar чын (çın), Kazakh шын (şyn), Uzbek chin, Khakas сын (sın), Tuvan шын (şın, “true, real”), etc.
aile: çincə, çindilli, çinli, Çin Xalq Respublikası
Guangzhou (a major prefecture-level city and port, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China) · Guangdong (a populous province of China, located on the southern coast)
çekim: çoğul cantões
köken: From Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng). Compare Spanish Cantón, English Canton, French Canton, Italian Canton, Russian Кантон (Kanton).
China · short for 中華人民共和国 (Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku), the People's Republic of China
eş: 支那
köken: From Middle Chinese 中國 (MC trjuwng kwok, literally “central country”). Compare modern Cantonese 中國 /中国 (zung¹ gwok³). Attested from at least the 12th century.
Sinai (a peninsula in eastern Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia) · Sinai (a mountain in Sinai Peninsula; the location where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments from God)
eş: חוֹרֵב, חֹרֵב
köken: It is named perhaps for Sin, a moon goddess worshipped by Sumerians, Akkadians, and ancient Arabs. The name was extended to the whole peninsula.