چینی

چینی (çînî) (not comparable)

1. Arabic spelling of çînî (“Chinese”)

چینی (çînî) f

1. Arabic spelling of çînî (“the Chinese language”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “Ç’înî”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 143

Borrowed from Persian چینی (čini, “Chinese; porcelain”).

چینی • (çini)

1. porcelain, a hard, white, translucent ceramic traditionally made in China

   Synonym: فغفور (fağfur)

2. encaustic tile, a glazed and fired tile, having patterns of different coloured clays
3. faience, a type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic traditionally made in Faenza
4. porcelain blue, a peculiarly delicate, light blue color

• Turkish: çini

چینی • (çini)

1. Chinese, of, from, or related to China

   Synonym: سینی (sini)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çini1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1003
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چینی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 489
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Porcellana”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1318
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چینی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1700
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çini”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 748

Dari	چینی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чинӣ

From چین (čin, “China”) +‎ ـی (-i).

Readings
Classical reading?	čīnī
Dari reading?	čīnī
Iranian reading?	čini
Tajik reading?	čini

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چینی • (čini)

1. Chinese

   زبان چینی ― zabân-e čini ― the Chinese language

چینی • (čini) (plural چینی‌ها (čini-hâ))

1. Chinese (person)
2. Chinese (language)
3. porcelain; china, Chinese ceramics

• → Ottoman Turkish: چینی (çini)
  • Turkish: çini

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “چینی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From چِین (cīn, “China”) +‎ ـِی (-ī)

چِینِی • (cīnī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੀਨੀ)

1. Chinese

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੀਨੀ)

1. Chinese (language)
2. sugar

From چین (cīn, “China”) +‎ ـی (-ī)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː.niː/
• Rhymes: -iː

چِینِی • (cīnī) (Hindi spelling चीनी)

1. Chinese

چِینِی • (cīnī) m or f (Hindi spelling चीनी)

1. Chinese (person)

Masculine:

Declension of چینی
	singular	plural
direct	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینی (cīnī)
oblique	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینِیوں (cīniyõ)
vocative	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینِیو (cīniyo)

Feminine:

Declension of چینی
	singular	plural
direct	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینِیاں (cīniyā̃)
oblique	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینِیوں (cīniyō̃)
vocative	چِینی (cīnī)	چِینِیو (cīniyō)

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Hindi spelling चीनी)

1. Chinese (language)

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Hindi spelling चीनी)

1. sugar

From Urdu چینی (čīnī).

چینی (čīnī)

1. sugar