English
Foshan
Foshan comes from Mandarin 佛山.
- Mandarinmodern佛山Fóshān
- Englishearliest quotation 1836Foshan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern佛山Fóshān
- Englishearliest quotation 1836Foshan
Earliest quotation: 1836, John Francis Davis, New-York: Harper & Brothers: “At Foshan, about four leagues above Canton, Père Bouvet…”
Every English word from Mandarin 佛山
Today it means
name A large prefecture-level city of Guangdong, in southeast China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 佛山 / Foshan