English
Minqin
Minqin comes from Mandarin 民勤.
- Mandarinmodern民勤Mínqín
- Englishearliest quotation 2016Minqin
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern民勤Mínqín
- Englishearliest quotation 2016Minqin
Earliest quotation: 2016, Edward Wong, How China’s Politics of Control Shape the Debate on Deserts: “Why is Minqin County, with 115 millimeters of annual…”
Every English word from Mandarin 民勤
Today it means
name A county of Wuwei, Gansu, in northwestern China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 民勤 / Minqin