"波斯" meaning in Chinese

See 波斯 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /pɔː⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, IPA, Kaohsiung], /pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, IPA], /pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, IPA, Taipei], /pʰo³³ sɯ³³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Quanzhou, IPA]
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa) (alternatively, from a Sogdian term); first used during the Northern Wei dynasty to refer to the Sasanian Empire. Etymology templates: {{bor|zh|peo|𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿|tr=Pārsa}} Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa) Head templates: {{head|zh|proper noun}} 波斯
  1. (historical) Persia Wikipedia link: Northern Wei, Sasanian Empire Tags: historical Related terms: 伊朗 (Yīlǎng)
    Sense id: en-波斯-zh-name-8vasPuH~ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Old Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 74 2 3 3 6 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 2 2 2 10 10 Derived forms: 波斯人 (Bōsīrén) (english: Persian (person)), 波斯國 (Bōsī Guó), 波斯国 (Bōsī Guó), 波斯地毯, 波斯帝國, 波斯帝国, 波斯教, 波斯灣 (Bōsī Wān) (english: Persian Gulf), 波斯湾 (Bōsī Wān) (english: Persian Gulf), 波斯皁莢, 波斯皂荚, 波斯菊, 波斯語 (bōsīyǔ), 波斯语 (bōsīyǔ), 波斯貓 (bōsīmāo), 波斯猫 (bōsīmāo)

Alternative forms

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          "expansion": "→ Korean: 파사(波斯) (Pasa)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "Ba Tư",
            "bor": "1",
            "id": "波斯",
            "pos": "",
            "t": "",
            "tr": "波斯"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "波斯",
            "2": "^はし",
            "3": "^파사",
            "4": "Ba Tư",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "h": "波斯",
            "j2": "",
            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
            "o": "波斯",
            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "波斯",
            "v": "波斯",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
            "vt": ""
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (波斯):\n* → Japanese: 波斯(はし) (Hashi)\n* → Korean: 파사(波斯) (Pasa)\n* → Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "^はし",
            "3": "^파사",
            "4": "Ba Tư"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (波斯):\n* → Japanese: 波斯(はし) (Hashi)\n* → Korean: 파사(波斯) (Pasa)\n* → Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sino-Xenic (波斯):\n* → Japanese: 波斯(はし) (Hashi)\n* → Korean: 파사(波斯) (Pasa)\n* → Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "peo",
        "3": "𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿",
        "tr": "Pārsa"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa) (alternatively, from a Sogdian term); first used during the Northern Wei dynasty to refer to the Sasanian Empire.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "proper noun"
      },
      "expansion": "波斯",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "Yīlǎng",
      "word": "伊朗"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese proper nouns",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese proper nouns",
        "Chinese terms borrowed from Old Persian",
        "Chinese terms derived from Old Persian",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 斯",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 波",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese terms with historical senses",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Hokkien proper nouns",
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin proper nouns",
        "Middle Chinese lemmas",
        "Middle Chinese proper nouns",
        "Old Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The state of Persia [Sasanian Empire]: its capital is Istakhr. It is located west of Niumi [in the Anxi Protectorate]. It was formerly the state of Tiaozhi [perhaps Seleucia].",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Literary Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " c. 551-554, 魏書 (Book of Wei) by Wei Shou, 卷一百二 列傳第九十 (西域) (Volume 102, Biographies 90: Western Regions)",
          "roman": "Bōsī guó, dōu Sùlì chéng, zài Niǔmì xī, gǔ Tiáozhī guó yě.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Traditional-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "波斯國,都宿利城,在忸密西,古條支國也。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The state of Persia [Sasanian Empire]: its capital is Istakhr. It is located west of Niumi [in the Anxi Protectorate]. It was formerly the state of Tiaozhi [perhaps Seleucia].",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Literary Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " c. 551-554, 魏書 (Book of Wei) by Wei Shou, 卷一百二 列傳第九十 (西域) (Volume 102, Biographies 90: Western Regions)",
          "roman": "Bōsī guó, dōu Sùlì chéng, zài Niǔmì xī, gǔ Tiáozhī guó yě.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Simplified-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "波斯国,都宿利城,在忸密西,古条支国也。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              150,
              156
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              51,
              55
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "An extremely evil custom [in these lands] is that their marriage practices are filthy. They take their mother and sisters as wives. In the country of Persia, they also take their mothers as wives.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Literary Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " c. 728, 《往五天竺國傳》 (Account of the Journey to the Five Indias)",
          "roman": "Jí'è fēngsú, hūnyīn jiāozá. Nà mǔ jí zǐmèi wéi qī. Bōsī guó yì nà mǔ wéi qī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Traditional-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "極惡風俗,婚姻交雜。納母及姊妹為妻。波斯國亦納母為妻。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              150,
              156
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              51,
              55
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "english": "An extremely evil custom [in these lands] is that their marriage practices are filthy. They take their mother and sisters as wives. In the country of Persia, they also take their mothers as wives.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Literary Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " c. 728, 《往五天竺國傳》 (Account of the Journey to the Five Indias)",
          "roman": "Jí'è fēngsú, hūnyīn jiāozá. Nà mǔ jí zǐmèi wéi qī. Bōsī guó yì nà mǔ wéi qī.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin",
            "Simplified-Chinese"
          ],
          "text": "极恶风俗,婚姻交杂。纳母及姊妹为妻。波斯国亦纳母为妻。",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Persia"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Persia",
          "Persia"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) Persia"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Northern Wei",
        "Sasanian Empire"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Bōsī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄛ ㄙ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bo¹ si¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-su"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-sir"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Bōsī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄛ ㄙ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Bosih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Po¹-ssŭ¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Bwō-sz̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Bosy"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Bosy",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Босы"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bo¹ si¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bō sī"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bo¹ si¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bo¹ xi¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɔː⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-su"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-su"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "phoisw"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo⁴⁴⁻²² su⁴⁴/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴⁴/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-sir"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "Pho-sir"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo³³ sɯ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "pa sje"
    }
  ],
  "word": "波斯"
}

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