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Kitai

Kitai proper noun: synonym of Khitan, in its various senses.

Proper noun

Kitai

  1. Synonym of Khitan, in its various senses.
    • ḲARA KHITĀI (or ḲARĀ KHIṬĀI), the usual name since the viᵗʰ (xiiᵗʰ) century in Muḥammadan sources for the Kitai people, mentioned by the Chinese from the eighth century A. D. onwards, who were probably Tunguz (according to another view Mongol)... From the beginning of the tenth century the Kitai...c. 1913, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, page 738
    Synonyms:
    Khitan

Synonyms of Kitai

Origin of Kitai

From Latin Kitai, from Khitan or , Khitai(n), probably via Uyghur خىتاي (xitay). Cognate with Cathay and Russian Кита́й (Kitáj).

Words formed from Kitai

Questions about Kitai

What does Kitai mean?
Kitai means synonym of Khitan, in its various senses.
What part of speech is Kitai?
Kitai is a proper noun.

Words near Kitai in the dictionary

  1. kitabis
  2. kitabs
  3. Kitagawa
  4. Kitagawas
  5. Kitahiroshima
  6. Kitai
  7. kitaibelite
  8. Kitakata
  9. kitakitsune
  10. Kitakyushu
  11. Kitakyūshū

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