Chimay

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中文释义

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专有名词
  1. A city and municipality in Hainault, Belgium.
  2. An imaginary lake thought for centuries to exist in southern China or northern Indochina, once believed to be the source of the Brahmaputra or Meghna, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, and the Chao Phraya Rivers. historical
    — CHIMAY, the name of a great lake, lying in the province of Acham, between the Eaſt-Indies and China.

词形变化

Chiamay alternative Chiammay alternative Chiamai alternative Chiang Mai alternative Chaamay alternative Chiama alternative Cunebete alternative Singapamor alternative Jamahey alternative

词源

词源 1
From French Chimay, sometimes further derived via Vulgar Latin, from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“pretty, pleasant”).
词源 2
Variant of earlier Chiamay, from Portuguese Lago de Chiamay in João de Barros's 1553 Décadas da Ásia, Dec. III, Bk. II, presumably from the Chiamay and Chiammay in manuscripts of Fernão Mendes Pinto's Peregrinação, variously referring to an imaginary lake and to the kingdom and town of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Thai เชียงใหม่ (Chiiang Mai), from เชียง (chiiang, “walled city”) + ใหม่ (mài, “new”).
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