Siam

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia. historical
    — From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]

词源

Borrowed from Portuguese Sciam (“Thailand”), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam, “Siam, historical name”) (see there for more hypotheses), the same root as Shan and probably Assam.
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