china

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃʌɪnə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

After the country China.

china (countable and uncountable, plural chinas)

1. (uncountable) The root of a climbing plant, Smilax china L., once believed to have important medicinal properties.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

     China, saith Manardus, makes a good colour in the face, takes away melancholy, and all infirmities proceeding from cold […].

2. (uncountable) Ceramic or porcelain.
3. (uncountable) Tableware made from china.
4. (countable, music) A cymbal, flattened at the perimeter, about 16 to 20 inches (40 to 50 centimetres) across, that is ridden or crashed to produce a distinctive "trashy" sound.
5. A glazed china marble in children's games.

• bone china

From china plate.

china (plural chinas)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa, countable) Mate (i.e., friend).

   All right, me old china?

• Chain, Chian, chain

china

1. third-person singular past historic of chiner

• nicha

Adjective form.

china

1. Feminine singular of adjective chino.

From the verb chinare.

china f (plural chine)

1. slope, decline, descent

   Synonyms: pendio, declivio, discesa

Borrowed from Spanish quina, quinaquina, from Quechua.

china f (plural chine)

1. cinchona (tree)

From Portuguese China, namely "ink of China".

china f (plural chine)

1. Indian ink

Verb form.

china

1. third-person singular present of chinare
2. second-person singular imperative of chinare

china

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちな

china

1. Alternative spelling of čhína

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.nɐ/
• Homophone: China

Borrowed from Spanish china, from Quechua china (“female”).

china f (plural chinas)

1. (Rio Grande do Sul) a woman, especially one of Native American descent

From China.

china m, f (plural chinas)

1. (dated or informal) Chinaman; Chinese; someone from China

   Synonym: chinês

From the infantile/nursery word chin, a children's guessing game.

china f (plural chinas)

1. Pebble, small stone usually rounded

• chin

china

1. Feminine singular of adjective chino.

china f (plural chinas, masculine chino, masculine plural chinos)

1. A Chinese woman.

• tinta china

Borrowed from Quechua china (“female”).

china f (plural chinas)

1. (derogatory, South America) female servant in a hacienda.

Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in Citrus sinensis).

china f (plural chinas)

1. (Puerto Rico) orange (fruit)