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English word origin

Etymology of Shan

From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.

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The source etymologies

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.

name

The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family. · A state of Myanmar.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.

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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
name

The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝/陕 (shǎn).

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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.

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