As a Hindi name
चीन · noun · masculine
झंडी । पताका · सीसा नामक धातु । नाग · तागा । सूत — Śabdasāgara
चीन · noun · masculine
वह सिकुड़न जो दाब पाकर कपड़े, कागज आदि पर पड़ती है । सिलवट । शिकन । चुनट — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ चुनन
चीन · ćīn · s.m.
China — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 471
चीन · masculine
China (a cultural region and civilization in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers, taken as a whole under its various dynasties); China (a large country in East Asia, occupying the region around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers; the People's Republic of China, since 1949)
Cited formation "चीन" is च + -ईन: च means "the sixth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ईन forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §10(5) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चीन" is चीना + -न: चीना means "Of or belonging to China, produced in China", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Borrowed from Sanskrit चीन (cīna), possibly from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
sg. a kind of deer
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Dictionary citations
cīna m. pl. the Chinese, Mn. x, 44; MBh. ii f., v f.; R. iv, 44, 14; Lalit.; Jain.; Car.; VarBṛS. (also cīṇa)
cīna m. sg. a kind of deer, L.
Panicum miliaceum (also cinna, L.)
a thread, L.
cīna n. a banner, L.
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