Kitai

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Kitai, from Khitan or , Khitai(n), probably via Uyghur خىتاي (xitay). Cognate with Cathay and Russian Кита́й (Kitáj). === Proper noun === Kitai (historical ethnography) Synonym of Khitan, in its various senses. c. 1913, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, page 738: ḲARA KHITĀI (or ḲARĀ KHIṬĀI), the usual name since the vith (xiith) century in Muḥammadan sources for the Kitai people, mentioned by the Chinese from the eighth century A. D. onwards, who were probably Tunguz (according to another view Mongol)... From the beginning of the tenth century the Kitai carried on a campaign of conquest, conquered the northern part of China and founded a dynasty which as a Chinese ruling house was called Liao (916). ==== Derived terms ==== Kytay === References === == Latin == === Etymology === From Giovanni da Pian del Carpine's transcription of Khitan [script needed] (Khita(n), probably via Uyghur خىتاي (xitay). === Proper noun === Kitai (historical ethnography) The Khitans: a former nomadic people of central Asia. 1246, John de Plano Carpini, The Voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini vnto the Northeast parts of the world, in the yeere of our Lord, 1246, Ch. 5, page 54: === References === == Veps == === Etymology === Borrowed from Russian Кита́й (Kitáj), from Old East Slavic Китаи (Kitai). === Proper noun === Kitai (genitive Kitain, partitive Kitaid) China ==== Inflection ====