Yunan

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See also: yunan, ýunan, yùnàn, and Yunnan

English

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Etymology 1

From Mandarin 鬱南郁南 (Yùnán).

Proper noun

Yunan

  1. A county of Yunfu, Guangdong, China.
    • 1951 May, Hsinhua News Agency Release, →OCLC, page 81, column 3:
      A typical example of the lightning growth of the cooperatives since land reform comes from Kwangtung Province. Early in April the Yunan County Cooperative in Kwangtung sent a team of workers to a nearby village where land reform had []
    • 1971 July, Hsinhua Selected News Items, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 2:
      Many leading cadres go to forestry centres where they worked alongside the masses. The examplery deeds of the cadres deepen the mass movement.
      Yunan County in mountainous region of Kwangtung Province has set a good example.
    • 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 2:
      It then included the Wentoushan Formation at its top. The type locality is Lientan, Yunan County, Guangdong Province.
    • 2011 August 27, Mimi Lau, “Little girl's horrific abuse shames the nation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 March 2023:
      Newspaper readers have donated about 620,000 yuan to help pay for her medical care, adding to a 50,000 yuan fund established by the Yunan county government.
    • 2015, Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, Guangwen He, “Regulations and Policies on Growth of Non-State Enterprises”, in The Ecology Of Chinese Private Enterprises, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
      On the local level, a good example is the credit rating system in Yunan County in Guangdong Province. [] Yunan County engaged all relevant functional departments in the county, and using the People's Bank of China's credit rating system, created the Yunan County Enterprise Non-Bank Credit Information Enquiry System in 2009.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yunan.
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Etymology 2

Proper noun

Yunan

  1. Misspelling of Yunnan.

Further reading

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْيُونَان (al-yūnān).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Yū̀nân f

  1. Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

Indonesian

Noun

Yunan (first-person possessive Yunanku, second-person possessive Yunanmu, third-person possessive Yunannya)

  1. Greek

Malay

Noun

Yunan (plural Yunan-Yunan, informal 1st possessive Yunanku, 2nd possessive Yunanmu, 3rd possessive Yunannya)

  1. Archaic form of Yunani.

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یونان (Yunan), from Old Anatolian Turkish یونان (Yunan), from Persian یونان (yunân), from Old Persian 𐎹𐎢𐎴 (yauna, Ionia), from Ancient Greek Ἰᾱ́ων (Iā́ōn, Ionian), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Yu‧nan

Proper noun

Yunan

  1. Greek (person)

Adjective

Yunan (uncomparable)

  1. Greek, relating to Greece or Greeks.
    Yunan kültürü
    Greek culture

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