Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Θιν ‎(Thin)

Proper noun

Θῖναι • ‎(Thînai) m pl

1. (culture, geography) Synonym of Σῖναι ‎(Sînai): A people of East Asia usually identified as the southern Chinese; their homeland, China; their chief city.
   • 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, page 247:

     The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.

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