# چینی
## Northern Kurdish
### Adjective

چینی (çînî) (not comparable)
* Arabic spelling of çînî (“Chinese”)

### Proper noun

چینی (çînî) f
* Arabic spelling of çînî (“the Chinese language”)

### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “Ç’înî”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 143

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چینی (čini, “Chinese; porcelain”).

### Noun

چینی • (çini)
* porcelain, a hard, white, translucent ceramic traditionally made in China
    Synonym: فغفور (fağfur)
* encaustic tile, a glazed and fired tile, having patterns of different coloured clays
* faience, a type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic traditionally made in Faenza
* porcelain blue, a peculiarly delicate, light blue color

#### Derived terms

* چینی بند (çini bend, “maker of encaustic tiles”)
* چینی خانه (çini hane, “repository for porcelains”)
* چینیلو (çinili, “decorated with faience”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: çini

### Adjective

چینی • (çini)
* Chinese, of, from, or related to China
    Synonym: سینی (sini)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çini1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1003
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چینی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 489
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Porcellana”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1318
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چینی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1700
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çini”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 748

## Persian
### Etymology

From چین (čin, “China”) +‎ ـی (-i, suffix forming adjectives).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [t͡ʃiː.ˈniː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰiː.níː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰiː.níː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t͡ʃʰiː.níː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t͡ʃʰi.ní]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰiː.níː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t͡ʃʰi.ní]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Adjective

چینی • (čini)
* Chinese
    زبان چینی ― zabân-e čini ― the Chinese language

### Noun

چینی • (čini) (plural چینی‌ها (čini-hâ))
* Chinese (person)
* porcelain; china, Chinese ceramics

### Proper noun

چینی • (čini)
* Chinese (language)

### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: چینی (çini)
** Turkish: çini

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “چینی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Punjabi
### Etymology

From چِین (cīn, “China”) +‎ ـِی (-ī)

### Adjective

چِینِی • (cīnī) (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੀਨੀ)
* Chinese

### Noun

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਚੀਨੀ)
* Chinese (language)
* sugar

## Urdu
### Etymology

From چین (cīn, “China”) +‎ ـی (-ī)

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t͡ʃiː.niː/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Adjective

چِینِی • (cīnī) (Hindi spelling चीनी)
* Chinese

### Noun

چِینِی • (cīnī) m or f (Hindi spelling चीनी)
* Chinese (person)

#### Declension

Masculine:
Feminine:

### Noun

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Hindi spelling चीनी)
* Chinese (language)

### Noun

چِینِی • (cīnī) f (Hindi spelling चीनी)
* sugar

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu چینی (čīnī).

### Noun

چینی (čīnī)
* sugar