Pequin

See also: pequin and Pequín

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Pequin.

Proper noun

Pequin (plural Pequins)

1. A surname from French.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pequin is the 662747^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 16 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pequin”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pequin

1. Obsolete form of Peking (“Chinese capital city”).
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎^[1], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

     That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Pequin

1. Beijing (the capital city of China)

Occitan

Proper noun

Pequin m

1. Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)

Derived terms

• pequinés