Χανιά

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek Χανιά (Khaniá), from Arabic الخان (al-ḵān) + -ιά (-iá, “-ia: forming place names”), literally from ال (al-, “the, place of the”) + خان (ḵān, “caravanserai, inn”) but possibly transliterating a neighborhood whose named derived from its former importance in the worship of the Minoan god Velchanos, whose Minoan name was transcribed into Ancient Greek as Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈɲa/

Proper noun

Χανιά • (Chaniá) n pl

1. Chania (a city on the island of Crete in Greece)

Declension

	plural
nominative	Χανιά (Chaniá)
genitive	Χανίων (Chaníon)
accusative	Χανιά (Chaniá)
vocative	Χανιά (Chaniá)

Derived terms

• Χανιώτης (Chaniótis)
• χανιώτικος (chaniótikos)
• Χανιώτισσα (Chaniótissa)

 

Descendants

• English: Hania

References

• Nikolaos Platon (1947), Κρητικά Χρονικά Α [Kretika Chronika 1].