蘇門他拉

Chinese

		(plant); place name; revive (plant); place name; revive; Soviet	opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division	he; him; other	to pull; to play (string instruments); to drag to pull; to play (string instruments); to drag; to draw
trad. (蘇門他拉)		蘇	門	他	拉
simp. (苏门他拉)		苏	门	他	拉

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay Sumatra from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra, “sea”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sūméntālā

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨ ㄇㄣˊ ㄊㄚ ㄌㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sūméntālā
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨ ㄇㄣˊ ㄊㄚ ㄌㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Suméntala
    • Wade–Giles: Su¹-mên²-tʻa¹-la¹
    • Yale: Sū-mén-tā-lā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sumentalha
    • Palladius: Сумэньтала (Sumɛnʹtala)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵⁵ mən³⁵ tʰä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵/

Proper noun

蘇門他拉

1. (obsolete) Sumatra

   • 蘇門他拉，此為長島，與牙瓦島以孫他海峽相隔。 [MSC, trad.]
     苏门他拉，此为长岛，与牙瓦岛以孙他海峡相隔。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1843, 魏源 (Wei Yuan), 《海國圖志·卷十五 》 (Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms)

     Sūméntālā, cǐ wèi cháng dǎo, yǔ Yáwǎ dǎo yǐ Sūntā hǎixiá xiànggé. [Pinyin]

     Sumatra is the "long island", and is separated from Java by the Sunda Strait.