Ningsia

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).

Proper noun

Ningsia

1. Obsolete spelling of Ningxia.
   • 1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins‎^[1], volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?:

     Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.

   • 1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum‎^[2], J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

     "Where?"
     "To Ningsia."
     "Ningsia?"
     "You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia."

   • 1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3:

     A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.

Translations

Ningxia — see Ningxia

References

• “Ningsia, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Ningsia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Giannis, singani