Ningxia

See also: Níngxià

English

Alternative forms

• Ning-hsia, Ninghsia (Wade–Giles)
• Ningsia

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寧夏 / 宁夏 (Níngxià).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪŋˈʃjɑː/, enPR: nǐngʹshyäʹ

Proper noun

Ningxia

1. A Hui autonomous region in China. Official name: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Capital: Yinchuan. [from late 20th c.]
   • 1979, Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Stephen Andors, “Land and Population”, in Encyclopedia of China Today‎^[3], Eurasia Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:

     In 1955, the trans-Mongolian railroad was inaugurated and in 1958 the Baotou line was extended to Lanzhou in Gansu, passing through Ningxia.

   • 1993, A. Doak Barnett, “Han and Hui: Ningxia”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change‎^[4], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:

     FROM Baotou, China’s interior trunk line goes west and then south to one of China’s main concentrations of Muslims, in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. My train left Baotou at 9:16 A.M., and the 317-mile trip took slightly over 10 hours; we arrived at 7:30 P.M., just 19 minutes late, at Ningxia's capital, Yinchuan.

   • 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[5], archived from the original on 10 August 2018, Asia‎^[6]:

     Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.

   • 2019 September 10, Dominique Patton, “China reports new African swine fever case in Ningxia”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 05 May 2022, Health News‎^[8]:

     China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported a new case of African swine fever on a farm in the northwestern region of Ningxia on Tuesday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ningxia.

Synonyms

• (abbreviation) NHAR

Translations

Hui autonomous region of China

• Arabic: نِينْغْشْيَا f (ninḡšyā)
• Armenian: Նինսյա (Ninsya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寧夏 / 宁夏 (ning⁴ haa⁶)

  Dungan: نٍ شيَا

  Mandarin: 寧夏 / 宁夏 (zh) (Níngxià)

• Czech: Ning-sia
• Finnish: Ningxia
• Georgian: ნინსია (ninsia)
• Greek: Νινγκσιά (Ningksiá)
• Hungarian: Ninghszia (hu), Ninghszia-Huj (hu)
• Japanese: 寧夏 (ねいか, Neika)
• Korean: 닝샤 (Ningsya), 영하 (ko) (Yeongha), 녕하 (Nyeongha)
• Latvian: Ninsja
• Lithuanian: Ningsia
• Macedonian: Нингсја (Ningsja)
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠩ
  ᡥᡳᠶᠠ (ning hiya)
• Portuguese: Ningxia f
• Russian: Нинся́ m or f (Ninsjá), Ни́нся m or f (Nínsja)
• Uyghur: نىڭشيا (ningshya)
• Vietnamese: Ninh Hạ (vi)
• Zhuang: Ningzya

Further reading

• “Ningxia”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Ningxia, Ninghsia, Ning-hsia, Ningsia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Ningxia Huizu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ningxia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Ningxia” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2190, column 1: “The name sometimes appears as Ninghsia Hui; also known as Ning.”

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ningxia f

1. Ningxia (an autonomous region of China)