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china

/ˈt͡ʃina/

noun, feminine/ˈt͡ʃina/plural: chinas

pebble, small stone (usually rounded); slingshot

From the infantile/nursery word chin, a children's guessing game.

noun, feminine/ˈt͡ʃina/plural: chinas

female equivalent of chino (“Chinese man”); china (porcelain); orange, sweet orange; chickenpox

Synonyms: varicela

noun, feminine/ˈt͡ʃina/plural: chinas

female servant in a hacienda; babysitter

Synonyms: niñera

Borrowed from Quechua china (“female”).

noun, feminine/ˈt͡ʃina/plural: chinas

orange (fruit)

Literally, “the Chinese”. Allusion to the orange fruit's Asian origin (as in sinensis in Citrus sinensis).