Candia

n. 干地亚（地名）

发音

/ˈkæn.di.ə/

别名

Candie Candy Candi Kandy

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    The Mediterranean island of Crete.

    历史
  2. 2.

    The Cretan city of Heraklion.

    历史
  3. 3.

    A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

  4. 1.

    The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka.

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  5. 2.

    The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.

    历史

    1800, William Johnston, A Voyage to the East Indies by Paulinus of St. Bartholomew, London: J. Davis, Book 2, Chapter 12, p. 428, Not far from the city of Candia, where the king of Ceylon generally resides, is a river which flows down from one of the mountains.

词源

From Venetan or Latin, from Ancient Greek Χάνδαξ (Khándax) or Χάνδακας (Khándakas), from Arabic رَبْض الخَنْدَق (rabḍ al-ḵandaq) (in particular Arabic خَنْدَق (ḵandaq), borrowed from Middle Persian *handag (whence Classical Persian هندک (handak, “moat”))), name of the Cretan city of Heraklion under the Emirate of Crete.

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