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Modern historical names are retained as poetic or shorthand names for the island or country and include Xīngzhōu/Seng-chiu (星洲) and Xīngguó/Seng-kok (星國). Xīng, literally "star," is used as a transcription for the first syllable of "Singapore." Zhōu is a term for "island" in this case while guó means "country" or "state."

The Goguryeo language, or Koguryoan, was the language of the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo (37 BCE – 668 CE), one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.Early Chinese histories state that the language was similar to those of Buyeo, Okjeo and Ye.Lee Ki-Moon grouped these four as the Puyŏ languages.The histories also stated that that these languages were different from those …

Answer (1 of 9): Wiktionary: From Late Latin Sinae (“the Chinese”), from Arabic الصين (al-ṣīn, “China, the Chinese”), from Sanskrit चीन (cina ...