English Explanatory Dictionary

Baotou

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A prefecture-level city, the largest city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in northern China.

Pronunciation

/baʊ.toʊ/ bouʹtōʹ

Word forms

Baotou Pao-t'ou Paotow

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 包頭 /包头 (Bāotóu), from Mongolian ᠪᠤᠭᠤᠲᠤ (buɣutu, “haunt of deer”), from ᠪᠤᠭᠤ (buɣu, “deer”) / буга (buga) + -ᠲᠤ (-tu, “with…”) / -т (-t, “ornative case suffix”).

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