English Explanatory Dictionary

Tourandocte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A fictional Chinese princess appearing in "Histoire du prince Calaf et de la princesse de la Chine" ('Story of Prince Calaf and the Princess of China') collected in Les Mille et Un Jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix.

Word forms

Tourandocte

Etymology

Borrowed from French Tourandocte, from Classical Persian تُورَاندُخْت (tūrān-duxt, female given name, literally “daugher of Turan”), from a medieval misreading of پُورَاندُخْت (pūrān-duxt), itself from پُورَان (pūrān, female given name) + دُخْت (duxt, “daughter”).

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