On Chinese Hui-Muslim elementary vocabulary (1): Prayer terminology
On Chinese Hui-Muslim elementary vocabulary (1): Prayer terminology
Author(s): Sūn Mèngyáo, Michael KnüppelSubject(s): Language studies, Islam studies, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, The Ottoman Empire, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Hui Muslims; Sino-Arabic and Sino-Persian transcriptions; direct and indirect loans; Muslim prayer terminology;
Summary/Abstract: In the article, which forms the first part of a series on Chinese Hui-Muslim religious terminology, the authors are dealing with the Hui Muslim prayer terminology, that can roughly be divided into direct and indirect loans. While the direct loans are borrowings from Arabic or Persian, the indirect loans are formed by the means of the own languages (so-called calques).
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 137/2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 223-228
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English