米哈

mǐhā
noun #37,046

Meanings

  1. 1 meat (Mongolian loanword, archaic / dialectal)
  2. 2 (also a common transliteration syllable, e.g. for 'Misha')

Examples

Měnggǔ yǔ lǐ bǎ ròu jiàozuò mǐhā.
In Mongolian, meat is called mikha.
Tā de Éguó péngyou xiǎomíng jiào Mǐhā.
His Russian friend's nickname is Misha.

Tips

history
米哈 (also written ) is a transliteration of Mongolian 'miqa(n)' = meat, recorded in Yuan-dynasty texts. The word survives mostly in historical and ethnographic writing about the Yuan or steppe peoples.
usage
In modern subtitles and translated fiction 米哈 is also the standard Chinese rendering of the Russian short name 'Misha' (Михаил/Mikhail).

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