Kitai

Etymology
From, from  or , Khitai(n), probably via. Cognate with and 🇨🇬.

Proper noun

 * , in its various senses.
 * 1) * c. 1913, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, page 738:
 * ḲARA KH ITĀI (or Ḳ ARĀ  K H IṬĀI ), the usual name since the vith (xiith) century in Muḥammadan sources for the Kitai people, mentioned by the Chinese from the eighth century A. D. onwards, who were probably Tunguz (according to another view Mongol)... From the beginning of the tenth century the Kitai carried on a campaign of conquest, conquered the northern part of China and founded a dynasty which as a Chinese ruling house was called Liao (916).

Etymology
From Giovanni da Pian del Carpine's transcription of, probably via.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The Khitans: a former nomadic people of central Asia.
 * 2) * 1246, John de Plano Carpini, The Voyage of Johannes de Plano Carpini vnto the Northeast parts of the world, in the yeere of our Lord, 1246, Ch. 5, page 54:
 * "la"

- Naymani & Kara Kitai, id est, nigri Kitai, ex adverso in quandam vallem strictam inter montes duos, per quam nos euntes ad imperatorem eorum transiuimus, similiter conueniunt: & commissum est praelium, in quo Naymani & Kara Kitai a Mongallis sunt deuicti, & maior pars eorum occisa: & alii qui euadere non potuerunt in seruitutem redacti sunt.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) China