taipan

Etymology 1
From, originally as. Related to, from Japanese.

Noun

 * 1) A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
 * 2)  A tycoon
 * 1)  A tycoon
 * 1)  A tycoon

Usage notes
Relatively narrow usage, and somewhat dated (early/mid 20th century); primarily known outside of China due to use in fiction set in Hong Kong, notably The Taipan (1922) by and Tai-Pan (1966) by. Even in Hong Kong, the more globally widespread (and distantly related) is more common today.

Etymology 2


From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, or from (or dhayban ).

Noun

 * 1) Any venomous elapid snake of the genus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

Translations

 * Belarusian: тайпаны
 * Bulgarian: тайпан
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 太攀蛇
 * Czech: taipan
 * Finnish: myrkkytarhakäärme, taipaanit
 * German: Taipane
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 타이판독사
 * Lithuanian: taipanai
 * Portuguese: taipan
 * Russian: тайпа́н
 * Serbo-Croatian: тајпан
 * Slovene: tajpan
 * Thai: สกุลงูไทปัน
 * Turkish: taipan
 * Wik-Mungkan: thaypan

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , : A wealthy and powerful business person.

Noun

 * 1)  venomous snake of the genus