Etymology

Da Qaidam

Today it means: An administrative zone in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 大 ← Tibetan ཚྭ་འདམ
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The story

  1. Tibetan · borrowed fromཚྭ་འདམ“salt marsh”
  2. Mandarin · borrowed from大“big, great”
  3. English todayDa Qaidam

From Mandarin 大 (dà, “big, great”) + Tibetan ཚྭ་འདམ (tshwa 'dam, “salt marsh”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.