Etymology

Qiang

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Today it means: An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Full definition →

Mandarin 羌
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from羌
  2. English todayQiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 羌 (Qiāng).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.