Kitan

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A form of Khitan — A member of the Mongolic people who ruled Manchuria, then northern China as the Liao, then Central Asia as the Qara Khitais, from the 9th to 13th century C.E.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Khitan.

    ...the name of the Kitan people has had quite a history by itself. During the 13th century China, or rather Northern China, became known in the Near East and in Europe as Cathay or Catai, a name derived from the ethnic term Kitan.

    1990, Herbert Franke, "The Forest Peoples of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens" in The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Vol. I, p. 400
nounKitan (plural Kitans or Kitan)

plural Kitans

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Khitan.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

takinAtkinAnkitKintaKatni
Cite this entry
APA

Kitan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitan

MLA

“Kitan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kitan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitan.

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