name
Meaning 1
A city and district in Saladin governorate, northern Iraq.
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Standard Lemma guide
baiji
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/ˈbaɪd͡ʒi/
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noun
Meaning 2
A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River, and declared functionally extinct in 2006.
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of bai ji.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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History
Etymology
From Arabic بَيْجِي (bayjī).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (báijìtún).
From Mandarin 白芨 (báijī).
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَيْجِي (bayjī) — city in Iraq
- Czech: Bajdží — city in Iraq
- French: Baïji — city in Iraq
- German: Baidschi — city in Iraq
- Central Kurdish: بێجی (bêcî) — city in Iraq
- Polish: Bajdżi — city in Iraq
- Russian: Байджи (Bajdži) — city in Iraq
- Azerbaijani: çin çay delfini — freshwater dolphin
- Breton: delfin sina — freshwater dolphin
- Catalan: dofí del Iang-tsé — freshwater dolphin
- Catalan: dofí de riu xinès — freshwater dolphin
- Chinese Cantonese: 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (baak6 gei6 tyun4) — freshwater dolphin
- Chinese Cantonese: 白鰭豚 /白鳍豚 (baak6 kei4 tyun4) — freshwater dolphin
- Chinese Mandarin: 白鱀豚 /白𬶨豚 (báijìtún) — freshwater dolphin
- Chinese Mandarin: 白鰭豚 /白鳍豚 (báiqítún) — freshwater dolphin
- Czech: delfínovec čínský — freshwater dolphin
- Danish: kinesisk floddelfin — freshwater dolphin
- Dutch: chinese vlagdolfijn — freshwater dolphin
- Esperanto: blanknaĝila delfeno — freshwater dolphin
- Finnish: kiinanjokidelfiinni — freshwater dolphin
- French: baiji — freshwater dolphin
- French: dauphin de Chine — freshwater dolphin
- French: dauphin du Yangzi — freshwater dolphin
- German: Baiji — freshwater dolphin
- German: Chinesische Flussdelfin — freshwater dolphin
- Hungarian: kínai delfin — freshwater dolphin
- Irish: deilf na hIaing-tsí — freshwater dolphin
- Italian: lipote — freshwater dolphin
- Japanese: ヨウスコウカワイルカ (yōsukōkawairuka) — freshwater dolphin
- Kazakh: байцзи (baiszi) — freshwater dolphin
- Korean: 양쯔강돌고래 (yangjjeugangdolgorae) — freshwater dolphin
- Lithuanian: kininis ežerinis delfinas — freshwater dolphin
- Norwegian Bokmål: kinesisk elvedelfin — freshwater dolphin
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kinesisk elvedelfin — freshwater dolphin
- Polish: baji chiński — freshwater dolphin
- Polish: delfin chiński — freshwater dolphin
- Portuguese: golfinho-lacustre-chinês — freshwater dolphin
- Romanian: delfinul chinezesc — freshwater dolphin
- Russian: байцзи́ (bajczí) — freshwater dolphin
- Scots: Cheenese river dowphin — freshwater dolphin
- Slovene: jangceška pliskavka — freshwater dolphin
- Slovene: kitajski rečni delfin — freshwater dolphin
- Spanish: baiji — freshwater dolphin
- Spanish: delfín chino de río — freshwater dolphin
- Swedish: asiatisk floddelfin — freshwater dolphin
- Thai: โลมาแม่น้ําจีน (loh-maa mâe náam jeen) — freshwater dolphin
- Turkish: çin nehir yunusu — freshwater dolphin
- Ukrainian: дельфін озерний (delʹfin ozernyj) — freshwater dolphin