Dalian

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大連／大连 (Dàlián), ultimately from Russian Да́льний (Dálʹnij, literally “distant”). Related to the name of the bay called after a village located on the opposite side of the bay.

• Ta-lien, Talien (Wade–Giles)

• IPA^(key): /dɑːliˈæn/, /dɑːliˈɛn/

Dalian

1. A major subprovincial city in Liaoning, in northeastern China.
   • 2022 October 19, Alexandra Stevenson, “For Women in China’s Communist Party, It’s Lonely at the Top”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 October 2022‎:

     In a rare interview, Ms. Sun spoke with pride about her blue collar past. “I come from a worker’s background, and I have a very deep and special feeling for organized labor,” she told the Dalian Daily.
     As party secretary of Dalian, a city in northeastern China, Ms. Sun honed her political acumen.

• (from Japanese) Dairen
• (from Russian) Dalniy
• (historical) Lüda
• (historical) Port Arthur

• Translingual: Daliansaurus

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dalian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 956, column 1

Dalí +‎ -an

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːliən/, /dɑːˈliːən/

Dalian (comparative more Dalian, superlative most Dalian)

1. Of or relating to Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish surrealist painter.

• Dalinian

• -landia

Dalian f

1. Dalian (a major subprovincial city in Liaoning, in northeastern China)