chino

From American Spanish pantalones chinos ("Chinese pants"), which was later shortened to simply chinos.

chino (countable and uncountable, plural chinos)

1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

• camisa de chino

• Chino cloth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Choni, chion-, ichno-

chino

1. neuter of chinu

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: chì‧no

From the short past participle of chinare (“to bend”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle chinato.[1]

chino (feminine china, masculine plural chini, feminine plural chine)

1. lowered, bent, bowed

   Synonyms: curvo, piegato

chino

1. first-person singular present indicative of chinare

• Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.

chino m (plural chinos)

1. (Madeira) Synonym of abatanado
2. (informal) knife

• chinar

chino

1. first-person singular present indicative of chinar

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃino/ [ˈt͡ʃi.no]

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: chi‧no

From China +‎ -o.

Variety stores are called chinos because almost all variety stores in Spain are run by Chinese people.

chino (feminine china, masculine plural chinos, feminine plural chinas)

1. Chinese

chino m (plural chinos, feminine china, feminine plural chinas)

1. Chinese person

chino m (plural chinos)

1. Chinese (language)
2. (colloquial) gobbledygook (an incomprehensible language)
3. (colloquial, Cuba, uncountable) chickenpox

   Synonym: varicela

4. (colloquial) a Chinese-run establishment
   1. a Chinese restaurant

      Synonym: chifa

   2. (Spain) (US) variety store, dollar store, dime store, five-and-dime, (UK) pound shop (owned by a Chinese immigrant)

      Synonyms: bazar chino, (Spain, dated) todo a cien, (Argentina) todo por dos pesos, (Chile) todo a 1000, (Chile) todo a luca

5. (colloquial, Spain) heroin (taken by chasing the dragon)

Use of enchinar (“to pave”), from en- + china.

chino (feminine china, masculine plural chinos, feminine plural chinas)

1. curly

chino m (plural chinos, feminine china, feminine plural chinas)

1. someone with curly hair

From Kichwa/Quechua china (“servant girl”).

chino m (plural chinos)

1. (Colombia) kid
2. (Latin America) boy, servant

   Tengo que llevar a los chinos al colegio.

   I have to take the kids to school.

   Apúrate chino Juan que a la fila llaman ya.

   Hurry up little John, because they're calling attendance already.

• enchinar

• “chino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014