Loanwords

[Pangu]

I am less certain about 達人, but I highly doubt someone from Beijing, Xi'an or Shanghai would use (or even understand) the term 歐巴桑.

达人 is now very widespread in the Mainland, and there are many talent shows on TV called 达人秀.
秀 itself is also an anglicism ("show") imported through Taiwan.

欧巴桑 is another slang from Taiwan that is becoming to be spread in the Mainland, but it means "annoying old/middle-aged lady".

Wow, that is pretty amazing to me. Good to know, thanks.

[Tara]

Hello everyone, this is Tara and I am a Chinese teacher. I am doing some researches about Chinese language, and I wanna hear other people’s advice, especially our Chinese learners.
Today I wanna collect some useful Chinese words which are directly copied ( sound + meaning) from English.
Here I have some examples:
microphone 麦克风 màikèfēng
sofa 沙发 shāfā
mini 迷你 mínǐ

[linguoboy]

There is a fairly long list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_loanwords_in_Chinese#English.

[Tara]

Thank you for your help.

[OldBoring]

Merged with an existing thread.

[vijayjohn]

葡萄 "grape" < Sanskrit bodhi

From p. 19 of Jerry Norman's book Chinese: "Laufer (1919, 225) derives this word from a hypothetical Iranian prototype *budāwa, related to Modern Persian bāda 'wine'. Actually *bādāwa would appear to be a better and closer reconstruction of the prototype, in light of more recent Old Chinese reconstructions."