Peyziwat

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Uyghur پەيزاۋات (peyzawat).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Peyziwat

  1. Alternative form of Payzawat
    • 2007, Nabijan Tursun, Uyghur Reader‎[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 141:
      In February 2002, in Kashgar district's Maralbéshi and Peyziwat counties, a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake killed 267 people and injured many others.
    • 2017, Gulchehra Hoja, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Children of Detained Uyghurs Face ‘Terrible’ Conditions in Overcrowded Xinjiang Orphanages”, in Mamatjan Juma, Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia‎[2]:
      An official at the Peyziwat county government office refused to answer questions about the children of detained Uyghurs, but a staff member at the Chasa Street neighborhood committee in Kashgar city told RFA that those who have no guardians to care for them are being sent to orphanages.
    • 2018, “China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region”, in Human Rights Watch‎[3]:
      An earlier press article dated October 2016 about an unnamed “big data platform” in Jiashi County (or Peyziwat County), Kashgar Prefecture, says it analyzes geographic, migrant population, fertilizer, gas, vehicle, and other data about people’s daily lives and alerts the police if it discovers any “unusual activity.”

Translations[edit]

Payzawat — see Payzawat
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