Mekit

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Uyghur مەكىت (mekit).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Mekit

  1. Alternative form of Makit
    • 2013, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead”, in Dolkun Kamberi, Luisetta Mudie, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎[1]:
      A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
    • 2017 April 20, Darren Byler, “Imagining Re-Engineered Muslims in Northwest China”, in Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, page 2:
      A black and white reproduction of a Uyghur farmer propaganda poster from Mekit County, Kashgar Prefecture, in 1975.
    • 2020, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America‎[2]:
      Zumrat Dawut, 38, a Uighur female activist, told VOA that her neighbors, the Nurehmets from Mekit, Xinjiang, had to agree to wed their 18-year-old daughter to a Han Chinese out of fear that they could be sent to internment camps.
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