Tian Shan

See also: Tian-Shan

English

Alternative forms

• Tien Shan, Tienshan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation of Mandarin 天山 (Tiān Shān), from Uyghur تەڭرىتاغ (tengritagh, literally “Mountains of God (Tengri)”) (Tengri Tagh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtjɛn ˈʃɑːn/

Proper noun

Tian Shan

1. A mountain range in Central Asia.
   • [1905, Gottfried Merzbacher, The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903‎^[1], London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

     WHEN in 1892, on a journey into Central Asia, I first made acquaintance with a small portion of the Central Tian-Shan, I received, even by a mere flying visit, abiding impressions of its magnificent mountain chains.]

   • [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], numbers 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

   • 2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)‎^[3], →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:

     We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.

   • 2022 June 16, Dave Kindy, “DNA evidence reveals where the Black Death began”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, RETROPOLIS‎^[5]:

     The excavation of the KaraDjigach site, in the Chu-Valley within the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, in August 1886.

Synonyms

• (from Uyghur) Tengri Tagh

Translations

mountain range

• Bengali: তিয়ান সান (tiẏan śan)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天山 (tin¹ saan¹)

  Hokkien: 天山 (Thian-san)

  Mandarin: 天山 (zh) (Tiān-shān)

• Czech: Ťan-šan m
• Finnish: Tienšan (fi)
• Hindi: टीएन शान (ṭīen śān)
• Hungarian: Tien-san (hu)
• Japanese: 天山 (てんざん, Ten-zan, テンシャン, Ten-shan)
• Korean: 톈산(天山) (Tyensan)
• Macedonian: Тјеншан m (Tjenšan)
• Mongolian: Тэнгэр уул (Tenger uul)
• Polish: Tienszan m, Tien-szan m
• Portuguese: Tian-Shan m, Tian Shan m
• Russian: Тянь-Шань (ru) m (Tjanʹ-Šanʹ)
• Turkish: Tanrı Dağları
• Ukrainian: Тянь-Шань m (Tjanʹ-Šanʹ)
• Urdu: تیان شان (tyān śān)
• Uyghur: تەڭرىتاغ (tengritagh), تىيانشان (tiyanshan)
• Vietnamese: Thiên Sơn (天山)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tian Shan m

1. Alternative spelling of Tian-Shan