Uqturpan

English

Alternative forms

• Uchturpan, Uch Turfan, Uch-Turfan, Uch-turfan, Ush Turfan

Etymology

From Uyghur ئۇچتۇرپان (uchturpan).

Proper noun

Uqturpan

1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present]‎^[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 235:

     I met Yao Jichen of the county cultural hall, who had gone west along this road and discovered a beacon tower of Han times at a spot near Bedel Mountain Pass fifty kilometers west of Wushi (Uqturpan) County.

   • 2017, Alan Taylor, “Scenes From Xinjiang”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], archived from the original on 08 May 2017‎^[3]:

     Students from ethnic minorities give the Young Pioneer's salute to their teacher (right) at a primary school in Uqturpan county, Xinjiang on May 3, 2012.

   • 2019 October 27, “No casualties reported in Xinjiang earthquake”, in Li Xia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[4], archived from the original on 30 September 2021‎^[5]:

     No casualties or economic loss have been reported after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit Uqturpan County of Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 1:29 p.m. Sunday.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Wushi, Wu-shih

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏什／乌什 (zh) (Wūshí)

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• Manchu: ᡠᡧᡳ (uši)
• Uyghur: ئۇچتۇرپان (uchturpan)

Further reading

• Uch Turfan, Uch-Turfan, Ush Turfan, Wushi, Wu-shih at Google Ngram Viewer