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Luntai
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lúntāi
English
Luntai County
Alternative forms
en Lun-t'ai Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn 輪臺//輪台//轮台.
Pronunciation
lo͝on′tī′Bugur or Bugur Bazar 286 2
en aɪ 2
en Lun tai
Proper noun
en county prefecture/Bayingolin autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China.
en 1925 March J. H. Reynolds Place-names in Sinkiang https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1925-03_65_3/ w:The Geographical Journal London w:Royal Geographical Society LXV 3 242 https://archive.org/details/sim_geographical-journal_1925-03_65_3/page/242/ In many cases, the Postal Guide gives the Chinese name alone. This applies to most small places, and it is not always easy to identify Chinese post offices with Turki villages ; e.g. are Luntai (east of Kucha) and Shanshan (east of Turfan), as shown in the somewhat diagrammatic Postal Atlas of China, identical with the Bugur and Pichan of the Survey of India maps?
en OCTOBER 12, 2014 Michael Martina Policewoman killed in China's Xinjiang - state media Robert Birsel https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144217/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-xinjiang-idAFKCN0I204020141013 11 May 2022 w:Reuters World News In September, state media said police shot dead 40 rioters, some of whom were seeking to blow themselves up, after explosions went off in Luntai county.
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Translations
a county in Xinjiang, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 輪臺, yue 輪台 leon4 toi4
Mandarin: cmn 輪臺, cmn 輪台 Lúntái
Kazakh: kk Бүгір
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Бүхэр
Mongolian script: mn ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠷ
Uyghur: ug بۈگۈر
References
Further reading
en 1998 Luntai Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1805 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1805/ 3 The name sometimes appears as Bügür.
Anagrams
en ailntu Tuinal inlaut unital