Gobi

gọbi gobi Góbi English Gobi Desert Alternative forms en Cobi Cobe obsolete en Kobi obsolete en Gobee Goby obsolete Etymology From en mn Говь or mn ^ᠭᠣᠪᠢ. Pronunciation en /ˈɡoʊ.bi/ GA gō′bēGobi or Gobi Desert 690 3Go·bi 281 1 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gobi.wav Southern England en goby Proper noun 1 en Q42070en large desert cont/Asia spanning the countries of c/Mongolia and c/China. en December 21, 1901 Science and Industry The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal https://archive.org/details/friendreligiousl190103smit/ LXXV 23 1310895570 181 https://archive.org/details/friendreligiousl190103smit/page/n198/ 1 In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold. en 1951 w:Herbert Hoover The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920 https://archive.org/details/memoirsofherbert0000hoov/ New York w:Macmillan Company 901053599 10587103M 44 https://archive.org/details/memoirsofherbert0000hoov/page/44/ These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship. en August 24, 1975 Picasso, Chinese artists in Taipei show https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-08-24_16_33/ Free China Weekly XVI 33 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-08-24_16_33/page/n1/ In 1941, Chang traveled to the remote Gobi Desert in Northwest China and lived in the Tun Huang Caves for two years and seven months. en 2013 Moly Aloian The Gobi Desert Deserts Around the World https://archive.org/details/gobidesert0000aloi/ Crabtree Publishing Company 9780778707189 2012029159 792881572 4 https://archive.org/details/gobidesert0000aloi/page/4/ The Gobi Desert is a large desert in Asia. It covers about 500,000 square miles (1,294,994 sq km), stretching from the Tien Shan Mountains in the west and across southeastern Mongolia and northern China. en 2013 w:Al Gore Outgrowth The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/ New York w:Random House 9780812992946 2012039890 827202765 193 https://archive.org/details/futuresixdrivers0000gore_k5o2/page/193/ The same livestock population explosion is damaging the overgrazed grasslands surrounding China’s Gobi Desert, where the dust storms are also increasing dramatically. en December 16, 2022 w:Keith Bradsher A Visit Inside China’s Desert Rocket Base w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20221216184352/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/science/china-rocket-launch.html 16 December 2022 0362-4331 1645522 Science In November, I visited China’s rocket base deep in the frozen Gobi Desert to witness the launch of three astronauts during the Shenzhou 15 mission to China’s new space station. en 03/22/2023 China: Sandstorms blanket Beijing as air pollution spikes https://web.archive.org/web/20230322170255/https://www.dw.com/en/china-sandstorms-blanket-beijing-as-air-pollution-spikes/a-65074736 22 March 2023 https://www.dw.com/en/china-sandstorms-blanket-beijing-as-air-pollution-spikes/a-65074736 w:Deutsche Welle Beijing regularly faces dust storms in March and April due to its proximity to the Gobi desert as well as deforestation throughout northern China. en Synonyms en Shamo, en Desert of Shamo obsolete Derived terms en Gobi argali Translations desert Arabic: ar جُوبِي m gūbī Chinese: Cantonese: yue 戈壁 Mandarin: cmn 戈壁 Gēbì, cmn 戈壁沙漠 Gēbì shāmò French: fr Gobi m German: de Gobi f Hindi: hi गोबी मरुस्थल Irish: ga Góibí f, ga Gaineamhlach Ghóibí m Italian: it Gobi m Japanese: ja ゴビ Gobi, ja ゴビ砂漠 ゴビさばく, Gobi sabaku Kalmyk: xal Һөв Kazakh: kk Қобы Korean: ko ^고비, ko ^고비 사막 Kyrgyz: ky Гоби Manchu: mnc ᡤᠣᠪᡳ Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Говь Mongolian script: mn ^ᠭᠣᠪᠢ Norwegian: no Gobiørkenen Persian: fa گبی gobi Portuguese: pt Gobi m Russian: ru Го́би f, ru пусты́ня Го́би f Spanish: es Gobi m Swedish: sv Gobiöknen c Tajik: tg Габи Tamil: ta கோபி Uzbek: uz Gobi Vietnamese: vi sa mạc Gô bi References Further reading en 2008 Gobi Desert Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1377 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1377/ 1 pn Gobi Desert Anagrams en bgio Igbo big O biog biog. en Asia Places in China Places in Mongolia German de: Pronunciation de /ɡoːbi/ de De-Gobi.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Go bi Proper noun f a desert in China and Mongolia; Gobi Synonyms dated: de Schamo Further reading de Asia Places in China Places in Mongolia Deserts