Karamay

karamay English Etymology Borrowed from en ug قاراماي, from ug قارا black + ug ماي oil. Alternatively, from kk қара + kk май. Named after the now scenic spot Black Oil Mountain (in Chinese zh 黑油山) 2 kilometres away from the city centre. Proper noun en prefecture-level city in northern ar/Xinjiang c/China. en 1986 W G Harvey A Taste of Karamay https://archive.org/details/bulletinoriental4198unse/ Oriental Bird Club Bulletin 4 0268-9634 776865153 8 https://archive.org/details/bulletinoriental4198unse/page/8/ On 18 June 1985 I spent three hours birdwatching at an artificial lake near the power station in the Karamay Oilfield in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, PeoplesPeople's Republic of China. The site is approximately 46°N, 85°E, close to the oil town of Karamay and within 300 kms of the border with Kazakhstan in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It is a desert region with rocky outcrops, dry ravines, rock and gravel desert plains, and saline flats. en 2011 Kenneth Pletcher The Geography of China https://archive.org/details/geographyofchina0000unse/ w:Britannica Educational Publishing 978-1-61530-134-8 2010002170 705979105 263 https://archive.org/details/geographyofchina0000unse/page/263/ In 1955 a large petroleum field was discovered at Karamay, to the north in the Junggar Basin; it was brought into production in 1958-59 and has since become one of China’s major domestic sources of oil. en https://archive.org/details/The_Economist_August_29_2015/ August 29, 2015 The Bean and the Bubble w:The Economist 416 8953 0013-0613 824602530 27 https://archive.org/details/The_Economist_August_29_2015/page/n26/ This month he is in the news because the city of Karamay in western China is unveiling a sculpture that looks very similar to “Cloud Gate”, a no-tonne stainless-steel structure nicknamed the Bean, in Chicago’s Millennium Park, that is popular with Chicagoans and tourists alike....Determining “fair use” is complicated and to some extent subjective, but a prerequisite is that the artist accused of borrowing (or stealing in the Kapoor controversy) admits to using another artist’s art. That is not the case with “Big Oil Bubble” as the Karamay sculpture is called. Its defenders say that it was inspired by the city’s natural oil well (Karamay means black oil in Uighur, the local language) and that the blobs around the sculpture represent little oil bubbles. en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Kelamayi, en K'o-la-ma-i Translations Karamay, Xinjiang, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 克拉瑪依 Kèlāmǎyī Russian: ru Карама́й Ukrainian: uk Карама́й Uyghur: ug قاراماي Further reading Karamay in Encyclopædia Britannica Karamay, Karamai, Kelamayi, Kolamai en 1998 Karamay 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 1505 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1505/ 2 Also spelled Kelamayi or Karamai.