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Kümüx
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Kumux
English
thumb|Map including Kümüx (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1990)
Alternative forms
en Kumux
Etymology
Borrowed from en ug كۈمۈش meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.
Pronunciation
en /kuˈmuʃ/
Proper noun
en town county/Toksun prefecture/Turpan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China.
en 1996 Zhou Zhiyi; W. T. Dean Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China https://books.google.com/books?id=4E7qZz0PtVcC Beijing w:Science Press 7-03-005161-0 906743413 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=4E7qZz0PtVcC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11 From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.
en 1998 w:Anne Mustoe Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World https://books.google.com/books?id=Fb8kYlh10IcC w:Random House 1-85310-970-3 42835551 114 https://books.google.com/books?id=Fb8kYlh10IcC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114 I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.
en residential community town/Kümüx county/Toksun prefecture/Turpan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China.
Synonyms
from Mandarin Chinese en Kumishi, en K'u-mi-shih
Translations
town; residential community
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 庫米什 Kùmǐshí
Japanese: ja
Uyghur: ug كۈمۈش
Further reading
Kumux, Kumishi