Karakoram

English Alternative forms en Karakorum Caracorum Etymology Ultimately from a en trk language, literally meaning "black gravel". See ota قره qara black and possibly ota قوروم kurum soot (tr kurum) and compare ur قراقرم qarāquram / ur قرہ قرم qara quram. Pronunciation en /ˌkɑː.ɹəˈkɔː.ɹəm/ /ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔː.ɹəm/ UK en /ˌkɑɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/ /ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/ US kă′rə-kō′rəm kä′rə-kō′rəmKarakoram or Karakorum 911 1 kär′ə-kôr′əmKarakorum 372 1 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Karakoram.wav Southern England Proper noun A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world. en 1912 w:Curtis's Botanical Magazine https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002722376/ 8 8441 https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002722376/page/8441/ The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level. en 1912 Filippo De Filippi Introduction Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909 https://archive.org/details/karakoramwestern00defiuoft/ New York w:E. P. Dutton and Company 977976590 22884138M xvii https://archive.org/details/karakoramwestern00defiuoft/page/n24/ To reach the Karakoram the expedition had to cross the vast mountainous region which lies between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, taking a different route each way. en July 7, 2020 AIJAZ HUSSAIN; EMILY SCHMALL; SAM MCNEIL Indian, Chinese soldiers move away from site of deadly clash https://web.archive.org/web/20220518092319/https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-india-69e6223801f4e7ce72b433bc66e5f9c2 18 May 2022 w:AP News The two sides also appeared to have dismantled recent construction along the river valley high in the Karakoram mountains, satellite images showed. en Derived terms en K2, en Karakoram Highway, en Trans-Karakoram Tract Translations mountain range Altai: Southern Altai: alt Каракорум Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 喀喇崑崙 Kālākūnlún Czech: cs Karákóram, cs Karákoram Hindi: hi काराकोरम m Italian: it Karakorum m Odia: or କାରାକୋରମ Polish: pl Karakorum n Turkish: tr Karakurum Urdu: ur قَراقُرَم qarāquram m, ur قَرَہ قُرَم qara quram m References Further reading Karakoram, Karakorum en 1998 Karakoram Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1504 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/1504/ 3 en Mountains Places in China