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Hami
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hami Hāmì Ha-mi
English
Hami Prefecture
Alternative forms
en Ha-mi also from _ Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn - 哈密 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Ha¹-mi⁴, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Pronunciation
hä′mē′Hami 751 1 Hami (hä′mē′), Uigur Kumul (Qumul) or Komul (Qomul) (all: kōmo͞ol′),
en Ha mi
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city in eastern ar/Xinjiang c/China.
en 1913 Thomas Cochrane Chapter XXI. Survey of the Missionary Occupation of China https://archive.org/details/surveyofmissiona00coch/ Shanghai w:Christian Literature Society for China 8626183 332 https://archive.org/details/surveyofmissiona00coch/page/332/ Tulufan or Turfan and Fayuan or Kucheng lie to the east of the capital. Hami, an oasis in the desert, is yet nearer the eastern boundary of the province and is an important post on the chief road into China proper.
en 1937 Sir Eric Teichman Journey to Turkistan https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.33669/ w:Hodder and Stoughton 716256713 27 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.33669/page/n31/ THE decision having been reached to send me to Sinkiang, the question arose as to how I was to get there. Urumchi can be reached from three directions ; from Kashmir in India across the Himalaya, Karakoram and Pamir to Kashgar, and thence a further journey of near a thousand miles through Eastern Turkistan to Urumchi ; from China across the Gobi desert to Hami and thence on across the T'ien Shan range to Urumchi ; and via the Trans-Siberian and Turkistan-Siberian railways through Russian Central Asia to the Chinese frontier town of Chuguchak (Ta-ch'eng) and thence by cart or motor truck across the Dzungarian steppe to Urumchi.
en Food https://web.archive.org/web/20180329140821/http://enwww.e-land.gov.tw/cp.aspx?n=D6A90EDB6338ED45 29 March 2018 Yilan County Government The Hami melon, native to the Hami Region of Sinjiang Province, has found a new home here in Jhuangwei, Yilan. The soil downstream of the Lanyang River is great for the cultivation of hami melon because of the plentiful sunshine, excellent water system, and the local mild weather. The Hami melon was introduced to Jhuangwei in 1982.
en 2021-03-03 w:Shohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes RFA Uyghur Service Editor’s Brothers Confirmed Detained by Xinjiang Authorities Uyghur Service https://web.archive.org/web/20210304024111/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/brothers-03032021193155.html 04 March 2021 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/brothers-03032021193155.html w:Radio Free Asia Sulaiman’s older brother Ehet, the 57-year-old director of the Tengritagh Township Teaching District in Kumul (in Chinese, Hami) prefecture, and his younger brother Ehmet, the 39-year-old head of Kumul’s Tengritagh township, have both been detained since 2018, RFA recently learned after interviewing several local officials.
en July 26, 2021 William J. Broad; w:David E. Sanger A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210726234709/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/politics/china-nuclear-weapons.html 0362-4331 1645522 Politics The new silos are clearly being built to be discovered. The most recent silo field, on which construction began in March, is in the eastern part of the Xinjiang region, not far from one of China’s notorious “re-education” camps in the city of Hami.
Synonyms
en Khamil, en Hamil, en Kumul, en Qumul
Derived terms
en Hami melon
Translations
city in Xinjiang, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 哈密 haa1 mat6
Mandarin: cmn 哈密 Hāmì
Japanese: ja
Kazakh: kk Құмыл
Korean: ko
Manchu: mnc ᡥᠠᠮᡳ hami
Mongolian:
Classical Mongolian: mn ᠬᠠᠮᠢᠯ
Cyrillic: mn Хамил
Russian: ru Хами́ m, ru Кумул m
Tocharian A: xto Cumuḍa m
Ukrainian: uk Хамі
Uyghur: ug قۇمۇل
Cyrillic: ug Қумул
Latin: ug Qumul
References
Further reading
en 1998 Hami 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 1223 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1223/ 2
Anagrams
en ahim MIHA Miah hiam
en 2-syllable words
Tokelauan
Etymology
From tkl poz-pol-pro *sami. Cognates include to hami and sm Sami.
Pronunciation
'Hami
tkl Ha mi
Noun
tkl noun
tkl only in compounds sea
Derived terms
tkl Hami Tahemānia
References
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Turkish
Etymology
tr :inh ota:حامی + 1 Compare ar حَامِيّ.
Proper noun
tr male Arabic