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Saghan
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saghan
English
Etymology
From en ug ساغان.
Pronunciation
en
Proper noun
en town county/Yengisar prefecture/Kashgar autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China formerly a township.
en 2016 Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring https://books.google.com/books?id=4X9yDQAAQBAJ 978-90-04-32297-4 1566-7162 967367178 238 As a rule, those coming from Atush, Kashgar city, and surrounding areas first stopped to pray at the Häzriti Begim Mazar in Yengisar's Saghan village before continuing on the Ordam (Fig. 3).
en 2017-09-19 w:Shohret Hoshur; Richard Finney Uyghur Woman Handed 10-Year Prison Term Over Headscarf Claim w:Radio Free Asia https://web.archive.org/web/20170920013455/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/headscarf-09192017174307.html 20 September 2017 Yusupjan, a security worker in Yengisar county’s Saghan village, said his sister’s friend may have been terrified and made up the story in order to save herself from further questioning.
en 2017-11-06 w:Shohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes Families of Uyghur Police Officers Among Those Detained in Xinjiang’s Kashgar w:Radio Free Asia https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/families-11062017162834.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180202191855/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/families-11062017162834.html February 2, 2018 An officer at the Saghan township police station told RFA that at least one other policeman from the township, who had been promoted and served for the last five years as an assistant officer patrolling China’s border, was fired after his relatives were arrested for “extremism.”
Translations
town in Yengisar, Kashgar, Xinjiang
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 薩罕 Sàhǎn
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Uyghur: ug ساغان
Anagrams
en aaghns Hagans Sangha sangha Gahans sangah