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Kashi
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kashi Kāshí ƙashi
English
Kashgar
thumb|ug قەشقەرzh 喀什KA SHI
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 喀什 Kāshí, short for 喀什噶爾, from en mnc ᡴᠠᠰᡳᡤᠠᡵ, from en xwo ᡍᠠᠱᡅᡎᠠᠷ, from en fa-cls کاشغر Kāšġar.
Alternative forms
en K'a-shih Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
en /ˈkɑː.ʃi/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kashi.wav Southern England
kä′shœ′
en Ka shi
Proper noun
en Kashgar: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
en 07 April 1988 30 March 1988 Spread of Non-Type A-Non-Type B Hepatitis in Southern Xinjiang Now Under Control Daily Report: China https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049008850&seq=351 67 Urumqi/Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE zh w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 0892-0141 1113433 Regional Affairs 54 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049008850&seq=410 2 In September 1986, in Duolu Township, which is in Hetan Prefecture's Luopu County in Southern Xinjiang, people began to contract the communicable non-Type A-non-Type B enteric hepatitis. The disease spread to some of the rural areas in Hetan, Kashi, and Kizilsu.
en 1990 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-12-mn-3265-story.html COLUMN ONE : An Islamic Challenge to China : Officials fear the spread of fundamentalism in the westernmost region. They toughen controls on religious life and suppress secessionist activities. David Holley w:Los Angeles Times In the dusty bazaar streets of Kashi, also known as Kashgar, Uighur hatred of Chinese authorities runs deep. Many here believe that more than 100 died fighting Chinese troops last spring in the nearby town of Baren. https://web.archive.org/web/20260906165709/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-12-mn-3265-story.html 6 September 2026
en https://archive.org/details/biostor-250947/ 1992 Recent observations from Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China, 16 June to 5 July 1988 Richard Grimmett; Helen Taylor Forktail (journal) Forktail 7 139 W. L. Abbott visited the northern Tarim Basin in the autumn of 1893 (Richmond 1895) and F. Ludlow collected in the northern basin between Kashi (Kashgar) and Jam near Aksu between 17 November 1929 and 13 April 1930, and again from 15 to 29 September 1930, and also documented the observations and collections of G. Sherriff (Ludlow and Kinnear 1933-1934).
en 01/08/2018 w:Shohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes Uyghur Detentions Continue in Xinjiang, Despite Pledge to End With Party Congress w:Radio Free Asia https://web.archive.org/web/20180109003404/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detentions-01082018164453.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detentions-01082018164453.html January 09, 2018 An official from neighboring Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture’s Poskam (Zepu) county, who also asked to remain unnamed, told RFA that authorities have been instructed to “make sure that everything is safe” while patrolling the streets of the county, and that they had been provided with notebooks including a list of “the names and pictures of individuals on record” to be detained.
Synonyms
en K'o-shih
Translations
Kashgar
Etymology 2
From en sa काशी.
Proper noun
en Varanasi.
en 2024-4-30 w:The New Indian Express Kashi: A Date With The Present In the mind of India, Varanasi or Kashi is an ancient space suspended in an unbroken continuum, not a project under construction. https://web.archive.org/web/20240430040410/https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Apr/30/kashi-a-date-with-the-present
Further reading
Anagrams
en ahiks Ishak Khasi Shaik akhis ashik haiks shaik
Finnish
Etymology
From the fi cmn-pinyin - romanization of fi cmn 喀什 Kāshí.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Kašgar
Declension
Kash a sg