Etymology

Kyzyl Kum

Today it means: a large desert in Central Asia in the doab between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, divided between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Full definition →

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The story

From Turkic, literally “Red Sand”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.