Meanings
alternative Purang
- A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Kundol Sangmo was with her mother, Dekyi, on the street of Takla Klar Town on 28 April when the incident happened. The town is located in Purang County, Ngari City in the area governed as the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), the most closed part of Tibet.
2022 May 4, “Child snatched from mother by police in central Tibet”, in Free Tibet, archived from the original on 05 May 20221 more example
Some of those infected were members of the same family that had travelled from the southwestern city of Xigaze to Lhasa for a funeral. A day earlier, four tourists in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, who had travelled there from Xigaze, also tested positive for the virus.
2022 August 9, Eunice Yang, “Coronavirus: Tibet’s Potala Palace shut as first Covid-19 cases since 2020 put Lhasa on high alert”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2022, ScienceSynonyms: Pulan
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Origin
- Tibetanསྤུ་ཧྲེང
- EnglishBurang
From Tibetan སྤུ་ཧྲེང (spu hreng).
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Chinese Cantonese 普蘭 /普兰
- 普蘭 /普兰 (pou² laan⁴)county
Chinese Mandarin 普蘭 /普兰
- 普蘭 /普兰 (Pǔlán)county
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Burang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Burang
“Burang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Burang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Burang,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Burang.
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