Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Makit.
A black and white reproduction of a Uyghur farmer propaganda poster from Mekit County, Kashgar Prefecture, in 1975.
2017 April 20, Darren Byler, “Imagining Re-Engineered Muslims in Northwest China”, in Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, page 22 more examples
A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
2013, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead”, in Dolkun Kamberi, Luisetta Mudie, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free AsiaZumrat Dawut, 38, a Uighur female activist, told VOA that her neighbors, the Nurehmets from Mekit, Xinjiang, had to agree to wed their 18-year-old daughter to a Han Chinese out of fear that they could be sent to internment camps.
2020, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America
Origin
- Uyghurمەكىت
- EnglishMekit
Borrowed from Uyghur مەكىت (mekit).
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Mekit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mekit
“Mekit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mekit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mekit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mekit.
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