Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Payzawat.
In Peyzawat, in China's Xinjiang region, children play outside the entrance to a school ringed with barbed wire, security cameras and barricades near a sign which reads "Please use the nation's common language.”
2018, Fred Hiatt, “China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back.”, in Washington Post2 more examples
The two dead and wounded officers all belong to the Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, according to police and the chief nurse at Peyzawat [in Chinese, Jiashi] county hospital. “All of them were stabbed,” the nurse said.
2008, Shohret and Gulchira, Ding Xiao, Sarah Jackson-Han, “Police Killed in New Xinjiang Clash”, in Omer Kanat, transl., Radio Free AsiaThe China Earthquake Networks Center reported that a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the region at 9:21 p.m. at a depth of 16 kilometers (10 miles). The quake’s epicenter was 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Peyzawat County and shaking was felt in the cities of Kashgar and Artux, the agency said.
2020, “Strong quake hits China’s far west Xinjiang region”, in Associated Press
Origin
- Uyghurپەيزاۋات
- EnglishPeyzawat
From Uyghur پەيزاۋات (peyzawat).
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Peyzawat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Peyzawat
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