Kümüx

/kuˈmuʃ/

proper noun

A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Kumux

  1. A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.

    1998, Anne Mustoe, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114
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    From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.

    1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11
  2. A residential community in Kümüx, Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Synonyms & antonyms

from Mandarin Chinese

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Origin

  1. Uyghurكۈمۈش
  2. EnglishKümüx

Borrowed from Uyghur كۈمۈش (kümüsh) meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 庫米什 /库米什
  • 庫米什 /库米什 (Kùmǐshí)town; residential community
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