Aksu
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See also: ákšu
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Uyghur ئاقسۇ (aqsu, literally “white river”), from Chagatai آقسُو (Āqsū), اکسو (Aksū).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aksu
- A prefecture of Xinjiang, China.
- 1995, Gregor Benton, Alan Hunter, editors, Wild Lily, Prairie Fire[2], Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:
- The representative took the hint, and decided after consulting the masses to approach the Aksu Prefecture Administrative Office. When they arrived for negotiations, the office made an emergency call to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee in Urumqi, which telegraphed back that the problem should be dealt with on the spot.
- 2013, Paul A. Marshall, Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians[3], Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
- Shaya prison is located in remote Aksu Prefecture, about seven hundred miles southwest of the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi.
- A county-level city in Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 1981 April 26, “Youths resist Communist pressure”, in Free China Weekly[6], volume XXII, number 16, Taipei, page 1:
- A report from the China mainland indicated that scores of demonstrating youths were killed last November in Aksu in the western province of Sinkiang, after 70,000 of them rusticated from Shanghai staged a demonstration.
They took over the office building of the "agriculture bureau" and demanded that the Peiping regime allow them to return to Shanghai. Communist "vice premier" Wang Chen was forced to hurry to Aksu from Peiping and instructed troops to suppress the youths by any means, even if it meant bloodshed.
- 1989, Colin Thubron, The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom[7], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15:
- From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north.
- Aksu River (Xinjiang).
- Any of various places in Kazakhstan.
- Any of various places in Turkey.
- A surname from Turkish.
Synonyms
[edit]- (location in Xinjiang, China, from Mandarin Chinese) Akesu, A-k'o-su
- (location in Xinjiang, China) Aqsu
Translations
[edit]Aksu, Xinjiang
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Aksu or Aqsu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 29, column 1
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Aksu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52, column 2
Anagrams
[edit]Turkish
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Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish آقصو (Aksu), equivalent to ak (“white”) + su (“water”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Aksu
Declension
[edit] declension of Aksu
singular | plural | |
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nominative | Aksu | Aksular / Aksu'lar |
accusative | Aksu'yu | Aksuları / Aksu'ları |
dative | Aksu'ya | Aksulara / Aksu'lara |
locative | Aksu'da | Aksularda / Aksu'larda |
ablative | Aksu'dan | Aksulardan / Aksu'lardan |
genitive | Aksu'nun | Aksuların / Aksu'ların |
possessive of Aksu
singular | plural | |
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benim (my) | Aksu'm | Aksularım / Aksu'larım |
senin (your) | Aksu'n | Aksuların / Aksu'ların |
onun (his/her/its) | Aksu'su | Aksuları / Aksu'ları |
bizim (our) | Aksu'muz | Aksularımız / Aksu'larımız |
sizin (your) | Aksu'nuz | Aksularınız / Aksu'larınız |
onların (their) | Aksu'su / Aksuları / Aksu'ları | Aksuları / Aksu'ları |
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Uyghur
- English terms derived from Uyghur
- English terms derived from Chagatai
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Prefectures of China
- en:Places in Xinjiang
- en:Places in China
- English terms with quotations
- en:Cities in Xinjiang
- English surnames
- English surnames from Turkish
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish compound terms
- Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish proper nouns
- tr:Districts of Turkey
- tr:Places in Turkey
- tr:Towns in Turkey
- Turkish surnames