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Revision as of 08:54, 20 August 2023
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Uyghur چىرا (chira).
Proper noun
Qira
- A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 1989, 车慕奇 [Che Muqi], “Visit to an Ancient City Buried in the Desert”, in 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present][1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, Newly Discovered Relics in the Desert, page 293:
- Passing through Qira County on our way, we were asked to stay by Wang Yijun, Director of the Office of the County Party Committee. He said he was an amateur archaeologist and an old acquaintance of Li Yuchun’s. In 1978 the two men had gone together to the desert in northern Qira County to survey a buried ancient city.
- 2001, Wenjiang Liu, Mingting Liu, “Reversing Desertification with Tamarix in China”, in Dov Pasternak, Arnold Schlissel, editors, Combating Desertification with Plants[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 310:
- Tamarix forests not only effectively control local sand movement, wind erosion and disasters caused by wind-blown sand, but can also stop sand grains brought by the wind. For example, on the 3333.3 hectacres of planted Tamarix forest at the outer Qira Oasis with 60-70% coverage, the annual sand-blocking amount can reach 700,000 m³. When the wind passes through a Tamarix forest, besides blocking sand, the twigs and leaves of the trees also obstruct the passage of the dust in the air, improving the health situation of humans and livestock. For example, when the wind velocity is 15 m/s, the dust content at 2m height is 1/18 of the content measured at the same height in the outer oasis (observed at Qira County in 1987).
- 2013 May 27, Cui Jia, Mao Weihua, “Holding back the sands of time”, in China Daily[3], archived from the original on July 26, 2013[4]:
- "Growing things in the desert is not easy, and it's extremely expensive," said Qi Zhendong, director of the Qira county office of desertification prevention and control.
- 2019 September 11, “Local villagers shake off poverty through plantation, livestock breeding in Xinjiang”, in Lu Hui, editor, Xinhua News Agency[5], archived from the original on December 14, 2019:
- A farmer checks the condition of dates in Qira County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 1, 2019.
- A town in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 2013 May 27, Cui Jia, Mao Weihua, “Holding back the sands of time”, in China Daily[6], archived from the original on July 26, 2013[7]:
- Memet Simay's household was one of 446 in Qira township forced to relocate in the 1980s, although the family has since returned to the area.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Cele, Tselo, Ts'e-lo, Ts'e-le
Translations
county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China
Further reading
- Qira at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qira”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3
Anagrams
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Uyghur
- English terms derived from Uyghur
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English words containing Q not followed by U
- en:Counties of China
- en:Places in Xinjiang
- en:Places in China
- English terms with quotations
- en:Towns in Xinjiang
- en:Towns in China
- en:Townships