Kelpin

English

Map including K'O-P'ING (KELPIN) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1950)

Etymology

From Uyghur كەلپىن (kelpin).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kělpĭnʹ

Proper noun

Kelpin

1. Alternative form of Kalpin
   • 1939, Folke Bergman, Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang‎^[1], Bokforlags Aetiebolaget Thule, →OCLC, page 203:

     As far as I am aware STEIN is the first to have recorded a baba stone in Sinkiang. It is standing in a primitive Kirghiz shrine at Chalkoide in the mountains between Kelpin and Uch-turfan (Stein 1921, Fig. 341). There the stone effigy was worshipped by the Kirghiz.

   • 2014, Eset Sulaiman, Shohret Hoshur, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Uyghur Student Motorcyclist Who Beat Traffic Light Shot Dead”, in Eset Sulaiman, Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[2]:

     High school student Abdulbasit Ablimit, 17, died on the spot after he was shot from behind by policemen on patrol late Saturday in Kelpin county in Aksu prefecture, while the two other Uyghurs who suffered gunshot wounds have been detained, the residents said.

   • 2018, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur Exile Group Leader’s Mother Died in Xinjiang Detention Center”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[3]:

     An official from the Kelpin (Keping) county detention center confirmed to RFA that Memet had died in a detention center, but was unwilling to say which one, as the information was considered “a state secret.”
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     But an official from the Kelpin county bazaar police station also confirmed Memet’s death, saying Isa's mother had passed away while at the “No. 2 detention center,” where she was held “for around a year … due to the influence of religious extremism.”
     RFA was able to determine that there are at least four detention centers in Aksu city and three in Kelpin, and that both areas have “No. 2 detention centers.” It was not immediately clear which one Memet was being held in.

   • 2020, Joshua L. Freeman, “Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile”, in The New York Review of Books‎^[4]:

     I know Nurbeg from my years in Xinjiang’s capital, Ürümqi. He would come through town sometimes for dinner with other writers, intellectuals, and translators, and always had a great deal to say, his speech marked by the distinctive accent of his hometown, Kelpin, in central Xinjiang.

Translations

Kalpin — see Kalpin