Luntai

See also: lúntāi

English

Alternative forms

• Lun-t'ai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin 輪臺／輪台／轮台 (Lúntái).

Proper noun

Luntai

1. A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1925 March, J. H. Reynolds, “Place-names in Sinkiang”, in The Geographical Journal‎^[1], volume LXV, number 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, page 242:

     In many cases, the Postal Guide gives the Chinese name alone. This applies to most small places, and it is not always easy to identify Chinese post offices with Turki villages ; e.g. are Luntai (east of Kucha) and Shanshan (east of Turfan), as shown in the somewhat diagrammatic Postal Atlas of China, identical with the Bugur and Pichan of the Survey of India maps?

   • 2014 October 12, Michael Martina, “Policewoman killed in China's Xinjiang - state media”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 May 2022, World News:

     In September, state media said police shot dead 40 rioters, some of whom were seeking to blow themselves up, after explosions went off in Luntai county.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luntai.

Translations

a county in Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 輪臺／轮台 (leon⁴ toi⁴), 輪台 (leon⁴ toi⁴)

  Mandarin: 輪臺／轮台 (zh) (Lúntái), 輪台 (zh) (Lúntái)

• Uyghur: بۈگۈر (bügür)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luntai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1805, column 3: “The name sometimes appears as Bügür.”

Anagrams

• Tuinal, inlaut, unital