Yarkand

English

Map including SO-CH'E (YARKAND) (USATC, 1971)

Pronunciation

• enPR: yärkändʹ

Proper noun

Yarkand

1. Alternative form of Yarkant.
   • 1800, John Pinkerton, Petralogy‎^[2], volume I, White, Cochrane, and Co., page 280:

     Goez, who travelled to Tibet in 1602, in describing Yarkand, the capital of the kingdom of Kasgar, in Little Bucharia, mentions, that a commodity, particularly acceptable in China, was a kind of marble or jasper, found in Kasgar*.

   • 1923, John Buchan, “On the Roof of the World”, in A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys‎^[3], Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 297:

     Where was the band heading? Not for India—probably for Yarkand; possibly for some place still farther east. It was therefore necessary for Captain Blacker to turn south-east up the Raskam River, and plunge into the wild tangle of the Karakoram mountains.

   • [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[4], volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 491:

     Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik. Posgām is the modern Tse-p‘u.]

   • 2009, Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present‎^[5], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 240:

     The Manchu-Chinese replaced the Junghar imperial coinage of East Turkistan with Manchu-Chinese coins they began minting at Yarkand in 1759.

2. A river in China, upon which the city of Yarkant is located. The upper part of this river is known as Raskam.

Synonyms

• Neinejoung (the river)

Translations

Yarkant — see Yarkant

the river

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 葉爾羌河 / 叶尔羌河 (jip⁶ ji⁵ goeng¹ ho⁴)

  Mandarin: 葉爾羌河 / 叶尔羌河 (zh) (Yè'ěrqiāng Hé)

• Manchu: ᠶᡝᡵᡴᡳᠶᠠᠩ
  ᡡᠰᡨᡝᠩ (yerkiyang ūsteng)
• Russian: Яркенд m (Jarkend)