Yengimehelle

English

Alternative forms

• Yengi Mehelle

Etymology

From Uyghur يېڭىمەھەللە (yë'ngimehelle).

Proper noun

Yengimehelle

1. A town in Xayar, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
   • 2015 April 16, Shohret Hoshur, Roseanne Gerin, “Police Conduct Raids in Xinjiang a Year After Flag Burning at Mosque”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on October 24, 2015:

     The group was set up at the end of January to assist police in their investigation into the flag-burning incident that occurred at Xaniqa mosque in the county’s Yengimehelle township.

2. A township in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • [2009 August 20, “Xinjiang Authorities Train, Seek to Regulate Muslim Women Religious Figures”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China‎^[2], archived from the original on September 19, 2014:

     According to an April 24 report on the Peyziwat (Jiashi) county (Kashgar district) government Web site, government and Communist Party officials in Yéngi Mehelle (Yingmaili) township gathered the büwi of 10 local villages for training in government and Party policy toward religion and to sign a pledge to "uphold stability." Based on the pledge, the women will refrain from "wearing veils or long dresses, teaching religious texts to students, and forcing other individuals to participate in religious activities."]

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Yingmaili

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英買里 (Yīngmǎilǐ)

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• Uyghur: يېڭىمەھەللە (yë'ngimehelle)