Zawa

See also: zawa

English

Map including Zawa (Cha-wa) (DMA, 1980)

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur زاۋا (zawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɑwə/

Proper noun

Zawa

1. A town in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
   • 1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China: the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides)‎^[1], Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 294:

     Between here and Khotan once stood the Pigeon Shrine at Zawa.

   • 2002 June 23, Michael Browning, “To the Ends of the Earth”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-14‎^[3]:

     Dunes are swallowing up telephone poles on one side of the road and must be thrust back periodically by bulldozers. Near here in 1923 Skrine saw a tiny place named Zawa being slowly devoured by the sands. […]
     Between Luohe and Khargilik pigeons still roost and whirl among the poplars in the oases. Pigeons were far more abundant here a century ago. "If you sprinkle grain on the sand at the 'Kaptar Mazar,' or Pigeon Shrine of Qumrabat Padshahim (literally, My King's Castle in the Sand) in the desert between Goma and Khotan," Skrine wrote, "thousands of pigeons will stream out to meet you, a sort of Milky Way of pigeons, and the sound of their cooing and of their myriad wings is like the sea . . ."

   • 2011, Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps through Clouds‎^[4], Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 153:

     He saw the same pattern in the hamlet of Zawa on the edge of the Khotan oasis and not far from present-day Kaifa Qu. Poor soil, scarce water and a lack of irrigation technology prevented serious colonization. “If they want to increase the Chinese population,” Mannerheim wrote, officials “will have to take away land from the [Uyghurs] and give it to the Chinese.”

   • 2015 May 28, Joshua Lipes, Eset Sulaiman, “Chinese Police Shoot Two Uyghurs Dead in Xinjiang Bomb Attack”, in Eset Sulaiman, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on June 26, 2015:

     Of Zawa’s 50,000-60,000 residents, township authorities had mobilized “most of the farmers and government staff” to take part in the search.

   • 2018 August 14, Zhang Yuan, “Children from NW China Watch Puppet Performance in Beijing”, in All-China Women's Federation‎^[6], archived from the original on February 11, 2021:

     Cheng introduced the achievements made by Anzhen Sub-district Working Committee Office in the last two years, including how the committee had been accelerating friendly cultural exchanges with Zawa Town in Hotan, furthering eco-agriculture collaboration, enhancing public service assistance and the tourism industry, and encouraging talent exchange.

   • 2020 August, Ｗang Lihui, Liu Jian, Tudimaimaiti Maimaitimin, Rexidan Zhakeer, Aibibula Aibai, Wang Chen, Mireguli Shalamu, Nabaer Tuerxunaili, Song Yanfang, Li Suhua, Liu Zhen, “Epidemiological investigation of renal function and abnormal urine test in adults in Zawa Township, Moyu County, Xinjiang”, in Chinese Journal of Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation‎^[7], volume 29, number 4, →DOI, archived from the original on 17 February 2021, page 333:

     The physical examination data of 29 729 adult residents who had completed physical examination in Zawa Township Health Center of Moyu County During January 1,and January 31 2019 were collected and a cross-sectional study was conducted.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Zhawa, Cha-wa

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扎瓦 (Zhāwǎ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: زاۋا (zawa)

Anagrams

• waaz