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Aketao

Syllables: A·ke·tao

Aketao proper noun: synonym of Akto: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

aketao: synonym of Akto: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
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Proper noun

Aketao

  1. Synonym of Akto: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • The Xinjiang Legal News said Awazi was arrested in June in Aketao County.
    • According to the newspaper, Awazi had appointed himself imam, or senior Moslem cleric, in 1992 at a mosque in Aketao, where he organised 120 Moslem activists who criticised Communist Party policies and denounced party officials as “pagans.”1996 July 18 [1996 July 10], Andre Grabot, “PRC: Uygur Rebels Claim More Attacks on Forces in Xinjiang”, in Daily Report: China, number 96-139, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    Synonyms:
    Akto

Synonyms of Aketao

Origin of Aketao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 阿克陶 (Ākètáo).

Questions about Aketao

What does Aketao mean?
Aketao means synonym of Akto: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
What part of speech is Aketao?
Aketao is a proper noun.

Words near Aketao in the dictionary

  1. Akermans
  2. akers
  3. Akershus
  4. akes
  5. Akesu
  6. Aketao
  7. akether
  8. aketon
  9. aketons
  10. Akeu
  11. Akey

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