Word.ws English Dictionary

Artush

US/ɑɹˈtuʃ/

Artush proper noun: synonym of Artux.

artush: synonym of Artux
Image: Army Map Service, US Federal Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Artush

  1. Synonym of Artux.
    • The name Saifudin is a Chinese corruption of Saif-al-din Azia (or Seyfudin Azizov, the Russian variant), and it is transliterated into Chinese as Sai Fu-ting. The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest...1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 743, column 1
    • A state-owned steel company from Jiangxi pledged to invest 7.5 billion yuan in the proposed Ganxin Iron and Steel plant in Artush, outside of Kashgar, with a projected annual production capacity of one million tons.2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 378–379
    Synonyms:
    Artux

Examples of Artush in a sentence

  • The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border.1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN...
  • I took the bus to Artush, which was about sixty miles to the north, and got off at a pass in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, “A Feather Fell Down From One Angel”, in Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with...
  • The dome of a Uighur mosque in Artush, Xinjiang, was removed in 2018.2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04...

Synonyms of Artush

Questions about Artush

What does Artush mean?
Artush means synonym of Artux.
How do you use Artush in a sentence?
The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border.
What part of speech is Artush?
Artush is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Artush?
Artush is pronounced /ɑɹˈtuʃ/ (US).

Words near Artush in the dictionary

  1. Artuqids
  2. Artur
  3. arture
  4. artures
  5. artusenate
  6. Artush
  7. Artux
  8. Artuz
  9. Artvin
  10. artware
  11. artwares

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Artush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Artush.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/artush. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.