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Awat

Awat proper noun: a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

awat: a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China
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Proper noun

Awat

  1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Shajimuhan Momin, the director of the Yengierik township planning office in Awat county was visiting the family of Reyimjan Sadir to 'propagandise and educate his wife about family planning measures'.2004, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121
    • The field experiment was carried out in Awat county, located in west edge of Taklimakan desert, XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.2008, Jurat Matruzi, Mamtimin Geni, Ilham Abdureyim, Xamxinur Abdikerem, “Relationship Between Sand Ripple Moving Speed and Wind Speed under Local Wind Tunnel Experiment by Using Natural Sand in...
  2. A township in Maralbexi, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  3. A town in Yarkant, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  4. A township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • The general pattern is that the closer a township is to Kashgar city, the lower the changes of finding a female donkey in a household. Qoghan, Bäshkeräm, Awat, Yengi-östeng and Döwletbagh are townships which are within a 50-km distance from the city, and where female donkeys are nearly absent.2010, Donald Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations, via Google Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172

Synonyms of Awat

Origin of Awat

From Uyghur ئاۋات (awat), from Classical Persian آبَاد (ābād).

Questions about Awat

What does Awat mean?
Awat means a county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Awat?
Awat is a proper noun.

Words near Awat in the dictionary

  1. awarras
  2. awaruite
  3. awash
  4. awaste
  5. Awaswas
  6. Awat
  7. Awat'ovi
  8. awatar
  9. awatars
  10. awatch
  11. Awatobi

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