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Semirechye

Semirechye proper noun: an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire corresponding to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.

Proper noun

Semirechye

  1. (historical) An oblast (province) of the Russian Empire corresponding to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.
    • During his long and successful career as ataman of the Don Cossacks, then as governor-general of Turkestan and ataman of the Semirechye Cossacks, Cavalry General Samsonov had learned to carry out his duties in an unhurried and deliberate fashion[…].1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 69

Origin of Semirechye

Borrowed from Russian Семиречье (Semirečʹje), itself composed of семь (semʹ, “seven”), река (reka, “river”), -ье (-ʹje, “-ia”), a calque of Kazakh Jetısu (“Seven Rivers”).

Questions about Semirechye

What does Semirechye mean?
Semirechye means an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire corresponding to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.
What part of speech is Semirechye?
Semirechye is a proper noun.

Words near Semirechye in the dictionary

  1. semirealistically
  2. semireality
  3. semireasonable
  4. semirecent
  5. semirecessive
  6. Semirechye
  7. semireclined
  8. semirecondite
  9. semirecumbant
  10. semirecumbent
  11. semired

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