Tongguzbasti
Tongguzbasti proper noun: synonym of Darya Boyi.
Proper noun
Tongguzbasti
- Synonym of Darya Boyi.
- In order to find clues as to how they lived it might be reasonable to visit the most primitive and isolated oasis community in the Tarim Basin. Arguably this is the village of Tongguzbasti which lies in the delta of the Keriya River, in the middle of the Taklamakan desert[...]1996, Philip Andrews-Speed, “Herdsmen of Chinese Turkestan”, in Asian Affairs, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC
- Added to the party later were the Chinese guide who had crossed the desert in Blackmore's expedition, and two Chinese cooks. At Tongguzbasti ("the boar trampled"), a remote settlement where the Keriya River trickles away into the sand, we recruited 24 camels, five Uighur camel drivers and the...1996 May 18, Christian Tyler, “Life stripped to its essentials in the desert”, in Financial Times, page XII, columns 6–7
- Synonyms:
- Darya Boyi
Examples of Tongguzbasti in a sentence
- At Tongguzbasti ("the boar trampled"), a remote settlement where the Keriya River trickles away into the sand, we recruited 24 camels, five Uighur camel drivers and the headman's eight-year-old son.1996 May 18, Christian Tyler, “Life stripped to its essentials in the desert”, in Financial Times, page XII, columns 6–7:
- This man was a goatherd from Tongguzbasti.2000, Daniel Easterman, chapter 53, in Incarnation (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 411:
- The fifty villagers of Tongguzbasti ("The invading boar") live in a thicket behind a stockade which protects them from the wind and sand.2004, Christian Tyler, “Separate Tables”, in Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang (History/Asia), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University...
- A week into the trip Korbel told me I was riding well, no trouble at all for him, so we would detour a little to the east, toward an oasis called Tongguzbasti.2004, Barry Holstun Lopez, Resistance (Fiction), New York: Vintage Books, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:
Synonyms of Tongguzbasti
Origin of Tongguzbasti
Borrowed from Uyghur توڭگۇزباستى (tongguzbasti, literally “boar trampled; boar invaded”).
Questions about Tongguzbasti
- What does Tongguzbasti mean?
- Tongguzbasti means synonym of Darya Boyi.
- How do you use Tongguzbasti in a sentence?
- At Tongguzbasti ("the boar trampled"), a remote settlement where the Keriya River trickles away into the sand, we recruited 24 camels, five Uighur camel drivers and the headman's eight-year-old son.
- What part of speech is Tongguzbasti?
- Tongguzbasti is a proper noun.
Words near Tongguzbasti in the dictionary
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