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Xaidulla

Xaidulla proper noun: a town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

xaidulla: a town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China
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Proper noun

Xaidulla

  1. A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Thus, embittered and with his career in crisis, Johnson had spent the last season, 1864, rounding off his work in the north-eastern corner of Ladakh. In the process he had again beaten his own world altitude record by reaching a point 23,000 feet above sea level. He had also crossed the Karakoram...[1977, John Keay, Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-1895, published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 202
    • The next day we came to Xaidulla, a cluster of walled compounds, old buildings made of mud brick, new ones of concrete, a few bushes, but mostly a road stop filled with blue trucks driven by Uighurs from Kashgar and Urumqi.1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage, Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119
    Synonyms:
    Saitula, Sai-t'u-la

Examples of Xaidulla in a sentence

  • At Xaidulla there is only a Daoban (Road Maintenance Depot).2000, Atsushi Kanamaru, editor, Mapping the Tibetan World, 1st edition, Kotan Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
  • The road turns east and climbs over the Kirgizjangal Pass (kilometre marker 09; 4930m) to the large village of Xaidulla (Sài Túlā; kilometre marker 363; 3700m), the largest town en route.2011, Bradley Mayhew, Michael Kohn, Daniel McCrohan, Tibet, 8th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 355:

Synonyms of Xaidulla

Forms of Xaidulla

alternative formShahidulla

Origin of Xaidulla

Borrowed from Uyghur شەيدۇللا (sheydulla), ultimately from Arabic شَهِيدُ اللّٰه (šahīdu allāh, literally “witness of God”).

Questions about Xaidulla

What does Xaidulla mean?
Xaidulla means a town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Xaidulla in a sentence?
At Xaidulla there is only a Daoban (Road Maintenance Depot).
What part of speech is Xaidulla?
Xaidulla is a proper noun.

Words near Xaidulla in the dictionary

  1. XACML
  2. xacuti
  3. xacutti
  4. Xaenorphica
  5. XAI
  6. Xaidulla
  7. Xaisomboun
  8. Xakas
  9. xalam
  10. xalams
  11. Xalapa

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