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Yawa

/ˈjɑwə/

Yawa proper noun: a township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Yawa

  1. A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • "By this statement he implied he was angry with our justice system, so we had monitored their their actions over the past 10 years, and they had to submit an application if they wanted to leave Yawa township," added Sadir.2016 December 29, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Luisetta Mudie, “Five Dead After 'Terror Attack,' Explosion in China's Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original...

Origin of Yawa

Borrowed from Uyghur ياۋا (yawa).

Questions about Yawa

What does Yawa mean?
Yawa means a township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Yawa?
Yawa is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yawa?
Yawa is pronounced /ˈjɑwə/.

Words near Yawa in the dictionary

  1. yaw-haw
  2. yaw-hawed
  3. yaw-hawing
  4. yaw-haws
  5. yaw-weed
  6. Yawa
  7. Yawata
  8. yawed
  9. Yawelmani
  10. yawey
  11. YAWF

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