Bayannur

English

Alternative forms

• Bayan Nur, Bayan-Nur

Etymology

From Mongolian ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (bayannaɣur), from ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ (bayan) +‎ ᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (naɣur). Compare Mandarin 巴彥淖爾 / 巴彦淖尔 (Bāyànnào'ěr). See also Ordos /nʊːr/, Mongolian нуур (nuur, “lake”).

Proper noun

Bayannur

1. A prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • 1982 January, “Fighting Back the Deserts”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:

     “The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.

   • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today‎^[2], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:

     A 'commodity grain base' of at least regional significance is reported from the irrigated 'inland delta' area of the Bayannur Meng Banner^{[sic – meaning League]}, on the Yellow River west of Baotou, centred on Linhe and Wuyuan (People's Daily, 9 July 1979; Fig. 10.1).

   • 2020 July 6, Austin Ramzy, “Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-06‎^[4]:

     A herdsman in Inner Mongolia was confirmed to be infected with bubonic plague, Chinese health officials said, a reminder of how even as the world battles a pandemic caused by a novel virus, old threats remain.
     The Bayannur city health commission said the plague was diagnosed in the herdsman on Sunday, and he was in stable condition undergoing treatment at a hospital.

   • 2020 July 7, “Bubonic plague case reported in China's Inner Mongolia”, in Stars and Stripes‎^[5], volume 79, number 57, →OCLC, page 13:

     Authorities in the Bayannur district raised the plague warning Sunday, ordered residents not to hunt wild animals such as marmots and to send anyone with fever or showing other possible signs of infection for treatment.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bayannur.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴彥淖爾 / 巴彦淖尔 (zh) (Bāyànnào'ěr)

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