Kash

See also: Kash.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

Re-spelling of Cash.

Proper noun

Kash

1. A male given name of modern usage.
2. A surname.

Etymology 2

Map of part of Xinjiang, showing the Kash's confluence with the Ili

From Russian Каш (Kaš) and Chinese 喀什 (Kāshí), from Mongolian Хаш (Xaš), from Mongolian хаш (xaš, “jade”).
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Proper noun

Kash

1. A river in Xinjiang, China, a tributary of the Ili.
   • 1903, Aurel Stein, “Over the Kara-kash Ranges”, in Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan‎^[1], published 2005, →OCLC, page 225:

     OUR previous survey, including the expedition up the Yurungkash gorge, had cleared up the important question as to the true origin and course of the main feeder of the Khotan River. The next and equally interesting task was to map the headwaters of the streams which drain the portion of the Kuen-lnen range south and south-west of Karanghu-tagh, and are manifestly the principal tributaries. In the course of my inquiries from the Qusha herdsmen about dominant pots that would enable me to sight again the series of maguificent glaciers which feed the Kash River, I lad ascertained that there was a difficult path just practicable for laden yaks crossing the transverse range north-west to Karanghu-tagh. It was said to lead to the Nissa Valley, whence a track could be found to the mountains on the upper Kara-kash River.

   • 2004, V.M. Starodubtsev, O.L. Fedorenko, M.Zh. Burlibaev, “Assessment of the Influence of River Runoff Regulation on Ecological Situation”, in Christopher M. Teaf, Bulat K. Yessekin, Mikhail K. Khankhasayev, editors, Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision-Making in Central Asia (NATO Science Series)‎^[2], volume 34, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 282:

     In the Chinese part of the river basin, three hydroelectric power plants have been constructed (i.e., one on the Kash River, and two on the Kenes River).

References

• Boskha Kh. Borlykova & al., "Towards the Study of Oirat Hydronyms of the Ili River", Вопросы Ономастики, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 111.

Anagrams

• Khas, Shak, akhs, hask