Lan-chou
See also: lanchou
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 蘭州 / 兰州 (Lánzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-chou¹.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: länʹjōʹ
Proper noun
[edit]Lan-chou
- Alternative form of Lanzhou
- 1891 December 3, “The Land of the Lamas”, in Nature[2], volume 45, number 1153, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
- He determined to enter Tibet from the north, and started from Peking on December 17. The choice of this route made it necessary for him to make in the first instance for Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kan-su ; so he arranged with a cart firm to supply him with two carts, with two mules each, to take him there in thirty-four days.[...]
From Lan-chou, Mr. Rockhill advanced to Hsi-ning, the residence of the Chinese Imperial Controller-general of the Koko-nor, an official known to the Tibetans and Mongols as the Amban.
- 1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy[3], volume 1, Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 88:
- Soon after leaving the village we crossed some rising ground, meeting on the summit a caravan of forty mules laden with drugs from Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kansu. These drugs are sent down by cart to the department city of Ch'in Chou, eight stages from the capital, and there transferred to and thence brought down by pack animals.
- 2005, Mathew Lyons, Impossible Journeys (Cadogan Guides)[4], Globe Pequot Press, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103:
- There is nothing implausible about this, but there will certainly have been cities along the way, most obviously Lan-chou on the Huang-ho River at the southern end of the Kansu corridor, which, assuming that Pegolotti came that way, he would have found impossible to miss.
Translations
[edit]Lanzhou — see Lanzhou
References
[edit]- ^ Lanzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Lan-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 481: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Lan-chou (Lanzhou) 蘭州”
Further reading
[edit]- “Lan-chou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Lan-chou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Lan-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Lan-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.