Lo-p'u

English

Map of the region including Lop (Lo-p'u) (DMA, 1983)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 洛浦 (Lo⁴-pʻu³).

Proper noun

Lo-p'u

1. Alternative form of Luopu (Lop)
   • 1970 [1964], Reinhard G. Hubel, “The carpets of East Turkestan”, in Katherine Watson, transl., The Book of Carpets‎^[1], West Germany: Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 270:

     Chinese sources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries refer to carpet production in east Turkestan with centres at Khotan, Yü Tien, Lo-p'u and Pi-shan, with an annual capacity of about 5,000 carpets for export to Andiyan/Kokand (about eighty per cent), British India and Afghanistan (H. Bidder: Teppiche aus Ost-Turkestan). The oases on the southern border of the Tarim basin - less subject to unrest through political events and migrations - were able to lead a relatively undisturbed and independent life and formed a focus round which the development of art and craft could crystallise.

   • 1974, Khotan (Encyclopædia Britannica)‎^[2], volume V, →ISBN, page 793:

     The oasis of Khotan, the largest of these, includes Mo-yü (Kara Kash), to the northwest, and Lo-p'u, to the east.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lo-p'u.

Anagrams

• Loup, Lupo, loup