Nalaikh

English

Etymology

From Mongolian Налайх (Nalajx).

Proper noun

Nalaikh

1. A district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
   • 2018 March 15, Bryan Denton, “Burning Coal for Survival in the World’s Coldest Capital”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 15, 2018, World‎^[2]:

     The family had lived year-round in a planned part of the city with municipal heating until last year, when both children suffered severe cases of pneumonia and were hospitalized. This winter, the family decamped to Nalaikh, 24 miles outside the city, where the air is cleaner despite the area’s being the primary source of Ulan Bator’s coal.

Translations

a district of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納來哈 / 纳来哈 (zh)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Налайх (Nalajx)

  Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠯᠠᠶᠢᠬᠤ (nalayiqu)

• Russian: Нала́йх m (Nalájx)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nalayh”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2110, column 2: “Also spelled Nalaikha or Nalaykha.”

Anagrams

• Lakhani