Poskam

English

Alternative forms

• Posgam

Etymology

From Uyghur پوسكام (poskam).

Proper noun

Poskam

1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 1909, Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste, translated by J. G. Anderson, Around Afghanistan‎^[1], London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., →OCLC, →OL, page 106:

     There was once, long, long ago, a very old man who was a saint, and whom everyone revered. He lived in a little shop and made, better than anyone, chereks, which are fine Chinese boots of a special shape of which he has left the secret, and which are only made in Poskam.

   • 2019, Dagikhudo Dagiev, Carole Faucher, editors, Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia (Central Asian Studies Series)‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:

     Poskam (Zepu) County is 30 km to the east of Yarkand and is the petroleum and natural gas producing hub of southern Xinjiang. The Tajik Ethnic village in Poskam County consists of a few smaller settlements scattered around the Boyluq area.

   • 2020, Meng Qi et al., “Genetic diversity of Blastocystis in kindergarten children in southern Xinjiang, China”, in Parasites & Vectors‎^[3], volume 13, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Subtype ST3 was dominant in most of the counties surveyed, with ST1 appearing to be the predominant subtype in the Lop county and only ST1 being identified in the Poskam county (Table 1).

   • 2020 October 2, Asim Kashgarian, “Uighur Couple, Official’s Article Confirm China’s Ban on Islamic Marriage Vow”, in Voice of America‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 October 2020:

     In an article posted in 2018 on the Chinese social media platform WeChat, Behtiyar Ablimit, a committee member of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Poskam county in southern Xinjiang, attested to the government’s proscription of nikah, while contradicting Chinese official statements, which often emphasize that the religious rights of Uighurs are “fully respected” in Xinjiang.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Zepu, Tse-p'u

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 澤普／泽普 (zh) (Zépǔ)

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• Manchu: ᡦᠣᠰᡴᠠᠮ (poskam)
• Uyghur: پوسكام (poskam)

Further reading

• Poskam, Posgam, Zepu, Tse-pu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zepu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3560, column 2: “Also known as Poskam.”

Anagrams

• Pomaks