Qoghan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur قوغان (qoghan).

Proper noun

Qoghan

1. A township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1934, Rachel Orde Wingate, Dialogues in the Eastern Turki Dialect on Subjects of Interest to Travellers‎^[1], →OCLC, page 13:

     T. Where is he?
     S. He is in the Qoghan quarter, he will be here directly.

   • 2010, Donald Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations‎^[2], via Google Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     The general pattern is that the closer a township is to Kashgar city, the lower the changes of finding a female donkey in a household. Qoghan, Bäshkeräm, Awat, Yengi-östeng and Döwletbagh are townships which are within a 50-km distance from the city, and where female donkeys are nearly absent.

   • 2012 March 22, Mamatjan Juma, Joshua Lipes, “Supporting a Loved One in Jail”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on March 24, 2012:

     Mahat Hasan was one of 50 men detained by Chinese authorities in Barin town’s Qoghan village.[...]Mahat Hassan died last month in prison, becoming the fifth Uyghur of the Qoghan villagers to perish while serving a life sentence, according to his wife Asim Khan.

   • 2015 June 29, Shohret Hoshur, Richard Finney, “Uyghur Attackers Came From 'Religious Family'”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[4], archived from the original on September 19, 2015:

     “This is a really religious family,” Sawut said. “We had been watching them closely, which is why they moved to Qoghan, outside Kashgar city, though some of them remained behind.”

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Haohan

Translations

township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浩罕 (zh) (Hàohǎn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قوغان (qoghan)