T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan

English

TʻA-KʻO-LA-MA-KAN SHA-MO (TAKLA MAKAN DESERT) (USATC, 1971)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 塔克拉瑪干 (Tʻa³-kʻo⁴-la¹-ma³-kan¹).

Proper noun

T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan

1. Alternative form of Takela Magan (Taklamakan).
   • 1965 October 15 [1965 September 17], “Phenomenal Increase of Grain and Cotton Realized in Sinkiang”, in Translations on Communist China's Food and Agriculture‎^[1], number 84, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     In the ring-shaped peripheral areas from the Dzungari Basin to the great desert of T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan, hundreds of thousands of people have been reclaiming wastelands in the depth of the Gobi and desert which cover several thousand square li.

   • 1966 May 31 [1966 March 11], “Managing Water Conservancy Through 500,000,000 Peasants”, in Translations on Communist China's Food and Agriculture‎^[2], number 102, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), page 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

     The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm.

   • 2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes‎^[3], 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

     The great Takla Makan Desert of Central Asia is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. It occupies the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uigur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China, where it is known as Taklimakan Shamo, or T’a-k’o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo.

Translations

Takela Magan — see Takela Magan