Tarim

See also: tarım

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• enPR: tärēmʹ, därēmʹ

Proper noun

Tarim

1. A river in Xinjiang, China.
   • 2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 07, 2024‎^[2]:

     Similarly, Lop Nur Lake, in southeastern Xinjiang, which once supported a thriving indigenous culture, dried up for good in the early 1970s. Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.

   • 2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-21, Business‎^[4]:

     The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.

   • 2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu‎^[5], archived from the original on 07 November 2020‎^[6]:

     For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.

Derived terms

• Tarim Basin
• Tarim Pendi

 

Translations

river

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔里木河 (zh) (Tǎlǐmù Hé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 타림강 (Tarim-gang)
• Manchu: ᡨᠠᡵᡳᠮ
  ᡡᠰᡨᡝᠩ (tarim ūsteng)

Further reading

• “Tarim, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tarim”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Armit, Mitra, amrit, matri-, mitra, timar, tirma