Gobi
See also: gobi and Góbi
English
Alternative forms
- Cobi
Etymology
From Mongolian Говь (Govʹ) or ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (ɣobi).
Proper noun
Gobi
- A large desert in Asia, spanning the countries of Mongolia and China.
- Twelfth Mo. 21, 1901, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, volume LXXV, number 23, OCLC 1310895570, page 181, column 1:
- In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold.
- 1951, Hoover, Herbert, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, OCLC 901053599, OL 10587103M, page 44:
- These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.
- 1975 August 24, “Picasso, Chinese artists in Taipei show”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 33, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2:
- In 1941, Chang traveled to the remote Gobi Desert in Northwest China and lived in the Tun Huang Caves for two years and seven months.
- 2013, Moly Aloian, The Gobi Desert (Deserts Around the World), Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, LCCN 2012029159, OCLC 792881572, page 4:
- The Gobi Desert is a large desert in Asia. It covers about 500,000 square miles (1,294,994 sq km), stretching from the Tien Shan Mountains in the west and across southeastern Mongolia and northern China.
- 2013, Gore, Al, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 2012039890, OCLC 827202765, page 193:
- The same livestock population explosion is damaging the overgrazed grasslands surrounding China’s Gobi Desert, where the dust storms are also increasing dramatically.
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Translations
desert
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Further reading
- “Gobi”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Gobi Desert, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Gobi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Gobi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- Igbo, big O, biog, biog.
German
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Gobi f (proper noun, genitive Gobi)
- a desert in China and Mongolia; Gobi
Synonyms
- dated: Schamo
Further reading
- “Gobi” in Duden online