Altay

Altay

English

Altay (Belukha mountain)

Map including Altay (DMA, 1989)

Alternative forms

• Altai

Etymology

From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ǎlʹtīʹ

Proper noun

Altay

1. Alternative form of Altai
   • 1982, The Desert Realm‎, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, LCCN 80-7568, OCLC 8281437, OL 8343363M, page 221:

     The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner.

2. A prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
   • 1989, Ma Yin (马寅), editor, China's Minority Nationalities (中国少数民族)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 924796533, page 161:

     The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946.

   • 2014, Li Xinping (李欣凭), Modern Xinjiang (活力新疆)‎, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, OCLC 913453080, page 201:

     In January 2010, a blizzard of such force which had not occurred in six decades attacked the Altay Prefecture, and the minimum temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

   • 2015 August 27, Liu Xinlian, “The Joy of Work”, in Beijing Review‎, volume 58, number 35, ISSN 1000-9140, OCLC 264070611, page 32:

     When Saliye Hobay, a Kazak ethnic woman born in Altay Prefecture in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was laid off in 2002 after the clothing factory in which she had worked for six years went bankrupt, she fell into momentary depression.

   • 2022 February 9, “Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 09 February 2022:

     Torchbearer Dinigeer Yilamujiang hails from the mountainous terrain of Xinjiang's Altay prefecture.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Altay.
3. A county-level city in Altay prefecture, in far northern Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) A'ertai, A-erh-t'ai

Translations

Altay, Xinjiang, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 阿勒泰 (zh) (Ālēitài) Russian: Алта́й (ru) m (Altáj) Uyghur: ئالتاي‎ (altay)

See also

• Altai Republic, Altay Republic
• Altai Krai, Altay Kray

Anagrams

• Tayla, Yalta

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Turkish

Proper noun

Altay

1. a male given name