Kümüx

Kümüx

See also: Kumux

English

Map including Kümüx (DMA, 1990)

Alternative forms

• Kumux

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur كۈمۈش‎ (kümüsh) meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kymyʃ/

Proper noun

Kümüx

1. A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China‎, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, OCLC 906743413, page 11:

     From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.

   • 1998, Anne Mustoe, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World‎, Random House, →ISBN, OCLC 42835551, page 114:

     I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.

2. A residentialcommunity in Kümüx, Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kumishi, K'u-mi-shih

Translations

town; residential community

Chinese: Mandarin: 庫米什 (zh), 库米什 (zh) (Kùmǐshí) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: كۈمۈش‎ (kümüsh)