Aqsaray
English
Alternative forms
- Aksarāy
Proper noun
Aqsaray
- Alternative spelling of Aksaray (city in Turkey)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Uyghur ئاقساراي (aqsaray).
Proper noun
Aqsaray
- A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 2007, Ildikó Bellér-Hann, editor, Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia, Ashgate, →ISBN, OCLC 276989221, page 90:
- The first example is by a poet called Ablimit Sämät, who composed these verses about his native village Aqsaray near Khotän in south-west Xinjiang, one of the least developed parts of the Autonomous Region.
- 2017 October 9, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Nearly Half of Uyghurs in Xinjiang’s Hotan Targeted For Re-Education Camps”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on February 2, 2018:
- When asked about whether a target percentage of re-education arrests had been ordered by authorities, an official from No. 1 Village, in Qaraqash’s Aqsaray township, confirmed the directive, but referred RFA to the local Communist Party secretary—who had recently been admitted to the hospital and was unreachable—for the exact number.
- 2021, Dillon, Michael, China in the Age of Xi Jinping, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, OCLC 1277282877:
- The Communist Party secretary of the village of Aqsaray in the Qaraqash region near Hotan was ordered to target 40% of the population of the village as potential unreliable elements in need of re-education.
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Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Akesalayi, A-k'o-sa-la-i
Translations
township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China
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