Salween

Salween

English

Alternative forms

• Salwen

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese သံလွင် (samlwang).

Proper noun

Salween

1. A 2,815-kilometre-long river flowing from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea, through China, Burma and Thailand.
   • 2013 March 7, Blanchard, Ben, “About 60,000 could lose homes for controversial China dams”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2016‎:

     Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by trade and populist by instinct, vetoed the dams in Yunnan province on the UNESCO-protected Nu River, known outside China as the Salween, in 2005, after an outcry from environmentalists.

Synonyms

• (upper reaches) Nujiang

Translations

river

Burmese: သံလွင်မြစ် (samlwangmrac) Chinese: Mandarin: 薩爾溫江／萨尔温江 (zh) (Sà'ěrwēn Jiāng) (lower reaches outside of China), 怒江 (zh) (Nù Jiāng) (upper reaches in China) Mon: သာန်လာန် Pa'o Karen: ခြုံꩻ Pwo Karen: ကၟံင့်ယှောတ်ခၠေါဟ် Sgaw Karen: ဃိၣ်လီၤကျိ (xoh̀ law̄ kloh) Tai Nüa: ᥑᥨᥒᥰ (xöng) (upper reaches in China) Thai: แม่น้ำสาละวิน Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ (rgyal mo rngul chu)

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