Karakoram
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from a Turkic language, literally meaning "black gravel". See Ottoman Turkish قره (qara, “black”) and possibly قوروم (kurum, “soot”) (kurum) and compare Urdu قراقرم (qarāquram) / قرہ قرم (qara quram).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Karakoram
- A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.
- 1912, Curtis's Botanical Magazine[1], volume 8, page 8441:
- The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level.
- 1912, Filippo De Filippi, “Introduction”, in Karakoram and Western Himalaya, 1909[2], New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:
- To reach the Karakoram the expedition had to cross the vast mountainous region which lies between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, taking a different route each way.
- 2020 July 7, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, EMILY SCHMALL, SAM MCNEIL, “Indian, Chinese soldiers move away from site of deadly clash”, in AP News[3], archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
- The two sides also appeared to have dismantled recent construction along the river valley high in the Karakoram mountains, satellite images showed.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Karakoram.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
mountain range
Further reading edit
- Karakoram, Karakorum at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Karakoram”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Karakoram”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1504, column 3