Langru

English

Map including Langru (Lang-ju) (DMA, 1980)

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur لاڭرۇ (langru).

Proper noun

Langru

1. A township in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1910, Frank Nicholas Meyer, “ITINERARY REPORT”, in Letters of Frank N. Meyer‎^[1], volume II, →OCLC, page 1150:

     November […]
     23 Visit to a market held near Khotan. Grains bought. […]
     28 Left at 9 A.M. All day enroute. Collected tree cuttings. Bought seeds. Stayed for the night in Langru.

   • 2003, Revue de Paléobiologie‎^[2], volume 22, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 482:

     Additional outcrops were investigated south and west of Hotan. They were unproductive, except in Langru (other spelling Ranru) area where two fossiliferous localities were discovered .

   • 2011 December 2, Dongya Zhang, “Natural beauties of southern Xinjiang”, in Beijing Today‎^[3], number 547, →OCLC, Travel China, page 20:

     Located in Langru Town of Hotan County, Uluwarty Scenic Spot is a large reservoir that was completed in 2001. The water in the reservoir is as deep as 110 meters, with a dam 131 meters high.

   • 2014 December 17, Richard Finney, Jelil Kashgari, Erkin Tarim, “Uyghurs Face Seizure of Land, Personal Property Under Tough New Rules”, in Eset Sulaiman, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[4], archived from the original on December 30, 2014:

     In Langru Township in Hotan county, any Uyghur on the police suspect list who fails to present himself or herself to authorities will have their name “erased from township household registers,” according to one police document recently obtained by RFA.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Langru.

Synonyms

• Lang-ju
• Lan-ka-lu

Translations

township in Hotan County, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朗如 (Lǎngrú)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: لاڭرۇ (langru)

Anagrams

• Lurgan, langur