Altay
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: ǎlʹtīʹ
Proper noun edit
Altay
- Alternative form of Altai
- A prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
- 1989, 马寅 [Ma Yin], editor, 中国少数民族 [China's Minority Nationalities][2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:
- The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946.
- 2015 August 27, Liu Xinlian, “The Joy of Work”, in Beijing Review[4], volume 58, number 35, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
- When Saliye Hobay, a Kazak ethnic woman born in Altay Prefecture in the north of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was laid off in 2002 after the clothing factory in which she had worked for six years went bankrupt, she fell into momentary depression.
- 2022 February 5, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in The Washington Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-05, Olympics[6]:
- Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists.
- 2022 February 9, “Beijing sells troubled Xinjiang as a winter sports paradise”, in France 24[7], archived from the original on 09 February 2022:
- Torchbearer Dinigeer Yilamujiang hails from the mountainous terrain of Xinjiang's Altay prefecture.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Altay.
- A county-level city in Altay prefecture, in far northern Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms edit
- (from Mandarin Chinese) A'ertai, A-erh-t'ai
Translations edit
Altay, Xinjiang, China
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Altay”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100, column 2
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | Алтај | |
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Abjad | آلتای |
Proper noun edit
Altay
- the Altay (mountain range)
- a male given name
Declension edit
Declension of Altay | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | Altay |
Altaylar | ||||||
definite accusative | Altayı |
Altayları | ||||||
dative | Altaya |
Altaylara | ||||||
locative | Altayda |
Altaylarda | ||||||
ablative | Altaydan |
Altaylardan | ||||||
definite genitive | Altayın |
Altayların |
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلتای (Altay).
Proper noun edit
Altay
- the Altay (mountain range)
- a male given name