Darya Boyi

English

Alternative forms

• Deryaboyi

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur دەريا بويى (derya boyi, literally “big river”).

Proper noun

Darya Boyi

1. A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2009 December, Matthew Teague, “The Other Tibet”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47:

     DAYBREAK in the village of Darya Boyi finds a daughter doing chores (left).

   • 2010, Yalikun Tashi, Philippe C. Chamard, Marie-Françoise Courel, Tashpolat Tiyip, Yiliminuer Tuerxun, Sam Drake, The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China‎^[2], Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC; republished as Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions‎^[3], 2009, page 71:

     The Keriya River, which stretched in the 1950s to the dunes of the Taklimakan Desert, about 240 km north of Keriya Town, today barely reaches the village of Darya Boyi, 120 km away from Keriya Town.

   • 2021 February 27, Dennis Etler, “What the U.S. can learn from China”, in CGTN‎^[4], archived from the original on 27 February 2021‎^[5]:

     A resettlement housing area for villagers from Darya Boyi Town in Yutian County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, November 19, 2019.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Daliya Buyi
• Tongguzbasti

Translations

township in Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達里雅布依／达里雅布依 (Dálǐyǎ Bùyī)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: دەريا بويى (derya boyi)