T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan

English

TʻA-KʻO-LA-MA-KAN SHA-MO (TAKLA MAKAN DESERT) (USATC, 1971)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 塔克拉瑪干／塔克拉玛干 (Tʻa³-kʻo⁴-la¹-ma³-kan¹).

Proper noun

T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan

1. Alternative form of Takela Magan (Taklamakan)
   • 1965, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[1], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 4:

     In the ring-shaped peripheral areas from the Dzungari Basin to the great desert of T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan, hundreds of thousands of people have been reclaiming wastelands in the depth of the Gobi and desert which cover several thousand square li.

   • 1966, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[2], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 97:

     The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm.

   • 2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes‎^[3], 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

     The great Takla Makan Desert of Central Asia is one of the largest sandy deserts in the world. It occupies the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uigur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China, where it is known as Taklimakan Shamo, or T’a-k’o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo.

Translations

Takela Magan — see Takela Magan