Tarim
See also: tarım
English
editEtymology
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Pronunciation
edit- enPR: tärēmʹ, därēmʹ
Proper noun
editTarim
- A river in Xinjiang, China.
- 2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-21, Business[2]:
- The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.
- 2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu[3], archived from the original on 07 November 2020[4]:
- For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editriver
Further reading
edit- “Tarim, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Tarim”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.