English
Turpan
Turpan comes from Uyghur تۇرپان.
- Uyghurmodernتۇرپانturpan
- Englishearliest quotation 1909Turpan
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Uyghurmodernتۇرپانturpan
- Englishearliest quotation 1909Turpan
Earliest quotation: 1909, John Stuart Thomson, The Chinese: “In a corner of Mongolia near Turkestan, at Turpan,…”
Every English word from Uyghur تۇرپان
Today it means
name A prefecture-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Uyghur تۇرپان / Turpan