Kümüx

See also: Kumux

English

Map including Kümüx (DMA, 1990)

Alternative forms

• Kumux

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur كۈمۈش (kümüsh) meaning 'silver', referring to local silver mines.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈmuʃ/

Proper noun

Kümüx

1. A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1996, Zhou Zhiyi, W. T. Dean, Phanerozoic Geology of Northwest China‎^[1], Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:

     From the evidence of the latest Ludlovian to Early Devonian ophiolite, which crops out from the northern slope of Mt. Saarming to Kümüx and areas further east (Wang Zuoxun et al., 1986, 1990; Xiao Xuchang et al., 1990), the South Tianshan back-arc basin had already developed into a finite ocean basin along the Hantengri-Kümüx Fault after the Ludlovian.

   • 1998, Anne Mustoe, Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World‎^[2], Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:

     I wheeled down into Kümüx just after sunset and drank three Jianlibau soft drinks straight off in the first shop I came to.

2. A residential community of Kümüx, Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kumishi, K'u-mi-shih

Translations

town; residential community

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫米什／库米什 (zh) (Kùmǐshí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: كۈمۈش (kümüsh)

Further reading

• Kumux, Kumishi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.