Awat

See also: awat

English

Map including Awat (DMA, 1981)

Etymology

From Uyghur ئاۋات (awat).

Proper noun

Awat

1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2004, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang: China's Muslim Far Northwest‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:

     Shajimuhan Momin, the director of the Yengierik township planning office in Awat county was visiting the family of Reyimjan Sadir to 'propagandise and educate his wife about family planning measures'.

   • 2008, Jurat Matruzi, Mamtimin Geni, Ilham Abdureyim, Xamxinur Abdikerem, “Relationship Between Sand Ripple Moving Speed and Wind Speed under Local Wind Tunnel Experiment by Using Natural Sand in Taklimakan Desert”, in Wei Yang, Mamtimin Geni, Tiejun Wang, Zhuo Zhuang, editors, Advances in Fracture and Materials Behavior: Selected, peer reviewed papers of the Seventh International Conference on Fracture and Strength of Solids, (FEOFS2007), Urumqi, China, August 27-29, 2007‎^[2], volume 2, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1051:

     The field experiment was carried out in Awat county, located in west edge of Taklimakan desert, XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

   • 2016 October 6, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2016‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, archived from the original on 10 November 2016, page 285‎^[4]:

     In October 2015, RFA reported that authorities in Awat county, Aksu prefecture, had forced 2 of the 109 Uyghurs forcibly deported from Thailand to participate in a film “as a deterrent to others in the area not to flee the country and seek asylum elsewhere.”

   • 2018 December 12, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities ‘Preparing’ Re-education Camps Ahead of Expected International Monitors”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[5], archived from the original on December 13, 2018‎^[6]:

     A source recently told RFA that residents of Awat (in Chinese, Awati) county, in the XUAR’s Aksu (Akesu) prefecture, had been informed that an “inspection team” would soon be visiting the area, which is home to three re-education camps.

   • 2019 October 27, “In pics: Dolan scenic spot of Awat County, northwest China's Xinjiang”, in Xiaoxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on February 28, 2020‎^[8]:

     People visit Dolan scenic spot of Awat County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 26, 2019.

2. A township in Maralbexi, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
3. A town in Yarkant, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
4. A township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2010, Donald Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations‎^[9], via Google Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     The general pattern is that the closer a township is to Kashgar city, the lower the changes of finding a female donkey in a household. Qoghan, Bäshkeräm, Awat, Yengi-östeng and Döwletbagh are townships which are within a 50-km distance from the city, and where female donkeys are nearly absent.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Awati, A-wa-t'i

Translations

locations in Xinjiang

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿瓦提 (zh) (Āwǎtí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئاۋات (awat)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Awati”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 249, column 3

Anagrams

• Tawa, tawa