Altyn-Taghとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Uyghur ئالتۇن تاغ (altun tagh, “golden mountain”).

発音

固有名詞

Altyn Tagh

1. A mountain range in Central Asia.
   • [1879, N. Prejevalsky, chapter II, in E. Delmar Morgan, transl., From Kulja, Across the Tian Shan to Lob-nor‎, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 76:

     The water used in irrigating the soil is led from the Chargalyk-daria, which flows from the neighbouring Altyn-tagh mountains, an elevated range south of Lob-nor.]

   • 1942 October 4, Jane Spence Southron, “Secret Army; THE GOLDEN HORDE. By La Selle Gilman. 466 pp. New York Smith & Durrell. $2.75.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08‎:

     THIS is a personal story, with a physical background stretching from the River Don in Russia across Siberia, down through Mongolia and Northwestern China to the lofty, inhospitable Altyn Tagh, first step to the Kunlun ranges bordering Tibet.

   • 2011, Stephan Talty, “An Examination of Prior Memories”, in Escape from the Land of Snows‎ (History), New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Tibet is awash in superlatives. It is the highest country on earth and the most mountainous, with three-quarters of the country’s territory lying at 16,000 feet or higher, a full three miles above sea level. It’s ringed by world-class mountain ranges on three sides. In the north, the Altyn Tagh range separates Tibet from China’s Xinjiang province and the Gobi desert.

   • 2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu‎, archived from the original on 07 November 2020‎:

     From the Qaidam basin, trains will tunnel through the Altyn-Tagh — a mountain range that separates the eastern Tarim basin from the Tibetan plateau.

同意語

• Altun