# Tian Shan
## English
### Alternative forms

* Tian-shan, Tianshan, Tian-Shan, Tien Shan, Tienshan

### Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation of Mandarin 天山 (Tiān Shān), from Uyghur تەڭرىتاغ (tengritagh, literally “Mountains of God (Tengri)”) (Tengri Tagh).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌtjɛn ˈʃɑːn/

### Proper noun

Tian Shan
* A mountain range in Central Asia.
** [1905, Gottfried Merzbacher, The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903‎, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:WHEN in 1892, on a journey into Central Asia, I first made acquaintance with a small portion of the Central Tian-Shan, I received, even by a mere flying visit, abiding impressions of its magnificent mountain chains.]
** [1935 March 20 [1935 March 10], “ANOTHER CHINESE LOSS IN SINKIANG”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume CXCIV, number 3528, Shanghai, sourced from Peiping, →OCLC, page 448, column 2:Next they turned against Ma Chung-ying and drove him back to the T'ienshan mountains. But the Red Russian forces when pursuing him received a severe check at a well-known pass, called Tapancheng, where Ma had strongly entrenched himself with about 500 men.]
** [1977 September, “The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall Successfully Completed”, in China Pictorial‎, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:Warm letters and precious gifts came pouring in to the construction site from all parts of the country. Among the gifts were saw-wort seeds gathered from the Tienshan Mountains by workers in Singkiang, chingko barley from emancipated serfs in Tibet, earth from people in quake-stricken Tangshan who were rebuilding their homes, water and sand from the Taiwan Straits from P.L.A. men on the Fukien frontline, colour pebbles from Yuhuatai, Nanking, milky quartz from the Kunlun Mountains, camellias from Tali, Yunnan, azaleas from Kangting, Szechuan, earth from the Chingkang Mountains, Kiangsi, water from Nanniwan, Shensi, etc. They embodied the profound proletarian feelings of the people of all nationalities for Chairman Mao.]
** [1978 July 11 [1978 July 8], “Leading Cadres Must Accept Criticism and Supervision From the Masses”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, volume I, number 133, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original by Wang Feng (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 15:During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]
** 2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.
** 2022 June 16, Dave Kindy, “DNA evidence reveals where the Black Death began”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, RETROPOLIS‎:The excavation of the KaraDjigach site, in the Chu-Valley within the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, in August 1886.

#### Synonyms

* (from Uyghur) Tengri Tagh

#### Hyponyms

* Karatau (westernmost extension)

#### Translations
## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Tian Shan m
* Alternative spelling of Tian-Shan