Kizilsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Kyrgyz كىزىلسۋ / Кызылсуу (Kızılsuu, literally “red water”), from кызыл (kızıl, “red”) + суу (suu, “water”). Cognate with Uyghur قىزىلسۇ (qizilsu).
Senses: examples: text: On August 21, the Southern Xinjiang Administrative Office was established at Kazgar, with jurisdiction over the Aksu, Kazgar, Xiache, and Hetian Special Districts and the newly established Kizilsu A.Z. and Tash Kurghan A.X.
ref: 1979, Donald H. McMillen, Chinese Communist Power and Policy in Xinjiang, 1949-1977, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
text: The Kirgizs. This nationality has a population of 113,999, of which about 80 per cent live in close communities in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
ref: 1985, 《中国手册》编辑委员会 [China Handbook Editorial Committee], translated by Chen Zhucai, 社会生活 [Life and Lifestyles] (《中国手册》 [China Handbook Series]), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:
english: China Handbook Series
translation: China Handbook Series
text: Xinjiang provincial television said in a broadcast from Urumqi, the regional capital, that a revolt by a "small number of ruffians" was put down in the town of Baren in the Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture on April 5 and 6.
ref: 1990 April 23, “Beijing Reports 22 Deaths In Revolt in Western Region”, in New York Times:
text: The semi-nomadic Kyrgyz are spread throughout western and southern Xinjiang, but there is a significant concentration in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, set in the foothills of the Tianshan range which separates them from their kin in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Most Kyrgyz are herdsmen, tending flocks of sheep and camels and, like the Kazakhs, they moved their animals across the mountains according to the season until the Sino-Soviet dispute closed the border. Their language and customs are closely related to those of their Kazakh neighbours.
ref: 1996, Michael Dillon, China's Muslims, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: An awkward silence persisted in the corridor of level six of the Artux People’s Hospital in Kizilsu Prefecture until at last the lone woman in the group finally spoke.
ref: 2016, Alex Ryan, Beijing Red, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:
glosses: A Kirgiz autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, China.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Kezilesu
word: K'o-tzu-le-su
word: K'o-tzu-lo-su
word: Kotzulosu
sense: shortened
word: Kezhou
word: Kizil-Su
raw_tags: from Russian
word: Kizil Su
sense: from Uyghur
word: Qïzïl Su
word: Qïzïl-Su
word: Qïzïl-su
word: Qizil Su
sense: from Kyrgyz
word: Kyzyl-su
Related terms: sense: Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix
word: Aksu
sense: Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix
word: Kyzyl-Suu
sense: Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix
word: Onsu
sense: Other geographical terms with the -su (water/river) suffix
word: Zhetysu
sense: Other geographical terms with the word 'kizil' (red)
word: Kiziloy
sense: Other geographical terms with the word 'kizil' (red)
word: Kizilto
sense: Other geographical terms with the word 'kizil' (red)
word: Kizil Caves