Yarkandn.
/ˈjɑːkand//jɑːˈkand/ 1. A language or dialect of the central Turkic or Turco-Tatar group of Altaic languages, spoken in the district of Yarkand. Also attributive.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [noun] > Turkic > specific Turkic languages
Uzbek1616
Uighur1843
Yarkand1875
Nogai1886
Kyrgyz1908
Yakut1908
Taranchi1911
Kazakh1918
Tchambuli1935
Kumyk1970
1875 R. B. Shaw Sketch Turki Lang. p. xv An examination of the Yarkánd and Káshghar dialect accounts for them in another way.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 236 Yarkand, an Asiatic language, member of the Central Turkish group of the Altaic sub-family of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.
2. Used attributively and absol. to designate a type of Turkoman carpet.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet
ingrain1836
thick-piled1853
Yarkand1880
Tekke1900
washed1911
Transylvanian1915
Herati1931
Lotto1931
Seljuk1931
shag pile1946
tufted1960
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > Oriental > Turkestan
Khotan1871
Kashgar1900
Turkoman carpet1901
Tekke Bokhara1911
Yarkand1913
Saryk1922
Turkoman1962
1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Industr. Arts India II. 168 The tree of life represented on modern Yarkand rugs is always a pomegranate tree.
1913 W. A. Hawley Oriental Rugs xii. 251 In Plate L..are two of the most typical and interesting stripes of Samarkands and Yarkands... A stripe with simple archaic pattern peculiar to Yarkands is seen in Plate L.
1931 A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets x. 224 Kashgar and Yarkand rugs..are attributed more or less arbitrarily.
1967 U. Schürmann Oriental Carpets 72 The eastern Turkestan rugs commonly known..as ‘Samarkand’ come..from the three oasis-cities of Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan... A small number of silk Yarkands also exist.
1970 J. Franses European & Oriental Rugs 146 (caption) Eastern Turkestan Yarkand runner in the form of a saph. Circa 1800.
3. Zoology. Used attributively to designate a heavily built kind of red deer with short antlers that is found in Sinkiang Uighur.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [adjective] > of or relating to members of genus Cervus
axine1826
rusine1850
rucervine1880
damine1891
Yarkand1892
1892 Proc. Zool. Soc. 116 Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited two heads..and a skin of the Yarkand Stag.
1892 Proc. Zool. Soc. 117 The name C[ervus] yarkandensis may be applied to the Yarkand and Tarim Deer.
1918 R. Lydekker Wild Life of World II. 231 Very distinct from the wapiti type is the Yarkand deer..of the forests of the Tarim Valley.
1982 G. K. Whitehead Hunting & stalking Deer iv. 111 Among the most endangered are the Yarkand deer..of Chinese Turkestan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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