Gobi
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Mongolian Говь (Govʹ) or ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (Ɣobi).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡoʊ.bi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
editGobi
- A large desert in Asia, spanning the countries of Mongolia and China.
- 1901 December 21, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal[1], volume LXXV, number 23, →OCLC, page 181, column 1:
- In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold.
- 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920[2], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:
- These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.
- 2013, Moly Aloian, The Gobi Desert (Deserts Around the World)[4], Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
- The Gobi Desert is a large desert in Asia. It covers about 500,000 square miles (1,294,994 sq km), stretching from the Tien Shan Mountains in the west and across southeastern Mongolia and northern China.
- 2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change[5], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 193:
- The same livestock population explosion is damaging the overgrazed grasslands surrounding China’s Gobi Desert, where the dust storms are also increasing dramatically.
- 2022 December 16, Keith Bradsher, “A Visit Inside China’s Desert Rocket Base”, in The New York Times[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2022, Science[7]:
- In November, I visited China’s rocket base deep in the frozen Gobi Desert to witness the launch of three astronauts during the Shenzhou 15 mission to China’s new space station.
- 2023 March 22, “China: Sandstorms blanket Beijing as air pollution spikes”, in Deutsche Welle[8], archived from the original on 22 March 2023[9]:
- Beijing regularly faces dust storms in March and April due to its proximity to the Gobi desert as well as deforestation throughout northern China.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Gobi.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdesert
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Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gobi Desert”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[10], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1377, column 1
- “Gobi”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Gobi Desert, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Gobi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Gobi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
Anagrams
editGerman
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editGobi f (proper noun, genitive Gobi)
- a desert in China and Mongolia; Gobi
Synonyms
edit- dated: Schamo
Further reading
edit- “Gobi” in Duden online
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