Nagqu

English

Etymology

From Tibetan ནག་ཆུ (nag chu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: näg′cho͞o

Proper noun

Nagqu

1. A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1995 May 15, “Tibet Buddhists Call Boy, 6, Reincarnation of No. 2 Monk”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 March 2010, Section A, page 6‎^[2]:

     The Dalai Lama gave few details about the boy or how he was discovered. He said only that the child was born in the Lhari district in Nagqu four months after the previous Panchen Lama died in January 1989.

   • [2022 July 14, Sangyal Kunchok, Nawar Nemeh, “Tibetan Woman Arrested for Dalai Lama Photo”, in Tenzin Dickyi, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 14 July 2022‎^[4]:

     Youdon was arrested in her hometown of Tsarang Township, Amdo County in Tibet’s Nagchu region.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 那曲 (naa⁵ kuk¹)

  Mandarin: 那曲 (zh) (Nàqǔ, Nàqū)

• Tibetan: ནག་ཆུ (nag chu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nagqu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2106, column 1: “Also appears as Nagchu, Nagchhu, or Nakchukha, or Nagu.”