Hami

See also: hami, Hāmì, and Ha-mi

English

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Etymology

From Mandarin 哈密 (Hāmì) Wade–Giles romanization: Ha¹-mi⁴, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: häʹmēʹ

Proper noun

Hami

  1. A city in eastern Xinjiang, China.
    • 1937, Sir Eric Teichman, Journey to Turkistan, Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 27:
      THE decision having been reached to send me to Sinkiang, the question arose as to how I was to get there. Urumchi can be reached from three directions ; from Kashmir in India across the Himalaya, Karakoram and Pamir to Kashgar, and thence a further journey of near a thousand miles through Eastern Turkistan to Urumchi ; from China across the Gobi desert to Hami and thence on across the T'ien Shan range to Urumchi ; and via the Trans-Siberian and Turkistan-Siberian railways through Russian Central Asia to the Chinese frontier town of Chuguchak (Ta-ch'eng) and thence by cart or motor truck across the Dzungarian steppe to Urumchi.
    • n.d., “Food”, in Yilan County Government, archived from the original on 29 March 2018:
      The Hami melon, native to the Hami Region of Sinjiang Province, has found a new home here in Jhuangwei, Yilan. The soil downstream of the Lanyang River is great for the cultivation of hami melon because of the plentiful sunshine, excellent water system, and the local mild weather. The Hami melon was introduced to Jhuangwei in 1982.
    • 2021 July 26, Broad, William J.; David E. Sanger, “A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-26, Politics:
      The new silos are clearly being built to be discovered. The most recent silo field, on which construction began in March, is in the eastern part of the Xinjiang region, not far from one of China’s notorious “re-education” camps in the city of Hami.

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Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sami. Cognates include Tongan hami and Samoan Sami.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhʲa.mi/
  • Hyphenation: Ha‧mi

Noun

Hami

  1. (only in compounds) sea

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References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 298

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حامی. Compare Arabic حَامِيّ (ḥāmiyy).

Proper noun

Hami

  1. a male given name
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