Hami

See also: hami, Hāmì, and Ha-mi

English

Alternative forms

• Ha-mi (also from Wade–Giles)

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.
   • 1913, Thomas Cochrane, “Chapter XXI.”, in Survey of the Missionary Occupation of China‎^[1], Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 332:

     Tulufan or Turfan and Fayuan or Kucheng lie to the east of the capital. Hami, an oasis in the desert, is yet nearer the eastern boundary of the province and is an important post on the chief road into China proper.

   • 1937, Sir Eric Teichman, Journey to Turkistan‎^[2], 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.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Food”, in Yilan County Government‎^[3], 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 March 3, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “RFA Uyghur Service Editor’s Brothers Confirmed Detained by Xinjiang Authorities”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[4], archived from the original on 04 March 2021‎^[5]:

     Sulaiman’s older brother Ehet, the 57-year-old director of the Tengritagh Township Teaching District in Kumul (in Chinese, Hami) prefecture, and his younger brother Ehmet, the 39-year-old head of Kumul’s Tengritagh township, have both been detained since 2018, RFA recently learned after interviewing several local officials.

   • 2021 July 26, William J. Broad, David E. Sanger, “A 2nd New Nuclear Missile Base for China, and Many Questions About Strategy”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-26, Politics‎^[7]:

     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.

Synonyms

• Khamil, Hamil, Kumul, Qumul

Translations

city in Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 哈密 (haa¹ mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 哈密 (zh) (Hāmì)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: Құмыл (Qūmyl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᡥᠠᠮᡳ (hami)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قۇمۇل (qumul)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hami”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1223, column 2

Anagrams

• MIHA, Miah, hiam

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

Derived terms

• Hami Tahemānia

 

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[9], 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