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Yarkandi, n. and a.|jɑːˈkændɪ|
Also 9– Yarkundi.
[f. prec.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the city or district of Yarkand.
1841H. H. Wilson Trav. Moorcroft & Trebeck I. ii. iii. 351 A Yarkandi asserted that an infusion of poppy-heads was employed to render the leaves of the tea adhesive. 1875in T. D. Forsyth Report Mission to Yarkund iii. (facing page) 118 (caption) Yarkundis. 1901P. W. Church Chinese Turkestan iii. 33 The guileless Yarkandis. 1926C. P. Skrine Chinese Central Asia viii. 106 A charming..and well educated Yarkandi called Murad Qari..partook of tea. 1981A. Ali in Himalayan Jrnl. XXXVII. 115 The Yarkandis used this route [sc. Saser La in the Karakorams] for trade and for going on haj to Mecca.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Yarkand or its people.
1854A. Cunningham Ladák iii. 49 My informants, who were also Yarkandi merchants, stated exactly the reverse. 1893H. Lansdell Chinese Central Asia II. xxxiv. 108 Turdi Akhoon, a Yarkandi merchant..had arrived from India. 1928‘Ganpat’ Magic Ladakh xiv. 255 It is a hard life on the Central Asian trade route if you happen to be a hired ponyman travelling with a callous Yarkandi merchant. 1973M. Bence-Jones Palaces of Raj viii. 144 A portly General endeavoured to stop his Yarkundi pony from jumping over the railings. |