Tian Shan

• Tien Shan, Tienshan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation of Mandarin 天山 (Tiān Shān), from Uyghur تەڭرىتاغ (tengritagh, literally “Mountains of God (Tengri)”) (Tengri Tagh).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtjɛn ˈʃɑːn/

Tian Shan

1. A mountain range in Central Asia.
   • [1905, Gottfried Merzbacher, The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903‎, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

     WHEN in 1892, on a journey into Central Asia, I first made acquaintance with a small portion of the Central Tian-Shan, I received, even by a mere flying visit, abiding impressions of its magnificent mountain chains.]

   • [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, numbers 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

   • 2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)‎, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:

     We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.

   • 2022 June 16, Dave Kindy, “DNA evidence reveals where the Black Death began”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, RETROPOLIS‎:

     The excavation of the KaraDjigach site, in the Chu-Valley within the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, in August 1886.

• (from Uyghur) Tengri Tagh

Tian Shan m

1. Alternative spelling of Tian-Shan