Karakoram

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌkɑː.ɹəˈkɔː.ɹəm/|/ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔː.ɹəm/    美 /ˌkɑɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/|/ˌkæɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.
    — The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level.

词形变化

Karakorum alternative

词源

Ultimately from a Turkic language, literally meaning "black gravel". See Ottoman Turkish قره (qara, “black”) and possibly قوروم (kurum, “soot”) (kurum) and compare Urdu قراقرم (qarāquram) / قرہ قرم (qara quram).
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