Tarim

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• enPR: tärēmʹ, därēmʹ

Tarim

1. A river in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • 2002 July 19, “Traffic flows where river once did”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 October 2024‎^[2]:

     Similarly, Lop Nur Lake, in southeastern Xinjiang, which once supported a thriving indigenous culture, dried up for good in the early 1970s. Its lifeline, the Tarim River, which used to skirt the northern fringe of the Taklamakan Desert, has been sucked dry by upstream agriculture.

   • 2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2016, Business‎^[4]:

     The Tarim River, he notes, used to drain into a large inland lake, which dried up completely in the 1960s.

   • 2019 June 29, Atul Aneja, “The inescapable revival of the Tarim basin”, in The Hindu‎^[5], archived from the original on 07 November 2020‎^[6]:

     For several decades, the lower Tarim river, in proximity of the new transport corridors, had been in the eye of a major ecological disaster. The upper part of the 2,030 km river was heavily dammed for agricultural purposes.

• “Tarim, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tarim”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Armit, Mitra, amrit, matri-, mitra, timar, tirma

From Arabic تَرِيم (tarīm, “Tarim”).

Tarim

1. Tarim, a city in Tarim district, Hadhramaut governorate, Yemen

• “Tarim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.