Burang

See also: buRang

English

Alternative forms

• Purang

Etymology

From Tibetan སྤུ་ཧྲེང (spu hreng).

Proper noun

Burang

1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 2022 August 9, Eunice Yang, “Coronavirus: Tibet’s Potala Palace shut as first Covid-19 cases since 2020 put Lhasa on high alert”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 09, 2022, Science‎^[2]:

     Some of those infected were members of the same family that had travelled from the southwestern city of Xigaze to Lhasa for a funeral. A day earlier, four tourists in Burang county of Ngari prefecture, who had travelled there from Xigaze, also tested positive for the virus.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Pulan

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 普蘭／普兰 (pou² laan⁴)

  Mandarin: 普蘭／普兰 (zh) (Pǔlán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང (spu hreng)