Barin

//bɑ.ɹɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    "Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Peyziwat (Jiashi) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that hundreds of the Islamic holy books printed before 2012 had been seized since authorities issued an order recalling them on Jan. 15."

  2. 2
    A township in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    "The counter-revolutionary armed riot which took place in the Barin town of Aktu County on April 5, 1990 was a well-planned, well-organized and premeditated violent act of a small number of reactionaries and ethnic separatists hidden in Barin. Cloaked in religion, they deceived and forced some blind-minded public to take part in their plot to destroy national unity and overthrow the government. The riot was a rare and the most serious incident carried out by the ethnic separatists since the liberation of Xinjiang."

  3. 3
    A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  4. 4
    A township in Shule, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  5. 5
    A village in Barin, Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    "Thanks to this work and research experience I had the possibility to get access areas which in 2012 were still closed to foreigners and Chinese non-residents as Peizawat County, Akto County, and Barin village, to collect material and make interviews to farmers."

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of boyar.

    "Do not take him away, for he is a Barin, and yet he seeks to understand the mujik, and that also is a new thing."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Russian ба́рин (bárin).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Uyghur بارىن (barin).

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