Tarim

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• enPR: tärēmʹ, därēmʹ

Tarim

1. A river in Xinjiang, China.
   • 2013 April 30, Steven Mufson, “China struggles to tap its shale gas”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-10-21, Business‎:

     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, archived from the original on 07 November 2020‎:

     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 Basin

• “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