Tengri Nor

[ teng-gree-nawr, nohr ]

noun

1. a salt lake in eastern Tibet, northwest of Lhasa. About 700 square miles (1,813 square kilometers); 15,186 feet (4,629 meters) above sea level.

Tengri Nor

/ ˈtɛŋɡrɪ ˈnɔː /

noun

1. another name for Nam Co

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tengri Nor¹

First recorded in 1840–45; from Mongolian Tenger Nuur “Heavenly Lake”

Example Sentences

Nain Singh explored the sources of the Indus and of the Upper Brahmaputra in the years 1865-1867; and in 1874-1875 he followed a line from the eastern frontiers of Kashmir to the Tengri Nor lake and thence to Lhasa, in which city he remained for some months.

From Project Gutenberg

Often in India I had dreamed of the great inland waters of Tibet and Mongolia, the haunts of myriads of duck and geese—Yamdok Tso, Tengri Nor, Issik Kul, names of romance to the wild-fowler, to be breathed with reverence and awe.

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They passed along here and over the next range, and across range after range, until they reached the two conical snow-peaks that stand out of the plain beside Tengri Nor, a hundred miles to the north.

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I take it that no respectable duck spends the summer south of the Tengri Nor.

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The slab lies a stone's-throw to the left of the great northern road to Tengri Nor and Mongolia, about two miles from the city.

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