gobi
/ˈɡoʊ.bi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.54 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold."
- "These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship."
- "In 1941, Chang traveled to the remote Gobi Desert in Northwest China and lived in the Tun Huang Caves for two years and seven months."
- "The Gobi Desert is a large desert in Asia. It covers about 500,000 square miles (1,294,994 sq km), stretching from the Tien Shan Mountains in the west and across southeastern Mongolia and northern China."
- "The same livestock population explosion is damaging the overgrazed grasslands surrounding China’s Gobi Desert, where the dust storms are also increasing dramatically."
- "In November, I visited China’s rocket base deep in the frozen Gobi Desert to witness the launch of three astronauts during the Shenzhou 15 mission to China’s new space station."
Etymology
From Mongolian Говь (Govʹ) or ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (Ɣobi).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡoʊ.bi/
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Gobi (canonical)
Cobi (alternative, obsolete)
Cobe (alternative, obsolete)
Kobi (alternative, obsolete)
Gobee (alternative, obsolete)
Goby (alternative, obsolete)
gobhi (alternative)
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
Shamo
Desert of Shamo