karakoram
/ˌkɑɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A mountain range located in Gilgit, Ladakh and Baltistan, containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft), including K2, the second highest peak in the world.
Example Sentences
- "The Labiate genus Perovskia, to which the plant here figured belongs, is a somewhat anomalous one, comprising four species, two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan, and a fourth, the one now depicted, which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet. In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level."
- "To reach the Karakoram the expedition had to cross the vast mountainous region which lies between Kashmir and Chinese Turkestan, taking a different route each way."
- "The two sides also appeared to have dismantled recent construction along the river valley high in the Karakoram mountains, satellite images showed."
Etymology
Ultimately from a Turkic language, literally meaning "black gravel". See Ottoman Turkish قره (qara, “black”) and possibly قوروم (kurum, “soot”) (kurum) and compare Urdu قراقرم (qarāquram) / قرہ قرم (qara quram).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɑɹ.əˈkɔɹ.əm/
- British English: /ˌkɑː.ɹəˈkɔː.ɹəm/