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PRONUNCIATION OF SALWEEN

Salween  [ˈsælwiːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SALWEEN

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Salween is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SALWEEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Salween

Salween River

The Salween (Burmese: Thanlwin, IPA: ; Mon: သာန်လာန်,; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།, Wylie: rGyl mo rNGul chu; Chinese: 怒江; pinyin: Nù Jiāng; Shan: Nam Kong (Kong River); Thai: แม่น้ำสาละวิน, IPA: ; also spelled Salwine; Salawin, Thai; Gyalmo Ngulchu, Nu Jiang--which means "Angry River" in Chinese (The river is actually named after the Nu tribe that lives in the area but Chinese having no phonetic script had to use a character with a similar sound as Nu and that happens to be the character for rage), is a river, about 2,815 kilometres (1,749 mi) long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. It drains a narrow and mountainous watershed of 324,000 square kilometres (125,000 sq mi) that extends into the countries of China, Burma and Thailand. Steep canyon walls line the swift, powerful and undammed Salween, one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the world. Its extensive drainage basin supports a biodiversity comparable with the Mekong and is home to about 7 million people.

Definition of Salween in the English dictionary

The definition of Salween in the dictionary is a river in SW Asia, rising in the Tibetan Plateau and flowing east and south through SW China and Myanmar to the Gulf of Martaban. Length: 2400 km.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SALWEEN


atween
əˈtwiːn
between
bɪˈtwiːn
chloroquine
ˈklɔːrəʊˌkwiːn
cotquean
ˈkɒtˌkwiːn
McQueen
məˈkwiːn
mefloquine
ˈmɛfləʊˌkwiːn
misween
ˌmɪsˈwiːn
overween
ˌəʊvəˈwiːn
primaquine
ˈpraɪməˌkwiːn
quean
kwiːn
queen
kwiːn
totaquine
ˈtəʊtəˌkwiːn
unqueen
ʌnˈkwiːn
wean
wiːn
ween
wiːn
wheen
wiːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SALWEEN

Salvation Army
Salvation Jane
salvational
salvationism
salvationist
salvatory
salve
salver
salverform
salvia
salvific
salvifical
salvifically
salviniaceous
salvo
salvor
salwar kameez
Salyut
Salzburg
Salzgitter

WORDS THAT END LIKE SALWEEN

betwixt and between
come between
evergreen
few and far between
fifteen
go-between
green
Halloween
has-been
in between
in-between
Kathleen
keen
nothing to choose between
screen
seen
teen
the screen
the silver screen
touch screen

Synonyms and antonyms of Salween in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Salween» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SALWEEN

Find out the translation of Salween to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

萨尔温江
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Salween
570 millions of speakers

English

Salween
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सलवीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سالوين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Салуин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Salween
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Salween
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Salween
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salween
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Salween
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サルウィン川
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

살윈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Salween
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Salween
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சல்வீன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दरम्यान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Salween
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Salween
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Salween
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Салуїн
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Salween
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Salween
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Salween
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Salween
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Salween
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Salween

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SALWEEN»

The term «Salween» is regularly used and occupies the 99.128 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SALWEEN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Salween

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SALWEEN»

Discover the use of Salween in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Salween and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Civil Society Activism Under Authoritarian Rule: A ...
Environmental Politics, 14(2): 163–178. Salween Watch (2007). Salween Watch: Threatened Peoples, Threatened River. Salween Watch. Chiang Mai. www. salweenwatch.org/index.html. Updated: 21 November. Accessed: 14 December 2007 ...
Francesco Cavatorta, 2013
2
The Land of the Blue Poppy
XXXVI The Salween ferry at Lu-k'ou , 228 Shan village in the foot-hills of the Salween Valley near Hwei-p'o „ XXXVII Looking down into the Salween Valley from the Salween- Shweli Divide near Hwei-p'o 240 Chain and wood bridge over the ...
Francis Kingdon Ward
3
Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar ...
The Salween Riverpasses throughShan,Kayah (Karenni)State andKayin (Karen) Statesin Myanmar beforeemptying into theGulfof Mottama ... proposeddams on the Salween Rivertherefore precipitateda multiethnicdimension tothe campaigns.
Dr Adam Simpson, 2014
4
International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for ...
The Salween River Basin The Salween River, known in China as the Nu Jiang, rising on the Tibetan Plateau, runs nearly 1,750 miles (2,800 km). It is the region's longest freeflowing river. Its course takes it through China's Yunnan Province, ...
Donald E. Weatherbee, 2008
5
Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice
13.11. Multi-riparian. basins: the. Salween. River. Aaron. T. Wolf. and. Joshua. T. Newton. • In the absence of a transboundary water management (TWM) agreement, riparian stakeholders may proceed with unilateral initiatives that make ...
Anton Earle, Anders Ja ̈gerskog, Joakim O ̈jendal, 2013
6
Water: Asia's New Battleground
The string of planned dams on the Salween would help generate 21,300 megawatts of hydropower, slightly less than the 22,500-megawatt full generating capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, the last of whose thirty-two turbine generators  ...
Brahma Chellaney, 2013
7
Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945
By May 7, the spearhead of the Japanese motorized division had reached the west bank of the mile-deep Salween gorge about seventy-five miles inside the Chinese border. Chennault was fearful that Churchill's prophecy was about to be  ...
Cornelius, Wanda
8
The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in ...
The Yangtze, Mekong and Salween, among the most important rivers of Asia, changed their course, at times were connected or disconnected, or part of them changed direction as the Himalayan range was rising. The following is summarized ...
D. J. Allen, K. G. Smith, W. R. T. Darwall
9
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: "Hydropower, ...
Myanmar, as we discuss below, is home to several of those projects, and Chinese companies are making inroads there and throughout the Lower Mekong watershed. We begin with an overview of the Nu-Salween watershed and then provide ...
Franois Molle, 2012
10
Plant Hunter In Tibet
But eventually I stood by the mysterious Salween. A line of huge boulders marked the narrow shore. The turbid yellowish water seethed as it spun along at ten or twelve miles an hour, but this appearance of boiling was occasioned rather by ...
Frank Kingdom-Ward, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SALWEEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Salween is used in the context of the following news items.
1
MoU for Salween hydropower project to be signed between …
An anonymous source from the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) said that aside from the hydropower project on the Salween, Myanmar's ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
2
Salween Thai is delicious; undeservingly overlooked
Salween Thai's food is delicious but seems to be a bit ignored by the Des Moines restaurant crowd. I was there on a Friday between 6:30 and 7:35 p.m. and my ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jun 15»
3
Shan urge end to Mong Tong dam
The Thai and Myanmar governments should scrap the hydro-powered Mon Tong dam on the upper Salween River as it will harm the livelihoods of ethnic ... «Bangkok Post, Jun 15»
4
Salween dam projects jeopardise fragile ceasefire accords
An ethnic Karen woman makes her way down to the banks of the Salween River near Tha Ta Fang, Thailand. The area is scheduled to be inundated by a dam. «Bangkok Post, May 15»
5
Dam proposals for Salween River threaten tentative ceasefire …
A conference showcased the natural and cultural heritage of Myanmar's Salween River, where proposed dams have contributed to conflict between the ... «Mongabay.com, Apr 15»
6
The Salween River: Threatened Paddling Classics
The Salween River begins in the highlands of Tibet and flows 1,700 miles through western China and Burma before reaching the Andaman Sea. It's the longest ... «CANOE & KAYAK, Mar 15»
7
Two-Day Event Honors Salween River Heritage
A two-day natural and cultural heritage event to honor the the Salween River and its people will be held in Hpa-an Karen State from the 27 to 28 March. «Karen News, Mar 15»
8
Taming the wild Salween
Time may be running out for Southeast Asia's last major undammed river - the Salween, also known as the Nu in China and Thanlwin in Myanmar, which ... «Asia Times Online, Jan 15»
9
Civil Society Organizations Call for Halt to Salween Dam Projects
A view from the Thai side of the Salween River. ... calling for an unconditional halt to plans for the construction of dams on the Salween River and its tributaries. «The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Jan 15»
10
Dam projects on mighty Salween River threaten to re-ignite …
17, 2014 photo, an ethnic Karen woman makes her way down to the banks of the Salween river near Tha Ta Fang, Thailand. Myanmar's government calls them ... «Fox News, Dec 14»

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