Hohhot

== English == === Alternative forms === Huhehot, Huhhot, Kuku Khoto, Kökeqota, Kokeqota === Etymology === From Mongolian Хөх хот (Xöx xot), modern form of ᠬᠥᠬᠡᠬᠣᠲᠠ (kökeqota), from ᠬᠥᠬᠡ (köke, “dark blue; (hist.) green, grue”) + ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (qota, “town, city”), given to the settlement by Altan Khan in the 1580s. His previous palace and monastery established outside modern Baotou in 1572 bore the same name, although it is now frequently connected to the nearby Daqing Mountains instead, whose name is similarly ambiguous between blue and green. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hoʊˈhɒt/ === Proper noun === Hohhot The capital city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in north-central China. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hohhot. ==== Synonyms ==== (from Mandarin Chinese) Huhehaote, Hu-ho-hao-t'e (historical) Kweisui (Guisui, Kuei-sui) ==== Related terms ==== Erenhot ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hohhot”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1295, column 2 Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition) “Hohhot, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “Hohhot”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. Enkhjargal Purev & al., "Color Terms in Mongolian Place Names: A Typological Perspective", Вопросы Ономастики, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2023), pp. 140–155.