I have experienced many sandstorms in Takla-makan and the Lob-nor desert, but hardly any so bad as this was.
I can remember in all my travels, except the sandy sea of the Takla-makan desert.
The driftsand now floats so thickly over the lake that the eastern and northern shores are invisible; we might be sitting on a dune in the heart of the Takla-makan desert.
Makan al-Ayat (place of signs), at the Mosque of Kuba, i.
Gabriel’s place (Makan Jibrail), in the Mosque of the Prophet, i.
Now when the Fireman heard these words he feared for Zau al-Makan and wept with exceeding weeping and said to the Eunuch, "By Allah, it was not I, and I know him not.
When Zau al-Makan heard this he wept and said, "Who is it would forbid me to recite?
FN#321] Then he went up to Zau al-Makan and gave him joy of his safety and reunion with his sister, and bade his servants forthwith make him ready a tent and one of the best of his own horses to ride.
When Zau al-Makan and his brother Sharrkan and the Minister Dandan looked upon this host, they saw that it was a numerous army and said, "Who can have given these troops information of us?
The latter had succeeded to the name of the dog which died in the Takla-makan desert.
In this succession of deserts extending over the Old World from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic the Takla-makan is, then, a link.
Contents of the Third Volume The Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan (cont) aa.
But Zau al-Makan came up to him smiling in his face, and greeted him after the friendliest fashion, saying, "How soon hast thou forgotten me?
Thereupon they set forward, whilst King "Fighter for the Faith" returned to his government that he might order affairs and get ready his munitions of war, awaiting such time as King Zau al- Makan should send a requisition to him.
As for Zau al-Makan he marched up to the Palace and went in to his son Kanmakan, who had now reached the age of seven; and who used to go down to the weapon plain and ride.
With this the Stoker rose to is feet and Zau al-Makan signed to him to sit; but he refused, saying, "Allah forfend!
And this is the whole that hath come down to us of the dealings of fortune with King Omar bin al-Nu'uman and his sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan and his son's son Kanmakan and his daughter Nuzhat al-Zaman and her daughter Kuzia Fakan.
Then Zau al- Makan laughed at him and the Wazir, coming up to him expounded the whole story to him and said, "In good sooth he was thy brother and thy friend; and now he is King of the land and needs must thou get great good of him.
The Sultan and all present laughed and Zau al-Makan said, "Ask something more than this.
In Malabar there were two poets called Venmani Achchan Nambutiri and Venmani Makan Nambutiri, venmani signifying the name of the illam.
These regions are the southern parts of the desert of Takla-makan (where Sven Hedin and M.
For these vast accumulations of sand are constantly in movement; though the movement is slow, it has nevertheless been calculated that in the south of the Takla-makan the sand-dunes travel bodily at the rate of roughly something like 160 ft.
There is something that I want; it is to invite you to a trifling entertainment-- Ada hajat sadikit handak jamu makan sadikit ayer-ayer sejuk.
Sometimes the word apa at the commencement of a sentence gives it an interrogative sense;[1] as apa, tuan ta’ makan daging karbau?
Rumah di-makan api, the house was consumed by fire.
This skin has been destroyed by insects-- Kulit ini habis-lah di-makan ulat.
For a day or two past she has been unable to eat-- Sudah satu dua hari dia ta’ lalu makan nasi.
I had just finished my breakfast, and was about to smoke a cigar-- Sahaya pun baharu lepas makan nasi tengah handak minum rokok.
For five or six days he has been unable to eat-- Sudah lima anam hari dia ta’buleh makan nasi.
Then they cut across the country, wide and side, night and day, and when morning dawned they reached the head of the defile and saw Zau al-Makan and Sharrkan shouting.
In very sooth, we run danger from these enemies, whose numbers may not be told and whose resources none can withhold, especially in the absence of King Zau al-Makan and his brother Sharrkan and the illustrious Wazir Dandan.
Thereupon Zau al-Makan gave over his weeping and caused his throne to be set up without the pavilion, and then commanded the army to pass in review-order before him.
Kara Makan was so well prepared for this outburst of anger on the Sultan's part that he was not in the least taken aback.
Kara Makan did not live to experience that hour of humiliation; a cannon-ball took off his head so cleanly that his body could only be identified by his girdle.
But Mahmoud arose, spurned them aside from the prince, as they supposed him to be, and taking from the hands of Kara Makan the document and writing materials, signed his name beneath it.
Kara Makan was not bright enough to penetrate the irony of these words; nay, rather, he felt himself flattered by the humility of the Sultan's speech.
The rebels drowned his speech in curses, and above the curses rose the thundering voice of Kara Makan hounding on the fanatical mob against the destroyers of the faith of Osman.
Kara Makan put on an important look, as of one who knows that the fate of empires is in his hands.
One older and uglier than the rest--if possible--seemed to take the lead inmakan wry faces, and all sorts of mockan tricks.
When his family were moved, he and the boy worked together on tribute, and worked hard makan double cores.
It appears to be a rule that the rivers which eventually terminate in the deserts of Gobi and Takla-makan grow increasingly larger in magnitude from east to west.
In the narrower acceptation it applies only to those ranges which part the desert of Takla-makan on the N.
The daily food of the shepherd agriculturists on the Kuen Lun margin of the Takla Makan Desert is bread and milk; meat is indulged in only three or four times a month.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "makan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
