(n) a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991, Syn. Turkmenia, Turkomen, Turkmen
[阿姆河, Ā mǔ héㄚ ㄇㄨˇ ㄏㄜˊ] Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islami#147633