Type Surname (from location)
Scripts ال کاشغري(Uyghur) آل قشقري(Arabic)
Other Forms FormsKashgari
Meaning & History
Alternate transcription of Uyghur كاشغەرىي and Arabic كاشغري (see Kashgari). A famous bearer was Mahmud al-Kashgari (1005-1102), an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.