玛拉巴什是巴楚县的维吾尔语县名,译作汉语是“鹿头”的意思。这个名称来自民间传说。据说县城一带原是荒无人烟的胡杨林地,野鹿成群。一个猎户在这里打猎,射中了一只鹿,追杀后将鹿头割下放在一个土岗上。于是人们就把这里命名为“玛拉巴什”,后来在这里设置了官府,就有了“玛拉巴什”的县名。这个传说是否属实,已无法考证。 Malabar is the Uyghur language county name in Bachu, which means “deer head” in Chinese. The name comes from folklore. It is said that the county was originally deserted Populus woodland, wild deer hordes. A hunter hunt here, shooting a deer, after the hunt cut the deer head on a soil. So people named this place “Marabash”, and later set up the official here, there is the “Malabar” county name. Whether this legend is true or not can not be verified.