Amur

See also: amur and amûr

English

Amur watershed

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian Аму́р (Amúr) of unknown origin.

The names of the river among the languages of the region usually translate to "black river", such as Mongolian Хар мөрөн (Xar mörön), Manchu ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ
ᡠᠯᠠ (sahaliyan ula) or Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng, literally “black dragon river”).

Proper noun

Amur

1. The world's ninth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
2. Amur Region or Amurskaya Oblast: a federal subject of Russia, its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.

Alternative forms

• Amur River
• Heilongjiang (Chinese name)

Derived terms

• Amur tiger
• Amurian

Translations

the river between the Far East Russia and China

• Arabic: آمُور m (ʔāmūr)
• Armenian: Ամուր (hy) (Amur)
• Belarusian: Аму́р m (Amúr)
• Bulgarian: Аму́р m (Amúr)
• Catalan: Amur
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑龍江／黑龙江 (zh) (Hēilóngjiāng), 黑龙江 (zh) (Hēilóngjiāng), 阿穆爾河／阿穆尔河 (zh) (Āmù'ěrhé), 阿穆尔河 (zh) (Āmù'ěr-hé)

• Czech: Amur (cs) f
• Danish: Amur
• Daur: Хар мур (Har mur)
• Dutch: Amoer
• Esperanto: Amuro
• Estonian: Amuur
• Finnish: Amur (fi)
• French: Amour (fr) m
• Georgian: ამური (amuri)
• German: Amur (de) m
• Greek: Αμούρ (Amoúr)
• Hebrew: אמור (he) f (Amur)
• Hindi: आमुर (āmur)
• Hungarian: Amur (hu)
• Italian: Amur
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• Japanese: アムール川 (Amūru-gawa), 黒竜江 (こくりゅうこう, Kokuryūkō)
• Korean: 아무르강 (Amureugang), 흑룡강 (Heungnyonggang) (黑龍江)
• Lithuanian: Amuras
• Macedonian: Аму́р m (Amúr)
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ
  ᡠᠯᠠ (sahaliyan ula)
• Mongolian: Амар мөрөн (Amar mörön), Хар мөрөн (Xar mörön)
• Norwegian: Amur
• Persian: آمور (âmur)
• Polish: Amur (pl) m
• Portuguese: Amur m
• Romanian: Amur f
• Russian: Аму́р (ru) m (Amúr), Хэйлунцзя́н (ru) m (Xɛjlunczján)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Амур m

  Roman: Amur (sh) m

• Slovak: Amur m
• Slovene: Amur
• Spanish: Amur m
• Swedish: Amur
• Turkish: Amur
• Ukrainian: Аму́р m (Amúr)
• Vietnamese: sông Amur, Hắc Long Giang

Amurskaya Oblast

• Russian: Аму́рская о́бласть (ru) f (Amúrskaja óblastʹ)
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Heilongjiang — see Heilongjiang

See also

• Amur Darya or Amu Darya
• Heilongjiang

Anagrams

• 'umra, Mura, Umar, arum, maru, mura

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary)

Derived terms

• amurský

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Amur m

1. the Amur River

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Polish

Proper noun

Amur m

1. Amur (a river in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Amur

	singular
nominative	Amur
genitive	Amuru
dative	Amurowi
accusative	Amur
instrumental	Amurem
locative	Amurze
vocative	Amurze

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Amur m

1. Amur (a river in Asia, between the far east of Russia and China)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Amur c (genitive Amurs)

1. Amur (river)