Uyghur

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Alternative forms

• Uygur (official in China)
• Uigur, Uighur
• Ouigour, Uigour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Uyghur ئۇيغۇر (uyghur).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːɡɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːɡ(ʊ)ə/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ʊə, (UK) -iːɡə

Noun

Uyghur (plural Uyghurs or Uyghur)

1. A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.
   • 2023 March 23, Michael Martina, “U.S. House panel on China to highlight abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing”, in Jonathan Oatis, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-23‎^[2]:

     A new U.S. congressional committee on China will hold its second hearing on Thursday, seeking to highlight what Washington says is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region.
     Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses, including forced labor, mass surveillance and the placement of 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang.

Related terms

• Uyghuristan

Translations

member of ethnic group

• Arabic: أُويْغُورِيّ m (ʔūyḡūriyy), أُويْغُورِيَّة f (ʔūyḡūriyya)
• Armenian: ույղուր (uyġur)
• Azerbaijani: uyğur
• Belarusian: уйгу́р m (ujhúr), уйгу́рка f (ujhúrka)
• Bengali: উইঘুর (uighur)
• Catalan: uigur (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維吾爾／维吾尔 (zh) (Wéiwú'ěr), 維吾爾人／维吾尔人 (zh) (Wéiwú'ěrrén), 維吾爾族／维吾尔族 (zh) (Wéiwú'ěrzú)

• Czech: Ujgur m
• Danish: uigur c
• Dutch: Oeigoer m
• Esperanto: ujguro
• Estonian: uiguur
• Finnish: uiguuri (fi)
• French: ouïghour (fr) m
• German: Uigure (de) m, Uigurin (de) f
• Hebrew: אויגורי m (uygúri), אויגורית f (uygúrit)
• Hindi: उइग़ुर m (uiġur)
• Hungarian: ujgur (hu)
• Italian: uiguro (it) m
• Japanese: ウイグル (uiguru)
• Kabardian: уйгур (wujgʷur)
• Kazakh: ұйғыр (ūiğyr)
• Korean: 위구르 (wigureu)
• Kyrgyz: уйгур (ky) (uygur)
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᡳᠰᡝ (hoise)
• Mongolian: уйгур (ujgur)
• Persian: اویغور (fa) (uyğur)
• Polish: Ujgur (pl) m, Ujgurka (pl) f
• Portuguese: uigur m or f
• Russian: уйгу́р (ru) m (ujgúr), уйгу́рка (ru) f (ujgúrka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ујгур m

  Roman: Ujgur m

• Spanish: uigur (es) m or f
• Swedish: uigur (sv) c
• Tajik: уйғур (uyġur)
• Tatar: уйгыр (uygır)
• Thai: อุยกูร์
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: Uygur (tr)
• Ukrainian: уйгу́р m (ujhúr), уйгу́рка f (ujhúrka)
• Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر (ug) (uyghur)

  Cyrillic: уйғур (uyghur)

• Uzbek: uygʻur (uz)
• Vietnamese: Duy Ngô Nhĩ
• Xibe: please add this translation if you can

Proper noun

Uyghur

1. The language of the Uyghur people.

Translations

language

• Arabic: اللُّغَة الْأُويْغُورِيَّة f (al-luḡa l-ʔūyḡūriyya), أُويْغُورِيّ f (ʔūyḡūriyy)
• Armenian: ույղուրերեն (hy) (uyġureren)
• Azerbaijani: uyğur dili
• Bengali: উইঘুর (uighur)
• Breton: ouigoureg (br) m
• Catalan: uigur (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維吾爾語／维吾尔语 (zh) (Wéiwú'ěryǔ), 維語／维语 (zh) (Wéiyǔ) (short)

• Czech: ujgurština
• Danish: uigursk
• Dutch: Oeigoers (nl) n
• Esperanto: ujgura lingvo
• Estonian: uiguuri keel
• Faroese: uigurskt n
• Finnish: uiguuri (fi)
• French: ouïghour (fr), ouïgour (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Uigurisch (de) n
• Hindi: उइग़ुर m (uiġur), उइग़ुर भाषा f (uiġur bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: ujgur (hu)
• Irish: Uigiúiris f
• Italian: uiguro (it) m
• Japanese: ウイグル語 (ja) (ウイグルご, uigurugo)
• Kabardian: уйгурыбзэ (wujgʷurəbzɛ)
• Kazakh: ұйғыр тілі (ūiğyr tılı)
• Korean: 위구르어 (ko) (wigureueo)
• Kyrgyz: уйгурча (ky) (uygurca), уйгур тили (uygur tili)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: ойгуур (ojguur), ойгуур хэл (ojguur xel)
• Navajo: Wíígow bizaad
• Occitan: oigor m
• Persian: زبان اویغوری (zabân-e uyğuri)
• Polish: język ujgurski m
• Portuguese: uigur m
• Russian: уйгу́рский язы́к m (ujgúrskij jazýk), уйгу́рский (ru) m (ujgúrskij)
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: uiguriska (sv) c
• Tibetan: ཡུལ་གོར་སྐད (yul gor skad)
• Turkish: Uygurca (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرچە (ug) (uyghurche), ئۇيغۇر تىلى (uyghur tili)

  Cyrillic: уйғурчә (uyghurche)

• Uzbek: uygʻur tili
• Vietnamese: tiếng Duy Ngô Nhĩ
• West Frisian: Oeigoersk
• Xibe: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

Uyghur (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language.
   • 2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “A discovery of folk gems in Hotan”, in Beijing Today‎^[3], number 543, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 21, column 3:

     Hotan is located in southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is an oasis town in the Tarim Basin, north of the Kunlun Mountains and south of the Taklamakan Desert. Hotan Prefecture is a multinational area: 96 percent Uyghur and 3 percent Han.

   • 2020, “S. 3744: Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020”, in GovTrack‎^[4]:

     The purpose of this Act is to direct United States resources to address human rights violations and abuses, including gross violations of human rights, by the Government of the People’s Republic of China through the mass surveillance and internment of over 1,000,000 Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language

• Azerbaijani: uyğur
• Belarusian: уйгу́рскі (ujhúrski)
• Bengali: উইঘুর (uighur)
• Bulgarian: уйгу́рски (ujgúrski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維吾爾／维吾尔 (zh) (Wéiwú'ěr)

• Dutch: Oeigoers (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ujgura
• Estonian: uiguuri
• Hungarian: ujgur (hu)
• Japanese: ウイグル (uiguru)
• Kazakh: ұйғыр (ūiğyr)
• Korean: 위구르 (wigureu)
• Kyrgyz: уйгур (ky) (uygur)
• Macedonian: ујгурски (ujgurski)
• Mongolian: уйгур (ujgur)
• Persian: اویغوری (uyğuri)
• Polish: ujgurski (pl)
• Russian: уйгу́рский (ru) (ujgúrskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ујгурски

  Roman: Ujgurski

• Swedish: uigurisk (sv)
• Tajik: уйғурӣ (uyġurī)
• Tatar: уйгыр (uygır)
• Turkish: Uygur (tr)
• Ukrainian: уйгу́рський (ujhúrsʹkyj)
• Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر (ug) (uyghur)
• Uzbek: uygʻur (uz)
• Vietnamese: Duy Ngô Nhĩ

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Uyghur terms
• ISO 639-1 code ug, ISO 639-3 code uig (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Uyghur, uig ⁠
• “Uyghur”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Uyghur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Uyghur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Uyghur” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Uyghur

Noun

Uyghur

1. Latin (ULY) transcription of ئۇيغۇر (uyghur)