UIGHUR (uigurs)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: uigurs   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uighur mean? 

• UIGHUR (noun)
  The noun UIGHUR has 3 senses:

1. a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas

2. the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China

3. the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

  Familiarity information: UIGHUR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UIGHUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur

Hypernyms ("Uighur" is a kind of...):

Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)

Holonyms ("Uighur" is a member of...):

Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur

Hypernyms ("Uighur" is a kind of...):

Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar (a subfamily of Altaic languages)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Uighur; Uigur; Uygur

Hypernyms ("Uighur" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)