Uigur

noun

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

• Syn: ↑Uighur, ↑Uygur

• Hypernyms: ↑Turki

• Member Holonyms: ↑Xinjiang, ↑Sinkiang, ↑Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region

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

• Syn: ↑Uighur, ↑Uygur

• Hypernyms: ↑Turki, ↑Turkic, ↑Turko-Tatar, ↑Turkic language

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

• Syn: ↑Uighur, ↑Uygur

• Hypernyms: ↑script

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I. noun

see uighur I

II. adjective

see uighur II

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—Uigurian, Uighurian /wee goor"ee euhn/, Uiguric, Uighuric, adj.

/wee"goor/, n.

1. a member of a Turkish people dominant in Mongolia and eastern Turkestan from the 8th to 12th centuries A.D., and now living mainly in western China.

2. the Turkic language of the Uigurs.

adj.

3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Uigurs.

Also, Uighur.