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UIGUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Uigur mean?
• UIGUR (noun)
The noun UIGUR 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: UIGUR used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("Uigur" is a kind of...):
Turki (any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language)
Holonyms ("Uigur" 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:
Hypernyms ("Uigur" 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:
Hypernyms ("Uigur" is a kind of...):
script (a particular orthography or writing system)
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