Uygur

See also: uygur, uyğur, and uýgur

English

Noun

Uygur (plural Uygurs or Uygur)

1. Alternative spelling of Uyghur

Proper noun

Uygur

1. Alternative spelling of Uyghur
   • 2005, Mary Kay Zuravleff, The Bowl is Already Broken‎^[1] (Fiction), Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 285:

     He recalled that the big hill which served as their backdrop—the one that was always there despite the changing dunes—was known as Mazhatage, which was the Uygur word for “tomb.”

Anagrams

• Ryugu, Yugur

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اویغور (Uygur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /új.ɡuɾ/, [új.ɡuɾ̞̊]
• Hyphenation: Uy‧gur

Proper noun

Uygur

1. Uyghur (ethnic group)
2. a male given name

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• Uygurca
• Uyguristan