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Uigour

Uigour is the obsolete form of Uyghur.

Meaning of Uyghur

Noun

Uyghur (plural Uyghurs or Uyghur)

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

See all 3 meanings of Uyghur

Forms of Uigour

pluralUigours

Questions about Uigour

What is Uigour the obsolete form of?
Uigour is the obsolete form of Uyghur.

Words near Uigour in the dictionary

  1. Uighuric
  2. Uighuristan
  3. Uighurs
  4. Uighurstan
  5. uigite
  6. Uigour
  7. Uigours
  8. Uigur
  9. Uigurian
  10. Uiguric
  11. UIID

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Uigour (page history and authors); Uyghur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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