Uyghur

/ˈwiːɡʊə/US/ˈwiˌɡʊɹ/

Uyghur noun: a member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.

Noun

Uyghur (plural Uyghurs or Uyghur)

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

Proper noun

Uyghur

The language of the Uyghur people.

Adjective

Uyghur (not comparable)

Of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language.
- Hotan is located in southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is an oasis town in the Tarim Basin, north of the Kunlun Mountains and south of the Taklamakan Desert. Hotan Prefecture is a multinational area: 96 percent Uyghur and 3 percent Han.2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “A discovery of folk gems in Hotan”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →ISSN, →OCLC, Travel China, page 21, column 3
- The purpose of this Act is to direct United States resources to address human rights violations and abuses, including gross violations of human rights, by the Government of the People’s Republic of China through the mass surveillance and internment of over 1,000,000 Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz...2020, “S. 3744: Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020”, in GovTrack

Uyghur meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

Uyghur in Hindi

member of ethnic group: उइग़ुर uiġur
language: उइग़ुर uiġur, उइग़ुर भाषा uiġur bhāṣā

Uyghur in Urdu

Uyghur: اویغور ūiġūr

Uyghur in Bengali

member of ethnic group: উইঘুর uighur
language: উইঘুর uighur
of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language: উইঘুর uighur

Uyghur in Arabic

member of ethnic group: أُويْغُورِيّ ʔūyḡūriyy, أُويْغُورِيَّة ʔūyḡūriyya
language: اللُّغَة الْأُويْغُورِيَّة al-luḡa l-ʔūyḡūriyya, أُويْغُورِيّ ʔūyḡūriyy

More languagesFewer languages

Uyghur in Persian: اویغور uyġur, زبان اویغوری zabân-e uyġuri, اویغوری uyġuri
Uyghur in Thai: อุยกูร์
Uyghur in Vietnamese: Duy Ngô Nhĩ, tiếng Duy Ngô Nhĩ

Forms of Uyghur

plural	Uyghurs
plural	Uyghur
alternative form	Uygur
alternative form	Uigur
alternative form	Uighur
alternative form (obsolete)	Ouigour
alternative form (obsolete)	Uigour

Origin of Uyghur

From Uyghur ئۇيغۇر (uyghur). Introduced as part of national delimitation in the Soviet Union, reviving the name used by the Uyghur Khaganate. See Uyghurs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Words formed from Uyghur

Words that rhyme with Uyghur

Questions about Uyghur

What does Uyghur mean?: Uyghur means a member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.
What is Uyghur in Hindi?: Uyghur in Hindi is उइग़ुर (uiġur), उइग़ुर भाषा (uiġur bhāṣā). See Uyghur meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Uyghur?: Uyghur can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Uyghur?: Uyghur is pronounced /ˈwiːɡʊə/ (UK).
What is the plural of Uyghur?: The plural of Uyghur is Uyghurs.

Words near Uyghur in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: Uyghur (page history and authors); اویغور (Urdu) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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