Uyghur
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 surveillance and the placement of 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang."
- 1 Of, from, or pertaining to the Uyghur people or the Uyghur language. not-comparable
"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."
- 1 The language of the Uyghur people.
Example
More examples"I'm the only one who doesn't know Uyghur."
Etymology
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
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