Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a mainly agricultural Turkic people inhabiting the Xinjiang region in China.
- noun The Turkic language of the Uighurs.
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- proper noun Alternative form of
Uyghur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- noun the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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China says 140 died in Uighur rioting (smh. com.au)
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China says 140 died in Uighur rioting (smh. com.au)
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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"Petr Lom's disappointing On a Tightrope paints a portrait of a group of orphans in Uighur, part of China's largest Muslim minority, who are trying to uphold the great tradition of tightrope walking," writes Michael Lerman at indieWIRE.
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The Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas put it bluntly on the micro-blogging site, Twitter -- where thousands follow him -- when he asked why no one was paying attention to the Uighur "intifada," the Arabic word for uprising that is usually associated with Palestinians fighting back against Israeli occupation.
Mona Eltahawy: If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel 2009
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(I wonder how that technology has helped the Chinese government to block browser searches using the key-word Uighur this week.)
Amnesty International: Yahoo!, Click Refresh Button on Internet Censorship 2009
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The attackers were however arrested at about 8.00 am local time and were identified as Uighur separatists.
Terrorists Attack Chinese Town Killing 16, Days Before Beijing Olympics 2008
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China regularly dubs Uighur historians, poets and writers "intellectual terrorists" and sends them to jail.
Uighur Justice Nury A. Turkel 2008
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The alphabet created by Tatar-Tonga is now known as the Uighur/Uyghur Script, the Classical Mongol
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The alphabet created by Tatar-Tonga is now known as the Uighur/Uyghur Script, the Classical Mongol
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The alphabet created by Tatar-Tonga is now known as the Uighur/Uyghur Script, the Classical Mongol
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