uighur

Definition of Uighur in English :

1. uighur, uigur, uygur

a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas

2. uighur, uigur, uygur

the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China

3. uighur, uigur, uygur

the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Uighur

noun

1.

a member of a Turkic people, living mainly in W China and Uzbekistan, that ruled in Mongolia and Turkestan in the Middle Ages

2.

the Turkic language of this people

adjective

3.

of the Uighurs or their language or culture

n.

Variant of Uyghur.