Uighur

Uighur
also Uigur noun Etymology: Uighur Uighur Date: 1747 1. a member of a Turkic people powerful in Mongolia and eastern Turkestan between the 8th and 12th centuries A.D. who constitute a majority of the population of Chinese Turkestan 2. the Turkic language of the Uighurs • Uighur also Uigur adjective

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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