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‖ Uighur, n. and a.|ˈwiːgʊə(r)|
Also 8 Uigure, 9 Uigur, Ouigour.
[ad. East Turkish uighur, f. ui to follow, fit, agree + -gur adj. suffix.]
A. n.
1. A member of the eastern branch of the Turkish race, which was prominent in Central Asia from the 8th to the 12th century.
1785Archaeol. VII. 227 Perhaps it was the Uigures or Igureans, from whom the great founder of the Mongol monarchy first received letters and the art of writing. 1844Prichard Phys. Hist. Mankind IV. 311 The celebrated Turkish race of the Ouigours. 1874F. E. Burnett tr. Vambéry's Cent. Asia 132 The Uigurs have played a very remarkable part in the history of the civilisation of Central Asia. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 658/2 When we speak of Uigurs and Tatars, we mean tribes who style themselves Turks and really are such. 1966D. Wilson Quarter of Mankind vii. 89 Unlike the Tibetans, Mongols and Uighurs, these are relatively primitive people. 1969Listener 3 July 6/2 There are millions of people living in the border areas, who speak neither Russian nor Chinese. They're Khazaks, Uzbeks, Uighurs, Tartars, many of them still leading nomadic lives, herdsmen born to the saddle. 1977Times 4 July 5/4 The eight to ten million inhabitants of Sinkiang, the majority of whom are Uighurs and Kazakhs.
2. The language spoken by the Uigurs.
1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 406/1 The Uighur was originally written with fourteen, and afterwards with sixteen letters, which..there is reason to believe..have been invented by the Uighurs themselves. 1862Latham Compar. Philol. 102 Theoretically, the main differences between the Tshagatai and Uighur are considerable.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to, used by, the Uigurs.
1747Astley's Gen. Coll. Voy. IV. ii. iv. 457/2 He says, they are the same with the Wigûr, Oygûr, or Jugur Characters. 1844Prichard Phys. Hist. Mankind IV. 312 The Ouigour dialect..preserves the true characteristics and analogies of an oriental Tartarian idiom. Ibid. 313 He was the founder of the Ouigour empire. 1862Latham Compar. Philol. 100 The Uighur Turks were the first of their stock to use an alphabet. Ibid. 102 A Uighur alphabet makes a Uighur work. 1870Howorth in Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. (N.S.) II. 87 The remains of the Ouigour literature.
Hence Uiˈgurean, Uiˈgurian, Uiˈguric adjs.
1773Archaeol. II. 228 The Oigurian or Uigurean alphabet of 14 characters. 1844Prichard Phys. Hist. Mankind IV. 316 As the Ouigourian and Mongolian alphabets have the same origin and form. 1874F. E. Burnett tr. Vambéry's Cent. Asia 131 The Uigurian race of the Turks. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 662/1 But the oldest Turkish alphabet, the Uigurian, is a direct transformation of the Syriac. Ibid. XXIV. 2 The unassimilated Uiguric kilur-im answers to the Osmanli kilur-um. |