Amur
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of amur.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ämo͝orʹ, ŭmo͞orʹ
Proper noun
Amur
- The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.
- 1830, Amelia Shipley Heber, editor, The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D.[1], volume 1, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 568:
- If, then, the southern districts of European Russia be exposed to a winter more severe than those of France or Germany, they may boast in their turn a more genial climate than the banks of the Ural and the Amur; while all are subject to a dispensation of nature which extends too far, and acts too uniformly, to be ascribed to any local or temporary causes.
- 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports[2], number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:
- Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.
- 1975 June 22, L. Chen, “Defiant intellectual disobedience”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XVI, number 24, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- Just a few days before he was to be sent to the “Great Northern Wilderness” near the Amur, an 18-year-old middle school graduate named Liu Fu-yuan went up to the third floor of the “Hundred Goods Building” (department store) at Peiping’s Wanfunching and asked that a made-in-Red-China watch be brought out of the glass case.
- 2020 August 15, Anton Troianovski, “'The Fish Rots From the Head': How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-15[5]:
- Along the Amur, one of Asia’s great waterways, Russians feel cheated, lied to and ignored. The wild salmon fishery that they once took for granted is gone, they say, because Moscow granted large concessions to enterprises that strung enormous nets across the river’s mouth.
People’s anger over their depleted fish stock is so widespread that it has been a driving force behind the anti-Kremlin protests that have been shaking the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur, since early July.
- 2021 March, “Setting Rivers Free”, in National Geographic[6], pages 30–31:
- Bordered by small farming towns without large dams, the Amur—the least obstructed of these 10 rivers—is an example of the effects of minimal human influence.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Amur.
- An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese, the river) Heilongjiang
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Amur adonis (Adonis amurensis)
- Amur lemming (Lemmus amurensis)
- Amur Bay
- Amur beech marten (Martes zibellina)
- Amur bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus)
- Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
- black Amur bream (Megalobrama terminalis)
- white Amur bream (Parabramis pekinensis)
- Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus)
- Amur cobra lily (Arisaema amurense)
- Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense)
- Amur falcon (Falco amurensis)
- Amur goral (Naemorhedus caudatus)
- Amur grape (Vitis amurensis)
- Amur gudgeon, Amur whitefin gudgeon (Romanogobio tenuicorpus)
- Amur hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis)
- Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis)
- Amur linden, Amur lime (Tilia amurensis)
- Amur maple (Acer ginnala)
- Amur meadow steppe
- Amur minnow (Rhynchocypris lagowskii)
- Amur oak (Phellodendron amurense)
- Amur pink (Dianthus amurensis)
- Amur River clam (Corbula amurensis)
- Amur sculpin (Mesocottus haitej)
- Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii)
- Amur snake (Elaphe schrenckii)
- Amur three-lips (Opsariichthys uncirostris, Opsariichthys bidens)
- Amur tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
- Amur viper (Gloydius saxatilis)
- Amur virus
- Amur wagtail (Motacilla alba)
- Amurian
- black amur
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- white amur, amur (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Translations
the river between the Far East Russia and China
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Amurskaya Oblast
Heilongjiang — see Heilongjiang
See also
Further reading
- “Amur, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Amur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Amur”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 121-122
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Amur m inan (related adjective amurský)
Declension
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Amur
- Amur (Asian river)
Declension
Inflection of Amur (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Amur | — | |
genitive | Amurin | — | |
partitive | Amuria | — | |
illative | Amuriin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Amur | — | |
accusative | nom. | Amur | — |
gen. | Amurin | ||
genitive | Amurin | — | |
partitive | Amuria | — | |
inessive | Amurissa | — | |
elative | Amurista | — | |
illative | Amuriin | — | |
adessive | Amurilla | — | |
ablative | Amurilta | — | |
allative | Amurille | — | |
essive | Amurina | — | |
translative | Amuriksi | — | |
abessive | Amuritta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
compounds
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
der Amur m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Amur or des Amurs)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Amur m inan
Declension
Declension of Amur
Further reading
- Amur in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Proper noun
Amur m
Spanish
Proper noun
Amur m
Swedish
Proper noun
Amur c (genitive Amurs)
Turkish
Etymology
Proper noun
Amur
- Amur (an oblast of Russia; capital: Blagoveshchensk).
- Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)
Declension
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Russian
- English terms derived from Russian
- English terms derived from Solon
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Rivers in Russia
- en:Rivers in China
- en:Places in Russia
- en:Places in China
- English terms with quotations
- en:Amur Oblast
- en:Oblasts of Russia
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- cs:Rivers in Russia
- cs:Rivers in China
- cs:Places in Russia
- cs:Places in China
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Finnish terms derived from Russian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑmur
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑmur/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Rivers in Russia
- de:Rivers in China
- de:Places in Russia
- de:Places in China
- Polish terms borrowed from Russian
- Polish terms derived from Russian
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/amur
- Rhymes:Polish/amur/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Rivers in Russia
- pl:Rivers in China
- pl:Places in Russia
- pl:Places in China
- Polish singularia tantum
- Polish exonyms
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Rivers in Russia
- pt:Rivers in China
- pt:Places in Russia
- pt:Places in China
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Rivers
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Rivers in Russia
- sv:Rivers in China
- sv:Places in Russia
- sv:Places in China
- Turkish terms borrowed from Russian
- Turkish terms derived from Russian
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish proper nouns
- tr:Amur Oblast
- tr:Oblasts of Russia
- tr:Places in Russia
- tr:Rivers in Russia
- tr:Rivers in China
- tr:Places in China