“like a houri, beautiful as a houri”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Language guide
Uyghur Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions
Uyghur names on this site are shown first in the Uyghur Arabic alphabet, written right to left, exactly as recorded in our sources, followed by the Latin romanization where a source gives one. Uyghur naming draws on native Turkic words (for example words for the moon, light or bravery) as well as a large stock of Arabic and Persian names and elements. Spellings in other scripts are never generated automatically.
ئۇيغۇرچە
Karluk branch of the Turkic language family
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
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- “like a houri, beautiful as a houri”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “like a houri, beautiful as a houri”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “like a houri, beautiful as a houri”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “like a houri, beautiful as a houri”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “free girl; beautiful as if fairy-born, fairy child”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “free girl; beautiful as if fairy-born, fairy child”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “free girl; beautiful as if fairy-born, fairy child”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “free girl; beautiful as if fairy-born, fairy child”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “free girl; beautiful as if fairy-born, fairy child”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “purity, modesty”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “God's pure person”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “good outcome; best, beautiful”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “good outcome; best, beautiful”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “girl whose beauty is like a pomegranate”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “lady with pomegranate-like beauty, beautiful lady”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “girl whose beauty is like a pomegranate”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “girl whose beauty is like a pomegranate”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “beautiful, pretty, well-mannered”From Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “beautiful, moon-faced”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “beautiful lady, beautiful princess”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who adds beauty to the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “beauty like a flower, flower-faced”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “girl whose beauty is like a pomegranate”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
How Uyghur names are written
The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is the official script in Xinjiang. It writes all vowels, including ې, ۆ, ۈ and ئ-initial forms, which makes it closer to pronunciation than many other Arabic-based scripts. Uyghur Latin (ULY) is common online and in Western countries, and Uyghur Cyrillic is still used in Central Asia. Latin forms on this site are labelled with the system they follow.
Where Uyghur names come from
A name used in Uyghur is not automatically Uyghur in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Uyghur names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic languages, together with Uzbek. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.
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References for this page
- Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Wikipedia contributors. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.