Amur

See also: amur and amûr

English

Amur watershed

Etymology

From Russian Аму́р (Amúr).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ämo͝orʹ, ŭmo͞orʹ

Proper noun

Amur

  1. The world's ninth-longest river, forming 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., volume 1, London: John Murray, OCLC 976710749, OL 7195594M, 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, number 52h, OCLC 1001830978, 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, volume XVI, number 24, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, 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.
    • 2021 March, “Setting Rivers Free”, in National Geographic, 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.
  2. An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.

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Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈamur]
  • (file)

Proper noun

Amur m inan

  1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Declension

Derived terms

  • amurský

Finnish

Etymology

From Russian Аму́р (Amúr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmur/, [ˈɑmur]
  • Rhymes: -ɑmur
  • Syllabification(key): A‧mur

Proper noun

Amur

  1. Amur (Asian river)

Declension

Inflection of Amur (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
instructive
abessive Amuritta
comitative
Possessive forms of Amur (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Amurini Amurimme
2nd person Amurisi Amurinne
3rd person Amurinsa

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German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

der Amur m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Amur or des Amurs)

  1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.mur/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -amur
  • Syllabification: A‧mur

Proper noun

Amur m inan

  1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Declension

Further reading

  • Amur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Amur in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Amur m

  1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Swedish

Proper noun

Amur c (genitive Amurs)

  1. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Turkish

Etymology

From Russian Аму́р (Amúr).

Proper noun

Amur

  1. Amur (an oblast of Russia; capital: Blagoveshchensk).
  2. Amur (long river forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China)

Declension

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