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Amur en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• ämo͝orʹ
• ä-mo͝orʹ
• ŭmo͞orʹ

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of amur.

Meanings

1. The world's ninth-longest river, forming part of the border between the Far East of Russia and Manchuria in 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.
   • 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. 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:
   • 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. 1830, Amelia Shipley Heber, editor, The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D., volume 1, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 568:
   • 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. 2020 August 15, Anton Troianovski, “'The Fish Rots From the Head': How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2020:
   • 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. 2021 March, “Setting Rivers Free”, in National Geographic, pages 30–31:
   • 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. 1975 June 22, L. Chen, “Defiant intellectual disobedience”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 24, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
2. An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.
   • The unmanned probe was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket at 23:10 GMT from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region. It is expected to reach lunar orbit in 4-5 days. 2023 August 11, “Russia launches Luna-25 mission to be 1st to reach moon’s South Pole”, in EFE, sourced from Moscow, (EFE), archived from the original on 23 Sep 2023:

Deriveds

Amur virus · Amur falcon · Amur gudgeon · Amur meadow steppe · white amur · Amur grape · Amur River clam · Amur whitefin gudgeon · Komsomolsk-on-Amur · Amur linden · Amur adonis · Amur snake · Amur three-lips · Amur cobra lily · Amur beech marten · Amurian · Amur lime · Amur tiger · Amur oak · Amur lemming · Amur pike · Amur bream · amur · Amur Bay · Amur sculpin · Amur maple · black amur · white Amur bream · black Amur bream · Amur carp · Amur viper · Amur wagtail · Amur sleeper · Amur goral · Amur pink · Amur bitterling · Amur minnow · Amur leopard · Amur hedgehog · Amur cork tree

Relateds

Amur Darya · Amu Darya · Heilongjiang

Synonyms

Heilongjiang (from Mandarin Chinese, the river)

Translations (57)

ru Аму́рская о́бласть (Amurskaya Oblast) · ja アムール州 (Amurskaya Oblast) · fr Amour (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · hi आमुर (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ro Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · de Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · cmn 阿穆爾州 /阿穆尔州 (Amurskaya Oblast) · mn Хар мөрөн (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ka ამური (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · eo Amuro (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · sk Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · el Αμούρ (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ru Аму́р (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · tr Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · sh Амур (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · gld Дай Маӈгу (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · mk Аму́р (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ja アムール川 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · da Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · cmn 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · vi sông Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ko 흑룡강 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · he אמור (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · sh Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · nl Amoer (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · yue 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · vi Hắc Long Giang (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · sv Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · pt Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ru Хэйлунцзя́н (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · cs Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · hy Ամուր (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ja 黒竜江 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · et Amuur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · bg Аму́р (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · sl Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · bua Амар мүрэн (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · mn Амар мөрөн (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · gl Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · pl Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ko 아무르강 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · fa آمور (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · kk Амур (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · mnc ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · no Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · lt Amuras (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · uk Аму́р (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · fi Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · dta Хар мур (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · it Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · es Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · cmn 阿穆爾河 /阿穆尔河 (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · be Аму́р (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ar آمُور (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · bua Хара Мүрэн (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · hu Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China) · ca Amur (the river between the Far East Russia and China)