Proper Name guide

Ürümqi

name · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • /ʊˈrʊmt͡ʃi/
  • /uːˈɹuːmt͡ʃi/
  • Canada: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

name

Meaning 1

A prefecture-level city, the capital of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A county of Ürümqi city, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi) via its official SASM/GNC/SRC romanization. See there for more.

Across languages

Translations

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أُورُومْتْشِي (ʔūrūmtšī) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Armenian: Ուրումչի (Urumčʻi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Azerbaijani: Urumçi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Belarusian: Урумчы́ (Urumčý) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Bengali: উরুমচী (urumci) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Buryat: Үрэмшэ (Üremše) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Chagatai: اُورُمْجِی (ūrumjī) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Cherokee: ᎤᎷᎻᎩ (ulumigi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Chinese Cantonese: 烏魯木齊 /乌鲁木齐 (wu1 lou5 muk6 cai4) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烏魯木齊 /乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Czech: Urumči — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Czech: Úrůmdží — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Finnish: Ürümqi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Georgian: ურუმჩი (urumči) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Greek: Ουρούμτσι (Ouroúmtsi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Hindi: उरुमची (urumcī) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Hungarian: Ürümcsi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Japanese: 烏魯木斉 (Urumuchi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Kalmyk: Үрмч (Ürmç) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Kazakh: Үрімжі (Ürımjı) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Korean: 우루무치 (Urumuchi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Kyrgyz: Үрүмчү (Ürümcü) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Macedonian: Урумчи (Urumči) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Manchu: ᡠᡵᡠᠮᠴᡳ (urumci) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Mongolian: Урумчи (Urumči) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Mongolian: Өрөмч (Örömč) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Mongolian: Үрэмч (Üremč) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Mongolian: Үрүмчи (Ürümči) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Mongolian: ᠦᠷᠦᠮᠴᠢ (ürümči) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Polish: Urumczi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Portuguese: Urumqi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Portuguese: Urumchi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Russian: Урумчи́ (Urumčí) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Russian: Улумуци́ (Ulumucí) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Serbo-Croatian: Урумћи — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Serbo-Croatian: Urumći — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Slovak: Urumči — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Tibetan: ཨུ་རུམ་ཆི (u rum chi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Turkish: Urumçi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Ukrainian: Урумчі́ (Urumčí) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Uyghur: ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Uzbek: Urumchi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Vietnamese: Ürümqi — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Vietnamese: Ô Lỗ Mộc Tề — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Written Oirat: ᡇᠷᡇᡏᡔᡅ (urumci) — Capital of Xinjiang
  • Zhuang: Vuhlujmuzciz — Capital of Xinjiang