Amur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ämo͝orʹ
ŭmo͞orʹ
ä-mo͝orʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Аму́р (Amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of amur.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1830, Amelia Shipley Heber, editor, The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D., volume 1, London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 568:
text: 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.
ref: 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:
text: 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.
ref: 1975 June 22, L. Chen, “Defiant intellectual disobedience”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 24, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2021 March, “Setting Rivers Free”, in National Geographic, pages 30–31:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese, the river
word: Heilongjiang
Derived terms: taxonomic: Adonis amurensis
word: Amur adonis
taxonomic: Lemmus amurensis
word: Amur lemming
word: Amur Bay
taxonomic: Martes zibellina
word: Amur beech marten
taxonomic: Rhodeus sericeus
word: Amur bitterling
alt: Parabramis pekinensis
word: Amur bream
taxonomic: Megalobrama terminalis
word: black Amur bream
alt: Parabramis pekinensis
word: white Amur bream
taxonomic: Cyprinus rubrofuscus
word: Amur carp
taxonomic: Arisaema amurense
word: Amur cobra lily
taxonomic: Phellodendron amurense
word: Amur cork tree
taxonomic: Falco amurensis
word: Amur falcon
taxonomic: Naemorhedus caudatus
word: Amur goral
taxonomic: Vitis amurensis
word: Amur grape
word: Amur gudgeon
taxonomic: Romanogobio tenuicorpus
word: Amur whitefin gudgeon
taxonomic: Erinaceus amurensis
word: Amur hedgehog
taxonomic: Panthera pardus orientalis
word: Amur leopard
word: Amur linden
taxonomic: Tilia amurensis
word: Amur lime
taxonomic: Acer ginnala
word: Amur maple
word: Amur meadow steppe
alt: Rhynchocypris lagowskii
word: Amur minnow
taxonomic: Phellodendron amurense
word: Amur oak
taxonomic: Dianthus amurensis
word: Amur pink
taxonomic: Corbula amurensis
word: Amur River clam
alt: Mesocottus haitej
word: Amur sculpin
taxonomic: Perccottus glenii
word: Amur sleeper
taxonomic: Elaphe schrenckii
word: Amur snake
taxonomic: Opsariichthys bidens
word: Amur three-lips
taxonomic: Panthera tigris tigris
word: Amur tiger
taxonomic: Gloydius saxatilis
word: Amur viper
word: Amur virus
taxonomic: Motacilla alba
word: Amur wagtail
word: Amurian
word: black amur
word: Komsomolsk-on-Amur
word: white amur
taxonomic: Ctenopharyngodon idella
word: amur
taxonomic: Esox reichertii
word: Amur pike
Related terms: Amur Darya
Amu Darya
Heilongjiang