Udmurt

[ ood-moort; Russian ood-moort ]

noun

, plural Ud·murts, (especially collectively) Ud·murt

1. a member of a Uralic people living in the Udmurt Autonomous Republic and adjacent areas of the Kama River basin.
2. the Permic language of the Udmurt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Udmurt¹

< Russian udmúrt < Udmurt: a self-designation ( ud- ( Votyak ) + murt man, human being)

Example Sentences

The attack occurred at School No. 88 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurt Republic, a region in central Russia west of the Ural Mountains.

From Washington Post

After that, the group won minor fame performing songs by the Beatles, Deep Purple and the Eagles in Udmurt as a novelty act.

From New York Times

They are almost certainly the first Eurovision contestants to perform part of their song in the obscure Udmurt language, which is distantly related to Finnish.

From Seattle Times

The refrain of the Buranovo Grannies "Party for Everybody" is in English, but the remainder of the song is in Udmurt, a distant relation of Finnish spoken by some 325,000 people.

From Seattle Times

From that congress I have the following languages translated: Karelian, Udmurt, Estonian, Komi and Nenets.

From Project Gutenberg