Urmi
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Urmi may refer to:
- UrumeeUrumeeThe urumee is a double-headed hourglass-shaped drum from the state of Tamil Nadu, South India. Two skin heads are attached to a single hallow, often intricately carved wooden shell. The preferred wood is jackwood, although other wood may be used...
, a CarnaticCarnatic musicCarnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...
"talking" drum from South India - The Urmi RiverUrmi RiverThe Urmi River is a river in Khabarovsk Krai of Russia. It is 458 km long, and drains the area of 15,000 km². There are some 1,040 lakes in the Urmi basin; their total surface area is more than 32 km²....
in Khabarovsk KraiKhabarovsk KraiKhabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...
, Russia - Urmi, EstoniaUrmi, EstoniaUrmi is a village in Palupera Parish, Valga County in southeastern Estonia. It's located about northwest of the town of Otepää and about south of the town of Elva. Urmi has a population of 60 ....
, village in Palupera Parish, Valga County, Estonia - The UrmiaUrmia- Demographics :According to official census of 2006, the population of Urmia is about 871,204.- Language :The population of Urmia is mainly Azerbaijani people, with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities...
city or province in IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian Azerbaijan. - Lake UrmiaLake UrmiaLake Urmia , ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran, near Iran's border with Turkey. The lake is between the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea...
Lake in IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian Azerbaijan. - Urmi is a sanskrit word which means wave in English. The plural (or waves) would be "Urmimala"