烏魯木齊

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from , from.

Etymology 2
Unclear. Here are a few possibilities:
 * 烏魯木齊: Since the Min Nan area and Ürümqi are very far apart, if someone claims to be from or went to Ürümqi, they are speaking nonsense.
 * 烏漉木製: There is a type of wood called 烏漉木, which is of very bad quality. If furniture is made from it, it is made carelessly.
 * 烏櫓莫濟: From +  +  +, literally "to not have a scull to cross a river", used figuratively to mean "to not have the main thing to do the job; to be careless".

Idiom

 * 1)  to be careless; to be in a mess; to talk nonsense