pur

pur (plural purs)

1. Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).
   • 1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis, page 294:

     The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

pur (third-person singular simple present purs, present participle purring, simple past and past participle purred)

1. Dated form of purr
   • a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River

     And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.

   • 1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor, page 182:

     It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.

• PRU, RUP, U-RP, urp, Pru

• pour, pür
• Puur

From Middle High German būre, gibūre, from Old High German gibūro, from būr (“peasant”). Cognate with German Bauer, Dutch buur, English bower.

pur m

1. (Gressoney, Carcoforo) farmer

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Inherited from Old Catalan pur, from Latin pūrus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpur]
• Rhymes: -uɾ

pur (feminine pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)

1. pure
2. not contaminated
3. innocent
4. authentic, genuine

• impur

• purament
• puresa
• puritat

• “pur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin pūrus (“pure”)

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /pyːr/
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): /piːr/

pur

1. pure, absolute

pur (triggers soft mutation)

1. very

From Arabic بُور (būr).

pur

1. fallow, uncultivated

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 168

• puar

From Latin pāret, third person singular present active indicative of pareō.

pur

1. to appear

Inherited from Middle French pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

• IPA^(key): /pyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

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• Homophones: purs, pure, pures, purent

pur (feminine pure, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)

1. pure (unspoilt)
2. pure (undiluted)

• “pur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Late Middle High German pūr (14th c.), from Latin pūrus.

• IPA^(key): /puːr/, [pu(ː)ɐ̯]
• Rhymes: -uːɐ̯

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pur (strong nominative masculine singular purer, comparative purer, superlative am pursten)

1. pure, mere, sheer (nothing other than)

   Synonyms: rein, blank, bloß, schier

   Die pure Verzweiflung hat ihn dazu getrieben.

   It was pure despair that drove him into it.

   Köstliche Häppchen und erstklassiger Wein sorgten für Genuss pur.

   Delicious snacks and first-class wine ensured pure, unadulterated pleasure.

2. pure (not mixed with another ingredient)

   Synonyms: rein, unverdünnt, unvermischt

   Er trinkt puren Wodka.

   He drinks pure vodka.

   Er trinkt Wodka pur.

   He drinks vodka straight.

3. (rare) pure (not polluted or sullied)

   Synonyms: rein, sauber, schadstofffrei, unverdorben

• As a more flexible equivalent for English pure use the adjective rein, especially in moral and other figurative senses.
• Due to the semantic constraints, the compared forms, especially the comparative purer, are infrequent.
• Pur may at times be postpositioned, especially when the noun has no article or determiner with it. This use has been generalised from the context of food and drink, where it is also found with some other adjectives (e.g. Kaffee schwarz for schwarzer Kaffee).

• “pur” in Duden online
• “pur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

pur (comparative plus pur, superlative le plus pur)

1. pure

• IPA^(key): /ˈpur/
• Rhymes: -ur
• Hyphenation: pùr

pur (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of pure

pur (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of pure

From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

pur m

1. (Jersey) pure

From Latin pūrus.

pur m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pure)

1. pure

• French: pur
  • → Romanian: pur
• Norman: pur
• → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre
  • Scots: puir, pure
  • English: pure
  • → Cornish: pur

See por

pur

1. Alternative form of por

• IPA^(key): /pur/

Borrowed from Latin pūrus, French pur.

pur m or n (feminine singular pură, masculine plural puri, feminine and neuter plural pure)

1. pure, clean, clear
2. mere

• clar, curat, fin, cast

Variant of por. Probably from Latin porrum.

pur m (plural puri)

1. sand leek (Allium rotundum)
2. serpent's garlic (Allium victorialis)

From Latin pūrus.

• pür (Puter, Vallader)

pur m (feminine singular pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural puras) (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran)

1. pure

• (Sutsilvan) spir

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.

pur m (plural purs) (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter)

1. peasant, farmer
2. (chess) pawn

• pour (Surmiran)
• paur (Vallader, peasant, farmer)

Chess pieces in Romansch · figuras da schah (layout · text)
retg	dama	tur	currider	chaval	pur

Borrowed from Latin pūrus.

• Rhymes: -ʉːr

pur (not comparable)

1. (somewhat dated) pure

   pur glädje

   pure joy

• pur förvåning
• pur-
• purpur

• pur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)

From Middle Welsh pur, from Proto-Brythonic *pʉr, from Latin pūrus.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /pɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /piːr/
• Rhymes: -ɨːr

pur (feminine singular pur, plural purion, equative pured, comparative purach, superlative puraf)

1. pure, unadulterated

   Synonym: têr

2. undefiled, chaste

pur

1. somewhat, fairly

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pur”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies