ur

ur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Urdu.

ur

1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

ur

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of your.

ur

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of you're (you are).

   Coordinate terms: u, r

• Ru.

• urë

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). Compare Latin ūrō.

ur

1. ember

• prush

ur

1. rain

From Common Turkic *ur. Cognate with Turkish ur, etc.

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

1. (pathology, oncology) neoplasm, tumour

   Synonym: şiş

 

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ur

Wikipedia ^eu

 

• IPA^(key): /uɾ/ [uɾ]
• Rhymes: -uɾ

Unknown.^[1] Some claim from Proto-Basque *(h)ur; possibly a truly prehistoric word from a substrate.

• hur (Souletin)

ur inan

1. water
2. juice

This is one of a few words with an underlying final flap /uɾ/, so with the article it has the form ura (/u.ɾa/), contrasting with hur (“hazelnut”) (/ur/).

ur inan

1. Nonstandard spelling of hur (“hazelnut”).

• José Ignacio Hualde, Jon Ortiz de Urbina, A Grammar of Basque (2003, →ISBN

• “ur”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “ur”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• ure

From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

• IPA^(key): /uɐ̯/, /uːɐ̯/
• Homophone: Uhr

ur (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)

1. very, quite, really, total, totally, absolutely

   Des is ursuper! ― That's really great!

   I håb ur ned gwusst, wås i tuan soi. ― I had absolutely no idea what to do.

   Des is ur der Trottl! ― That's totally an idiot!

   Des is der ur Trottl! ― That's a total idiot!

Can be used as an intensifier for adjectives, adverbs, nouns and noun phrases. For the use as a prefix for adjectives see ur-.

ur

1. a/an

• un
• ul

ur

1. woman
2. wife

• David D. Thomas, Chrau grammar (1971)

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -ur

From Middle Low German ūr (“watch, clock”), which was borrowed, via Middle Dutch ūre, from Old French houre (“hour”), from Latin hōra (“hour”) and ultimately Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “season, hour”). The German Uhr (“watch”) was also borrowed from Low German.

ur n (singular definite uret, plural indefinite ure)

1. clock
2. watch

• → Faroese: ur

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk ur, urd, from Old Norse urð, from Proto-Germanic *wurþiz.

ur c (singular definite uren, plural indefinite urer)

1. scree

Cognate with Swedish hur.

ur

1. how

Borrowed from Danish ur, from German Uhr, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

• IPA^(key): /uːɹ/
• Homophones: urð, Urð

ur n (genitive singular urs, plural ur)

1. watch, timepiece

• armbandsur (“wristwatch”)
• lummaur (“pocketwatch”)

From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

ur

1. (Austria, Vienna, colloquial) very, quite, really, total, totally, absolutely

   Das ist ur super! ― That's really great!

   Ich hab' ur nicht gewusst, was ich tun soll. ― I had absolutely no idea what to do.

   Das ist ur der Trottel! ― That's totally an idiot!

   Das ist der ur Trottel! ― That's a total idiot!

Can be used as an intensifier for adjectives, adverbs, nouns and noun phrases. For the use as a prefix for adjectives see ur-.

From Old Irish or (“limit, boundary, extreme; border, hem”) (compare Welsh or (“limit, border”)).

ur m (genitive singular ura, nominative plural ura)

1. (literary) border, edge

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ur”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 or”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin ūnus (compare Daco-Romanian un), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

ur

1. one

ur

1. rain

ur

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

From Middle Low German ur or ure, compare with German Uhr.

ur n (definite singular uret, indefinite plural ur, definite plural ura or urene)

1. clock
2. watch

• (clock): klokke

• armbåndsur
• gjøkur
• solur
• urmaker

• “ur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German ur or ure, compare with German Uhr.

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

ur n (definite singular uret, indefinite plural ur, definite plural ura)

1. clock
2. watch

• (clock): klokke

• solur

From Old Norse úr n. Doublet of yr.

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

ur m (definite singular uren, indefinite plural urar, definite plural urane)

1. a raincloud in the distance, usually
2. a cold breeze

ur f (definite singular ura, indefinite plural urer, definite plural urene)

1. Alternative form of urd

• “ur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ru

From Proto-Germanic *ūraz. This root survives in the modern English aurochs (though that word is a loan from German), hence its meaning.

• IPA^(key): /uːr/

ūr m

1. aurochs
2. The runic character ᚢ (/uː/ or /u/).
   • The Old English rune poem

     ᚢ byþ ānmōd and oferhyrnded...

     The aurochs is steadfast and great-horned...

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: oure (rare)

From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

ūr m

1. bison, aurochs
2. The runic character ᚢ (/uː/ or /u/).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈuːɾ]

• (Ville Unite):

ur m pl

1. plural of ör

Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 408

• our (Surmiran)

From Latin ōra.

ur m (plural urs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) edge, margins

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish bhur.

ur (triggers eclipsis)

1. your (formal and/or plural)

   Ciamar a tha ur sgòrnan, a sheanair? ― How is your throat, grandfather?

   Bhruidhinn mi ri ur màthraichean. ― I spoke to your (respective) mothers.

• “ur” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.

ur

1. Romanization of 𒌨 (ur)

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʉːr

From Old Norse ór, úr, from Proto-Germanic *uz.

ur

1. out of, (out) from

From German Uhr, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

ur n

1. watch, clock (usually mechanical and when greater emphasis is put on the mechanism)

• klocka
• rova (“pocket watch”)

From Old Swedish ūr, Old Norse úr, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“to rain”), in which case related to Latin urina.

ur n

2. (obsolete) drizzle

• i ur och skur (“through thick and thin; lit. through drizzle and rain”)

• ur in Svensk ordbok.
• ur in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

ur m (Tifinagh spelling ⵓⵔ, plural urawen, diminutive tutc)

1. Alternative spelling of uř: heart

From Ottoman Turkish اور (ur, “cyst, tumor”), from Proto-Turkic *ur (“growth, excrescence”).

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

1. tumour

• tümör