ur

ur

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Translingual

Symbol

ur

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

English

Interjection

ur

  1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

Determiner

ur

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

Derived terms

Contraction

ur

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of you're (you are).
    Coordinate terms: u, r

Anagrams

  • Ru.

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • urë

Etymology

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

Noun

ur

  1. ember

Synonyms

  • prush

Assan

Noun

ur

  1. rain

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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

Noun

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

  1. (pathology, oncology) neoplasm, tumour
    Synonym: şiş

Declension

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uɾ/ [uɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾ

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • hur (Souletin)

Noun

ur inan

  1. water
  2. juice
Usage notes

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/).

Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ur inan

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

References

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

Further reading

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

Bavarian

Alternative forms

  • ure

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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!

Usage notes

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

Breton

Article

ur

  1. a/an

See also

  • un
  • ul

Chrau

Noun

ur

  1. woman
  2. wife

References

  • David D. Thomas, Chrau grammar (1971)

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuɐ̯ˀ]
  • Rhymes: -ur

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

ur n (singular definite uret, plural indefinite ure)

  1. clock
  2. watch
Inflection
Descendants
  • → Faroese: ur

Etymology 2

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

Noun

ur c (singular definite uren, plural indefinite urer)

  1. scree
Inflection

Elfdalian

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish hur.

Adverb

ur

  1. how

Faroese

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ur n (genitive singular urs, plural ur)

  1. watch, timepiece

Declension

Hyponyms

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

German

Etymology

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

Adverb

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!

Usage notes

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

ur m (genitive singular ura, nominative plural ura)

  1. (literary) border, edge

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

  • 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

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

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

Numeral

ur

  1. one

Kott

Noun

ur

  1. rain

Middle English

Determiner

ur

  1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. clock
  2. watch

Synonyms

  • (clock): klokke

Derived terms

  • armbåndsur
  • gjøkur
  • solur
  • urmaker

References

  • “ur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/

Noun

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

  1. clock
  2. watch
Synonyms
  • (clock): klokke
Derived terms
  • solur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse úr n. Doublet of yr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/

Noun

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

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

Etymology 3

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of urd

References

  • “ur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ru

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uːr/

Noun

ūr m

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

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

  • Middle English: oure (rare)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

Noun

ūr m

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

Declension


Romagnol

Pronunciation

  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈuːɾ]
  • (Ville Unite):

Noun

ur m pl

  1. plural of ör

References

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • our (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin ōra.

Noun

ur m (plural urs)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish bhur.

Determiner

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.

See also

References

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

Sumerian

Romanization

ur

  1. Romanization of 𒌨 (ur)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/
  • Rhymes: -ʉːr

Etymology 1

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

Preposition

ur

  1. out of, (out) from

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

ur n

  1. watch, clock (usually mechanical and when greater emphasis is put on the mechanism)
Declension
Synonyms
  • klocka
  • rova (“pocket watch”)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

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

Noun

ur n

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

Further reading

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

Tarifit

Noun

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

  1. Alternative spelling of uř: heart

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

  1. tumour

Declension

Synonyms

  • tümör

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