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ur

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ur"
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Translingual

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ur

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

English

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Interjection

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ur

  1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

Determiner

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ur

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

Derived terms

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Contraction

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ur

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

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ur

  1. ember

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Assan

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Noun

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ur

  1. rain

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

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

Declension

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    Declension of ur
singular plural
nominative ur
 urlar
definite accusative uru
 urları
dative ura
 urlara
locative urda
 urlarda
ablative urdan
 urlardan
definite genitive urun
 urların
    Possessive forms of ur
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) urum urlarım
sənin (“your”) urun urların
onun (“his/her/its”) uru urları
bizim (“our”) urumuz urlarımız
sizin (“your”) urunuz urlarınız
onların (“their”) uru or urları urları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) urumu urlarımı
sənin (“your”) urunu urlarını
onun (“his/her/its”) urunu urlarını
bizim (“our”) urumuzu urlarımızı
sizin (“your”) urunuzu urlarınızı
onların (“their”) urunu or urlarını urlarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) uruma urlarıma
sənin (“your”) uruna urlarına
onun (“his/her/its”) uruna urlarına
bizim (“our”) urumuza urlarımıza
sizin (“your”) urunuza urlarınıza
onların (“their”) uruna or urlarına urlarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) urumda urlarımda
sənin (“your”) urunda urlarında
onun (“his/her/its”) urunda urlarında
bizim (“our”) urumuzda urlarımızda
sizin (“your”) urunuzda urlarınızda
onların (“their”) urunda or urlarında urlarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) urumdan urlarımdan
sənin (“your”) urundan urlarından
onun (“his/her/its”) urundan urlarından
bizim (“our”) urumuzdan urlarımızdan
sizin (“your”) urunuzdan urlarınızdan
onların (“their”) urundan or urlarından urlarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) urumun urlarımın
sənin (“your”) urunun urlarının
onun (“his/her/its”) urunun urlarının
bizim (“our”) urumuzun urlarımızın
sizin (“your”) urunuzun urlarınızın
onların (“their”) urunun or urlarının urlarının

Basque

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Basque Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eu
 
baso bat ur (a cup of water)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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ur inan

  1. water
  2. juice
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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
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Declension of ur (inanimate, ending in tap -r)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive ur ura urak
ergative urek urak urek
dative uri urari urei
genitive uren uraren uren
comitative urekin urarekin urekin
causative urengatik urarengatik urengatik
benefactive urentzat urarentzat urentzat
instrumental urez uraz urez
inessive uretan urean uretan
locative uretako ureko uretako
allative uretara urera uretara
terminative uretaraino ureraino uretaraino
directive uretarantz urerantz uretarantz
destinative uretarako urerako uretarako
ablative uretatik uretik uretatik
partitive urik — —
prolative urtzat — —
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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ur inan

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

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  1. ^ “ur” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
  • José Ignacio Hualde, Jon Ortiz de Urbina, A Grammar of Basque (2003, →ISBN

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

Bavarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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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

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

Breton

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Article

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ur

  1. a/an

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Chrau

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Noun

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ur

  1. woman
  2. wife

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  • David D. Thomas, Chrau grammar (1971)

Danish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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ur n (singular definite uret, plural indefinite ure)

  1. clock
  2. watch
Inflection
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Declension of ur
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ur uret ure urene
genitive urs urets ures urenes
Descendants
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  • → Faroese: ur

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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ur c (singular definite uren, plural indefinite urer)

  1. scree
Inflection
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Declension of ur
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ur uren urer urerne
genitive urs urens urers urernes

Elfdalian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Swedish hur.

Adverb

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ur

  1. how

Faroese

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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ur n (genitive singular urs, plural ur)

  1. watch, timepiece

Declension

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Declension of ur
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ur urið ur urini
accusative ur urið ur urini
dative uri urinum urum urunum
genitive urs ursins ura uranna

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German

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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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

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

Irish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ur m (genitive singular ura, nominative plural ura)

  1. (literary) border, edge

Declension

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Declension of ur (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ur ura
vocative a ur a ura
genitive ura ur
dative ur ura
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-ur na hura
genitive an ura na n-ur
dative leis an ur
don ur 		leis na hura

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of ur
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ur n-ur hur not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Istro-Romanian

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Etymology

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

Numeral

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ur

  1. one

Kott

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Noun

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ur

  1. rain

Middle English

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Determiner

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ur

  1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. clock
  2. watch

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. clock
  2. watch
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse úr n. Doublet of yr.

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Noun

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

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

Etymology 3

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of urd

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Anagrams

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Old English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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ūr m

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

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative ūr ūras
accusative ūr ūras
genitive ūres ūra
dative ūre ūrum

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  • Middle English: oure (rare)

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

Noun

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ūr m

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

Declension

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Declension of ūr (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative ūr ūros
accusative ūr ūros
genitive ūres ūrō
dative ūre ūrum
instrumental — —


Romagnol

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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ur m pl

  1. plural of ör

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

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin ōra.

Noun

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ur m (plural urs)

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

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish bhur.

Determiner

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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.

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Scottish Gaelic possessive determiners
Singular Plural
C V C V
First person moL m' ar arN
Second person doL d' ur urN
Third person m aL — an, am1) an
Third person f a aH
L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; N Triggers eclipsis; 1) Used before b-, f-, m- or p-

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Sumerian

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Romanization

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ur

  1. Romanization of 𒌨 (ur)

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʉːr

Etymology 1

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

Preposition

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ur

  1. out of, (out) from

Etymology 2

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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

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ur n

  1. watch, clock (usually mechanical and when greater emphasis is put on the mechanism)
Declension
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Declension of ur
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ur urs
definite uret urets
plural indefinite ur urs
definite uren urens
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Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

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ur n

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

Further reading

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

Tarifit

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative spelling of uř: heart

Turkish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

  1. tumour

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative ur
Definite accusative uru
Singular Plural
Nominative ur urlar
Definite accusative uru urları
Dative ura urlara
Locative urda urlarda
Ablative urdan urlardan
Genitive urun urların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular urum urlarım
2nd singular urun urların
3rd singular uru urları
1st plural urumuz urlarımız
2nd plural urunuz urlarınız
3rd plural urları urları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular urumu urlarımı
2nd singular urunu urlarını
3rd singular urunu urlarını
1st plural urumuzu urlarımızı
2nd plural urunuzu urlarınızı
3rd plural urlarını urlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular uruma urlarıma
2nd singular uruna urlarına
3rd singular uruna urlarına
1st plural urumuza urlarımıza
2nd plural urunuza urlarınıza
3rd plural urlarına urlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular urumda urlarımda
2nd singular urunda urlarında
3rd singular urunda urlarında
1st plural urumuzda urlarımızda
2nd plural urunuzda urlarınızda
3rd plural urlarında urlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular urumdan urlarımdan
2nd singular urundan urlarından
3rd singular urundan urlarından
1st plural urumuzdan urlarımızdan
2nd plural urunuzdan urlarınızdan
3rd plural urlarından urlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular urumun urlarımın
2nd singular urunun urlarının
3rd singular urunun urlarının
1st plural urumuzun urlarımızın
2nd plural urunuzun urlarınızın
3rd plural urlarının urlarının

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