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Definitions and meaning of ur

ur

Interjection

ur

  1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

Pronoun

ur

  1. (informal, Internet, text messaging) Your.

Contraction

ur

  1. (informal, Internet, text messaging) You're, you are.

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): /ur/, [ur]

Etymology 1

Unknown.

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, euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “ur” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

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”), 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

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 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 uber, über and German über-. More at German über.

Adverb

ur

  1. (Austria, colloquial) very, quite, really
    Das ist ur super!

Usage notes

  • Sometimes appended to the modified adjective as a prefix (e.g. urklass).

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

  • "ur" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, 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 Old Norse urð, from Proto-Germanic *wurþiz.

Alternative forms

  • urd

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/, /ʉːɽ/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

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

  1. a terrain of large, fallen rocks

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

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

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

Etymology 3

From Old Norse úr n. Doublet of yr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʉːr/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

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

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

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/).

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: oure (rare)
    • English: owre (obsolete)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

Noun

ūr m

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

Declension


Romagnol

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ur/

Noun

ur m pl

  1. plural of ör

References

Adelmo Masotti (1999) Vocabolario romagnolo italiano (in Italian), 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)

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 (usually mechanical)
Declension
Synonyms
  • klocka
  • rova (“pocket watch”)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Old Swedish ūr, Old Norse úr.

Noun

ur n

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

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

Yug

Noun

ur

  1. water

References

  • Heinrich Werner, Zu den jenissejischen Etymologien mit der Lautsprechung *ʎ- : d’- : l- im Anlaut, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 10, 2010

Source: wiktionary.org
  • an anticline.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)