Jura

See also: jura, jurá, jūra, jūrā, and jūrą

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Etymology 1

Location of Jura (département) in France (sense 2)

Location of Jura (canton) in Switzerland (sense 3)

From French Jura, perhaps of Celtic origin.

Proper noun

Jura

1. The Jura Mountains, a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.
   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.

   • 1862, Author not identified, The Fir-Tree of the Jura, The Fir-Tree of the Jura and Other Stories, Oliphants Juvenile Series, page 7,

     On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.

2. A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier. [Created 1790.]
3. A canton of Switzerland. [Created 1979.]

   Synonym: canton of Jura

   • 2004, Jan Oskar Engene, Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950, page 158:

     This parallel is the Jura conflict. While the cantonal structure in Switzerland largely follows linguistic lines, the predominantly French-speaking Jura had for a long time until recently been a part of the German-speaking canton of Bern.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Bernese Jura
• Franconian Jura
• Montes Jura
• Paps of Jura
• Polish Jura
• Jura-Trias

Related terms

• Jurassic

Translations

department in France

• Arabic: جُورَا f (jūrā)
• Dutch: Jura (nl)
• Finnish: Jura (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Jura
• French: Jura (fr) m
• German: Jura (de)
• Italian: Giura (it) m
• Marathi: जुरा (jurā)
• Occitan: Jura f
• Sicilian: Giura m

canton in Switzerland

• Arabic: جُورَا f (jūrā)
• Corsican: Ghjura m, Giura m
• Dutch: Jura (nl)
• Finnish: Jura (fi)
• French: Jura (fr) m
• German: Jura (de)
• Italian: Giura (it) m
• Marathi: जुरा (jurā)
• Polish: Jura (pl) f
• Russian: Юра́ (ru) f (Jurá)
• Sicilian: Giura m
• Ukrainian: Юра́ (uk) f (Jurá)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} Svisa Jura (3)
• French: ^{(please verify)} Jura (fr) m (2), ^{(please verify)} le canton du Jura m (3), ^{(please verify)} Jura (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} Canton Giura (3)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} Jura (sv) (2)

See also

• Jura (departement) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Canton of Jura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (cantons of Switzerland) Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Glarus, Grisons, Jura, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri, Vaud, Valais, Zug, Zurich ^{(Category: en:Cantons of Switzerland)}

Etymology 2

Jura (island) in Scotland from the air

From Scottish Gaelic Diùra, from Old Norse Dýrey (literally “animal island”).

Proper noun

Jura

1. An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
   • 1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275,

     Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph.

Translations

island in the inner Hebrides of Scotland

• Dutch: Jura (nl)
• German: Jura (de)
• Marathi: जुरा (jurā)
• Scots: Jura
• Scottish Gaelic: Diùra

See also

• Jura, Scotland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Raju

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒu.ɾa]

Proper noun

Jura m

1. Jura (a canton of Switzerland; capital: Delémont)
2. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; capital: Lons-le-Saunier)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjura]

Proper noun

Jura m anim

1. (dialectal) a diminutive of the male given name Jiří

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of Gaulish *iuris (“wooded mountain”), commonly derived from Proto-Celtic *yor- (“forest”), but this remains speculative, as cognates of this Celtic root remain lacking. More at Jura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.ʁa/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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Proper noun

Jura m

1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
3. Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
4. Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

Derived terms

• Jurassien
• jurassien

See also

• (cantons of Switzerland) Cantons suisses; Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures, Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures, Argovie, Bâle-Campagne, Bâle-Ville, Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Glaris, Grisons, Jura, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Nidwald, Obwald, Saint-Gall, Schaffhouse, Schwytz, Soleure, Tessin, Thurgovie, Uri, Valais, Vaud, Zoug, Zurich ^{(Category: fr:Cantons of Switzerland)}

German

Kanton Jura (sense 3)

Alternative forms

• JU (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

Etymology 1

From French Jura

Pronunciation

• (Germany) IPA^(key): [ˈjuːʀaː]

  • Audio:

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• (Switzerland) IPA^(key): [ˈjuːrɑː]

  • Audio (Switzerland):

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Proper noun

der Jura m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Juras)

1. Jura Mountains (a mountain range on the border of France, Switzerland and Germany)
2. the Jurassic
3. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
4. Jura (a region of France)

   Synonym: Kanton Jura

5. Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom)

Declension

Declension of Jura [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der	Jura
genitive	des	Juras
dative	dem	Jura
accusative	den	Jura

Derived terms

• Jurassier
• jurassisch

 

See also

• Trias
• Kreide
• Mesozoikum
• (cantons of Switzerland) Schweizer Kantone; Aargau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Freiburg, Genf, Glarus, Graubünden, Jura, Luzern, Neuenburg, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Tessin, Thurgau, Uri, Waadt, Wallis, Zug, Zürich ^{(Category: de:Cantons of Switzerland)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin iūra, nominative plural of iūs (“law, right”).

Noun

Jura n pl (plural only)

1. law (study)

   Ich habe Jura studiert. ― I studied law.

Usage notes

• Used generally without article and without attributive adjectives, so no gender or number applies except from an etymological view.
• Often used in Jura studieren.

Declension

Declension of Jura [pl-only, neuter]

	plural
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Jura
genitive	der	Jura
dative	den	Jura
accusative	die	Jura

Synonyms

• (law): Jurisprudenz, Jus (Switzerland, Austria), Rechtswissenschaft, Recht, Rechte, Juristerei (humorous)

Related terms

• Jurastudent
• Jurastudium, Jura-Studium

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: Ju‧ra
• Homophone: jura

Proper noun

Jura f

1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
3. Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
4. Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

Declension

Declension of Jura

	singular
nominative	Jura
genitive	Jury
dative	Jurze
accusative	Jurę
instrumental	Jurą
locative	Jurze
vocative	Juro

Derived terms

noun

• jura

 

Related terms

adjective

• jurajski

 

Further reading

• Jura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Jura in PWN's encyclopedia
• “Jura”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Romanian

Etymology

From Jora. Compare Ukrainian Жура (Žura), Russian Жура (Žura), Polish Żura.

Proper noun

Jura f

1. A village in Jura, Transnistria, Moldova
2. A commune of Transnistria, Moldova

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

A hypocoristic form of Juraj.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /jûra/

Proper noun

Jȕra m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /jǔːra/

Proper noun

Júra f

1. (geology) Jurassic, the time period from 200 to 145 million years ago

Further reading

• “Jura”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024