ur

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Translingual

Symbol

ur

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

English

Interjection

ur

Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

Determiner

ur

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

Derived terms

Contraction

ur

(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

ember

Synonyms

prush

Assan

Noun

ur

rain

Azerbaijani

Etymology

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

Noun

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

(pathology, oncology) neoplasm, tumour
Synonym: şiş

Declension

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

Basque Wikipedia has an article on:

ur

Wikipedia ^eu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uɾ/ [uɾ]
Rhymes: -uɾ

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

hur (Souletin)

Noun

ur inan

water
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

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	—	—

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ur inan

Nonstandard spelling of hur (“hazelnut”).

References

^ “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

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)

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

a/an

Chrau

Noun

ur

woman
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)

clock
watch

Inflection

Declension of ur

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ur	uret	ure	urene
genitive	urs	urets	ures	urenes

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)

scree

Inflection

Declension of ur

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ur	uren	urer	urerne
genitive	urs	urens	urers	urernes

Elfdalian

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish hur.

Adverb

ur

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)

watch, timepiece

Declension

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

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

(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)

(literary) border, edge

Declension

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

go hura an domhain (“to the ends of the earth”)
ur in ur (“from end to end”)
ur le hur (“edge to edge, side by side”)

Mutation

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.

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

one

Kott

Noun

ur

rain

Middle English

Determiner

ur

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)

clock
watch

Synonyms

(clock): klokke

Derived terms

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)

clock
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)

a raincloud in the distance, usually
a cold breeze

Etymology 3

Noun

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

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

aurochs
The runic character ᚢ (/uː/ or /u/).
- The Old English rune poem
  ᚢ byþ ānmōd and oferhyrnded...
  The aurochs is steadfast and great-horned...

Declension

Declension of ūr (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ūr	ūras
accusative	ūr	ūras
genitive	ūres	ūra
dative	ūre	ūrum

Descendants

Middle English: oure (rare)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

Noun

ūr m

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

Declension

Declension of ūr (masculine a-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	ūr	ūros
accusative	ūr	ūros
genitive	ūres	ūrō
dative	ūre	ūrum
instrumental	—	—

Romagnol

Pronunciation

(Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈuːɾ]

(Ville Unite):

Noun

ur m pl

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)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish bhur.

Determiner

ur (triggers eclipsis)

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.

References

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

Sumerian

Romanization

ur

Romanization of 𒌨 (ur)

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Preposition

ur

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

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

Declension

Declension of ur

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ur	urs
singular	definite	uret	urets
plural	indefinite	ur	urs
plural	definite	uren	urens

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

(obsolete) drizzle

Derived terms

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

Tarifit

Noun

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

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)

tumour

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

ur

Definite accusative

uru

Singular

Plural

Nominative

ur

urlar

Definite accusative

uru

urları

Dative

ura

Locative

Ablative

Genitive

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

Synonyms

tümör

[1] “ur” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

[1]

	Singular		Plural
	+ C	+ V	+ C	+ V
First person	mo^L	m'	ar	ar^N
Second person	do^L	d'	ur	ur^N
Third person m	a^L	—	an, am¹⁾	an
Third person f	a	a^H	an, am¹⁾	an
^L Triggers lenition; ^H Triggers H-prothesis; ^N Triggers eclipsis; ¹⁾ Used before b-, f-, m- or p-

ur

Translingual

Symbol

English

Interjection

Determiner

Derived terms

Contraction

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Assan

Noun

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Basque

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

Usage notes

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

References

Further reading

Bavarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adverb

Usage notes

Breton

Article

See also

Chrau

Noun

References

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

Inflection

Elfdalian

Etymology

Adverb

Faroese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Hyponyms

German

Etymology

Adverb

Usage notes

Irish

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

Numeral

Kott

Noun

Middle English

Determiner