ఊరు

• IPA^(key): /uːɾu/

Ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *ūr. Cognate with Kannada ಊರು (ūru), Malayalam ഊര് (ūrŭ), Tamil ஊர் (ūr), Tulu ಊರು (ūru). Related to ఊర (ūra).

ఊరు • (ūru) n (plural ఊర్లు)

1. village
2. town
3. settlement

Cognate to Tamil ஊறு (ūṟu), Malayalam ഊറുക (ūṟuka). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

ఊరు • (ūru) (causal ఊరించు)

1. alternative form of ఊఱు (ūṟu)

• పల్లి (palli, “hamlet”)
• పూడి (pūḍi, “hamlet”)
• గూడెము (gūḍemu, “hamlet”)
• -పాడు (-pāḍu, “village”)
• పేట (pēṭa, “town, suburb, city”)
• పట్టణము (paṭṭaṇamu, “town, city”)
• వీడు (vīḍu, “city, town”)
• ప్రోలు (prōlu, “city”)

• "ఊరు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 176
• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003) “Dravidians: prehistory and culture”, in The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 8
• [1] in A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary by T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau
• L. Chakradhara Rao et al, editors (1978-1995), “ఊరు”, in తెలుగు వ్యుత్పత్తికోశం [Telugu Etymological Dictionary] (in Telugu), Visakhapatnam (Waltair): Andhra University Press and Publications