Jura

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

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

From French Jura, perhaps of Celtic origin.

Jura

2. A mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains.
   • 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.

4. A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier. [Created 1790.]
6. A canton of Switzerland. Capital: Delémont. [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.

• Jurassic

• Jura (department) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Canton of Jura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Jura

2. 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.

• Jura, Scotland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Raju

Borrowed from French Jura.

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

Jura m

1. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
2. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

• IPA^(key): [ˈjura]

Jura m anim

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

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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.^[1] More at Jura.

• IPA^(key): /ʒy.ʁa/

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Jura m

1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
3. Jura (a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains)
4. Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland)

• Jurassien
• jurassien

• JU (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

From French Jura

• (Germany) IPA^(key): [ˈjuːʀaː]

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• (Switzerland) IPA^(key): [ˈjuːrɑː]

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

1. Jura (a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains)
2. the Jurassic
3. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)

   Synonym: Kanton Jura

4. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
5. Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland)

• Trias
• Kreide
• Mesozoikum

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

Jura n pl (plural only)

1. law (study)

   Ich habe Jura studiert. ― I studied law.

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

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

• Jurastudent
• Jurastudium, Jura-Studium

Borrowed from French Jura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.ra/

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

Jura f

1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
3. Jura (a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany; in full, Jura Mountains)
4. Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland)

• 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

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

Jura f

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

A hypocoristic form of Juraj.

• IPA^(key): /jûra/

Jȕra m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ју̏ра)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

• IPA^(key): /jǔːra/

Júra f (Cyrillic spelling Ју́ра)

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

• “Jura”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025