dura

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdjʊə.ɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Ellipsis of dura mater.

dura (plural durae)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of dura mater.

Borrowing from Arabic ذُرَة (ḏura, “Indian millet”).

dura (usually uncountable, plural duras)

1. Alternative form of durra.
   • 1914, Omar Orlando Churchill, Forage and Silage Crops for Oklahoma, page 10:

     Kafir makes better forage than the duras.

• pietra dura

• “dura”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dura”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• urad, Daru, Daur, daur., Adur, duar

dura

1. third-person singular present indicative of durar
2. second-person singular imperative of durar

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

dura

1. inflection of durar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

dura

1. mosquito

• IPA^(key): [duːra]

dura f sg

1. genitive singular of dyr

   uttan dura ― outside the door

dura

1. feminine singular of dur

• IPA^(key): /dy.ʁa/

dura

1. third-person singular past historic of durer

• ardu

dura

1. feminine singular of duro

dura

1. inflection of durar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: dù‧ra

dura f sg

1. feminine singular of duro

dura

1. inflection of durare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• udrà

dūra

1. inflection of dūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

dūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of dūrus

dūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dūrō

• "dura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “dura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dura”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• düra (Modern orthography)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Milan) IPA^(key): /ˈdyːra/

dura (Classical Milanese orthography)

1. singular feminine of dur

From Sanskrit दूर (dūra).

dura (Jawi spelling دورا)

1. far

   Synonym: jauh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

dura (Jawi spelling دورا)

1. restless, anxious

   Synonyms: gelisah, runsing

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “دورا doera”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 128
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “دور dura”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “dura”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 291

• “dura” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Arabic دَوْرَة (dawra). Doublet of dawra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ra/

dura f (plural duri or duriet)

1. a hut used by hunters and birdcatchers as a watching place

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dura

1. feminine singular of dur

dura

1. inflection of duru:
   1. genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural

dura

1. genitive plural of dyrr

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kociewie) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ra/
  • (Northern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ra/
  • (Eastern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ra/

dura f

1. (Northern Greater Poland, Eastern Greater Poland, Malbork) alternative form of dziura

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “dura”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 33
• Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “dura”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 744

• Hyphenation: du‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾɐ

dura

1. feminine singular of duro

dura

1. inflection of durar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /duˈra/

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Inherited from Latin dolāre.

a dura (third-person singular present durează, past participle durat) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to build (a building)

   Synonyms: construi, clădi, zidi

2. to make (something)
3. to light a fire

   Synonym: aprinde

4. (rare) to fashion or smooth wood

   Synonym: ciopli

Borrowed from French durer, from Latin dūrō, dūrāre.

a dura (third-person singular present durează, past participle durat) 1st conjugation

1. (intransitive) to last, endure

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɾa/ [ˈd̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: du‧ra

dura

1. feminine singular of duro

dura

1. inflection of durar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Arabic دُرَّة (durra), a variety of parrot (Psittacus alexandri Linnaeus).

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dura class IX (plural dura class X)

1. parrot

• lura

From earlier variant lura, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ludaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ludaq. Compare Tausug lura' and Malay ludah.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /duˈɾaʔ/ [d̪ʊˈɾaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: du‧ra

durâ (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇ)

1. spit; sputum; spittle
2. spitting (of one's saliva)

   Synonym: pagdura

• “dura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ludaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI