fur

Clipping of Friulian furlan.

fur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Friulian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Friulian terms

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare Old English fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶυ (pôu, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watches, protects”).

The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line, stuff, fill”), from the noun.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /fɜː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɜɹ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fʌr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /føː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /feː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /fɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: fir (fern–fir–fur merger); fair, fare (both fair–fur merger)

fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

2. (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
3. (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
4. (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.

   During the colonial period, Britain used Canada as a major source of furs.

5. (countable) A garment made of fur.
   • November 17, 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter to the Countess of Mar

     wrapped up in my furs

6. (uncountable) A coating or lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
   1. (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
   2. (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
   3. (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
   4. (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
8. (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.

   Coordinate terms: colour, metal, stain

9. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
11. (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
    • 2006, Shari Caudron, Who Are You People?:

      "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."

12. (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
13. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
14. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.

fur (third-person singular simple present furs, present participle furring, simple past and past participle furred)

1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
   • 2015, Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons:

     The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.

3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.

   Synonym: fur out

• furred

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Longer Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 516:

     A’most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, to-morrow.

• urf

From Vulgar Latin fūrō, from Latin fūror. Compare Romanian fura, fur.

• furu, afur, afuru

fur first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative furã, past participle furatã)

1. to steal

• furari / furare
• furat
• furtu

From Latin fūr. Compare archaic Daco-Romanian fur.

• furu, afur, afuru

fur m (plural furi)

1. thief, robber

• furcudar, haramiu, chisãgi, caceac

From Old Catalan for, from Latin forum. Doublet of for and fòrum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈfur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown

fur m (plural furs)

1. (law) fuero

• contrafur

• aforar
• desafur
• foral

• “fur”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Old Cornish fur, from Latin fur. Cognate with Breton fur.

• IPA^(key): /fyːr/

fur

1. wise, prudent
2. sensible, well-behaved

• fuor, fuar, far
• fachir (Ragusan)

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

fur

1. to do
2. to make

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000, page 310

Inherited from Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /fyʁ/

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fur m (plural not attested)

1. only used in au fur et à mesure (“to an equitable extent”)

• “fur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see ferō). Cognate with Ancient Greek φώρ (phṓr).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfur]

fūr m or f (genitive fūris); third declension

1. A thief

Third-declension noun.

• fūrtīvus (adjective)
• fūrtum (noun)
• fūrtim (adverb)
• fūror (verb)
• homo trium litterarum ("man of three letters," euphemism for fur)

• Aromanian: fur
• Italian: furo, fuio
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fura, furó
  • Occitan: fura
• Romanian: fur
• ⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis (“thief”)
  • Old Italian: furone
  • Old French: fuiron (< *fūriō)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: foron
    • Fala: furón
    • Galician: furón
    • Portuguese: furão
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: hurón
  • →⇒ Central Franconian: Fürner (< *fūriō)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)
  • Italian: furetto
  • Occitan: furet, huret, fura
  • Old French: furet, firet, furret
    • French: furet
      • → Middle Dutch: furet, fret
        • Dutch: fret
        • → German: Frett, Frettchen
          • → Finnish: fretti
    • → Middle English: furet, ferret
      • Scots: ferret
      • English: ferret
  • Romansch: furet
  • Sicilian: furittu

• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fur", 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)
• fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• furi

fur

1. for

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 55

• IPA^(key): /ˈfur/
• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: fur

fur f

1. genitive plural of fura

Inherited from Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”).

• IPA^(key): [fur]

fur

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fura

fur m (plural furi)

1. (archaic) thief

   Synonyms: hoț, bandit

• fura
• furt

fur

1. open

• fure

• IPA^(key): /fʉːr/
• Rhymes: -ʉːr

fur c (uncountable)

1. pinewood

   Synonym: (more common) furu

2. (archaic or somewhat solemn) pine tree (in some areas chiefly about old trees)

   fur och gran

   pine and spruce

• (tree): tall (if a distinction is made between this and "fur", this will be used about younger trees), fura

• fura
• fure
• furu

• fur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• fru

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /vɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /viːr/

fur

1. soft mutation of mur