fura

fúra

1. leaf

   Synonyms: fúrakɛlan, jíribulu, jírifura, búlu

2. page, leaf of paper

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fūra, fūrō.

fura f (plural fures)

1. ferret (animal)

   Synonym: furó

2. (zoology) three-bearded rockling (Gaidropsarus vulgaris)

   Synonym: oliana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fura

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

• “fura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Norse fura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuːɹa/
• Rhymes: -uːɹa

fura f (genitive singular furu, plural furur)

1. pine (tree)

Back-formation from furar (“to pierce”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuɾa̝/

fura f (plural furas)

1. (woodwoking) mortise (a hole that is made to receive a tenon)
2. (woodwoking) a hole made for inserting a peg or other similar element

   Synonyms: buraco, furado

3. beech marten

   Synonyms: fuíña, furatoxos, garduña

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fura”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fura”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fura”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fura

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

• IPA^(key): /fú.ɽáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸʊ́.ɽáː]

furā f (possessed form furar̃)

1. Balls of cooked millet in cultured milk.
2. Gruel made by mixing the aforementioned balls with sour milk or, less often, with water and tamarind.

It converted to adjectives from the verb fúr (“to disturb, worry, perturb”) +‎ -a (obsolete participle suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfurɒ]
• Hyphenation: fu‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

fura (comparative furább, superlative legfurább)

1. strange, odd, weird

   Synonyms: bizarr, bolondos, furcsa, különös, meglepő, szokatlan

• fura in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Norse fura, from Proto-Germanic *furhō. Cognate with Danish fyr, Norwegian Nynorsk furu, Swedish fura, Dutch vuren, German Föhre, English fir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏːra/
• Rhymes: -ʏːra

fura f (genitive singular furu, nominative plural furur)

1. pine (tree)

   Synonyms: fýri, furutré

• rauf

From Portuguese furar.

fura

1. pierce
2. punch, drill

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

From Old Norse fura.

• IPA^(key): /²fuˑra/, [²fu̞ː.rɐ̞], [²fu̞r.rɐ̞]
• Rhymes: -ra
• Hyphenation: fu‧ra

fura f (definite singular fura, indefinite plural furer or furor, definite plural furene or furone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of fure
2. definite singular of fure

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.rɑ/

fūra

1. genitive plural of furh

From Proto-Germanic *furhō.

fura f (genitive furu)

1. fir, firtree; pine (tree)

• fýri

In Norwegian and Swedish, the form furu is derived from the oblique case of this noun, rather than the nominative. It is uncertain whether or not the Middle English word firre, whence Modern English fir, is the result of borrowing from Old Norse, or a genuine derivation from Old English fyrh, furh.

• Icelandic: fura f
• Faroese: fura f
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fura f, fure f, furu f
• Norwegian: (dialectal) furu, furo, foro (East Norway); føru, fårå, fåra, faro (Trøndelag); før, får (Northern Norway)
• Norwegian Bokmål: furu f or m
• Old Swedish: fora
  • Swedish: fura c, furu c
• Danish: fyr c
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fyrr m
• >? Middle English: firre
  • English: fir

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fura”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Borrowed from Middle High German vuore (whence also German Fuhre).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: fu‧ra

fura f

1. cart

   Synonym: wóz

2. (colloquial) car, especially a fast and expensive one
3. (colloquial) a large quantity or excess (of something); literally a cartload

• fura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: fu‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾɐ

fura

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fūrāre, from Latin fūror.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: fu‧ra

a fura (third-person singular present fură, past participle furat, third-person subjunctive fure) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive or intransitive) to steal

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fura

2. (transitive, informal) to defraud, to steal from someone
3. (reflexive, obsolete) synonym of furișa (“to sneak”)

• “fura”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Ultimately from Latin fur.

fura f

1. theft

• Audio (Kenya):

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-fura (infinitive kufura)

1. to swell

   Synonym: -vimba

Conjugation of -fura
Positive present -nafura Subjunctive -fure Negative -furi Imperative singular fura
Infinitives
Positive kufura Negative kutofura
Imperatives
Singular fura Plural fureni
Tensed forms
Habitual hufura Positive past positive subject concord + -lifura Negative past negative subject concord + -kufura
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nafura) Singular Plural 1st person ninafura/nafura tunafura 2nd person unafura mnafura 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anafura wanafura other classes positive subject concord + -nafura
Negative present (negative subject concord + -furi) Singular Plural 1st person sifuri hatufuri 2nd person hufuri hamfuri 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hafuri hawafuri other classes negative subject concord + -furi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tafura Negative future negative subject concord + -tafura
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -fure) Singular Plural 1st person nifure tufure 2nd person ufure mfure 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afure wafure other classes positive subject concord + -fure
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sifure Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngefura Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singefura Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalifura Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalifura
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -afura) Singular Plural 1st person nafura twafura 2nd person wafura mwafura 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afura wafura m-mi(III/IV) wafura yafura ji-ma(V/VI) lafura yafura ki-vi(VII/VIII) chafura vyafura n(IX/X) yafura zafura u(XI) wafura see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwafura pa(XVI) pafura mu(XVIII) mwafura
Perfect positive subject concord + -mefura "Already" positive subject concord + -meshafura "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jafura "If/When" positive subject concord + -kifura "If not" positive subject concord + -sipofura Consecutive kafura / positive subject concord + -kafura Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kafure
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nifura -tufura 2nd person -kufura -wafura/-kufureni/-wafureni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mfura -wafura m-mi(III/IV) -ufura -ifura ji-ma(V/VI) -lifura -yafura ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kifura -vifura n(IX/X) -ifura -zifura u(XI) -ufura see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kufura pa(XVI) -pafura mu(XVIII) -mufura Reflexive -jifura
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -fura- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -furaye -furao m-mi(III/IV) -furao -furayo ji-ma(V/VI) -furalo -furayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -furacho -furavyo n(IX/X) -furayo -furazo u(XI) -furao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -furako pa(XVI) -furapo mu(XVIII) -furamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -fura) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yefura -ofura m-mi(III/IV) -ofura -yofura ji-ma(V/VI) -lofura -yofura ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chofura -vyofura n(IX/X) -yofura -zofura u(XI) -ofura see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kofura pa(XVI) -pofura mu(XVIII) -mofura
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Inherited from Old Swedish fora, from Old Norse fura, from Proto-Germanic *furhō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pérk-u-s ~ *pr̥kʷ-éw-s (“oak”). First attested in the late 13th century.

Cognate with Danish fyr, Icelandic fura, Norwegian Nynorsk furu, Dutch vuren, German Föhre, English fir, and Latin quercus (“oak”).

• Rhymes: -²ʉːra

fura c

1. a (tall) pine tree

   Synonym: tall

• furufnatt (“squirrel”)
• falla som en fura

• fur
• furu (“pine wood”)

• fura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fura in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• funra

fu (“to suspect”) +‎ ara (“body, person”)

• IPA^(key): /fū.ɾā/

fura

1. to be suspicious, to suspect

   mo fura ― I became suspicious

From Hausa furā.

• IPA^(key): /fú.ɾá/

fúrá

1. A boiled millet paste that can be crushed in water or milk and eaten like a pap or porridge, similar to ẹ̀kọ