fure

• fur, fuir, four, fwir, fuyr

From Danish føre, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną. Cognate with Dutch voeren (“to lead”), Low German fören (“to lead”), German führen (“to lead”), Luxembourgish féieren (“to lead”), Icelandic færa (“to move, carry, convey”), Faroese føra (“to lead, carry”), Swedish föra (“to lead, guide, steer, direct”), Danish føre (“to lead”), Norwegian Bokmål føre (“to lead”).

• IPA^(key): /fjʊɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

fure (third-person singular simple present fures, present participle furing, simple past and past participle fured)

1. (dialectal, rare, obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) To lead.

   So far as his labor and his wisdom fures.

   • 1637, Monro Expedition:

     To his master, the Kings Majesty or General, that fures or leads the war.

2. (dialectal, rare, Northern England, Scotland) To carry, bear, convey, transport.

   No goods should be fured upon the over-loft of the ships.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary

From Latin foras or forīs . Compare Italian fuori.

fure

1. outside

fure

1. inflection of furar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /fù.ɽéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸʊ̀.ɽéː]

fùrē m (plural fùrànnī, possessed form fùren)

1. flower, blossom

fūre

1. ablative singular of fūr

From Old Norse for via Danish fure.

fure m (definite singular furen, indefinite plural furer, definite plural furene)

1. a furrow
2. a groove
3. a line or wrinkle (in the face)

• furet, furete
• plogfure

• fòr (Nynorsk)

• “fure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fure_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• fura (pre-2012)
• furu

From Old Norse fura.

• IPA^(key): /²fuːrə/, [²fuːrə], [²fu̞ːrə]

fure f (definite singular fura, indefinite plural furer, definite plural furene)

1. a pine (tree of the genus Pinus)
2. pine (wood from pine trees)

• “fure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.re/

fūre

1. genitive singular of furh

fure

1. inflection of furar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈfure]

fure

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of fura

fure m

1. key (for a lock)