hura

hura

1. month
2. moon

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

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• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /huɾa/ [hu.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /uɾa/ [u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: hu‧ra

hura (postposed, demonstrative)

1. that (far from speaker and listener)

hura

1. (demonstrative) that one (far from speaker and listener)
2. Third-person singular personal pronoun; he, she, it

   Synonym: bera

• “hura”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “hura”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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hura

1. hooray!

• IPA^(key): /húː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [húː.ɽàː]

hūrā̀ (grade 1)

1. to blow on something, to inflate

hura

1. armadillo

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

• IPA^(key): [ˈhuːra]

hura

1. comb

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “hura”, in Lamboya word list‎^[3], Leiden: LexiRumah

Borrowed from Early New High German Hure. Doublet of kurwa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: hu‧ra

hura f

1. whore, prostitute
2. (derogatory) bitch, slut

Akin to Veps hura.

hura

1. left

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *fula (“to dance”)^[1][2]

hura

1. to put or raise a hand up
2. to twitch, to shrug

• huhura
• hurahura

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hura

1. to open a lid or cover
2. to uncover, to expose
3. to discover
4. to break (of dawn)
5. (of tides, currents) to swell or rise

• huhura
• hurahura

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hura”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 83-4
• “hura” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

hura

1. (chiefly southern West Midland and Southern dialectal) alternative form of here (“their”)

hūra f

1. alternative form of hūria

• hurra

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /xuˈra/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: hu‧ra

hura

1. hooray (elated expression of approval)

   Synonym: wiwat

• hura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Akin to Karelian hurai (“left”), Livonian kura (“left”) and Votic kurra (“to the left”).

hura

1. left (opposite of right)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “левый”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika