ur

ur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Urdu.

ur

1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.

ur

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of your.

ur

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, colloquial) Abbreviation of you're (you are).

   Coordinate terms: u, r

• Ru.

• urë

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). Compare Latin ūrō.

ur

1. ember

• prush

ur

1. rain

From Proto-Common Turkic *ur. Cognate with Turkish ur, etc.

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

1. (pathology, oncology) neoplasm, tumour

   Synonym: şiş

• IPA^(key): /uɾ/ [ur]

Unknown.^[1] Some claim from Proto-Basque *(h)ur; possibly a truly prehistoric word from a substrate.

• hur (Soule)

ur inan

1. water
2. juice

This is one of a few words with an underlying final flap /uɾ/, so with the article it has the form ura (/u.ɾa/), contrasting with hur (“hazelnut”) (/ur/). Unambiguously compare Cumbric ur (“water”).

ur inan

1. nonstandard spelling of hur (“hazelnut”)

• José Ignacio Hualde, Jon Ortiz de Urbina, A Grammar of Basque (2003, →ISBN

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

• ure

From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

• IPA^(key): /uɐ̯/, /uːɐ̯/
• Homophone: Uhr

ur (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)

1. very, quite, really, total, totally, absolutely

   Des is ursuper! ― That's really great!

   I håb ur ned gwusst, wås i tuan soi. ― I had absolutely no idea what to do.

   Des is ur der Trottl! ― That's totally an idiot!

   Des is der ur Trottl! ― That's a total idiot!

Can be used as an intensifier for adjectives, adverbs, nouns and noun phrases. For the use as a prefix for adjectives see ur-.

ur

1. a/an

• un
• ul

ur

1. woman
2. wife

• David D. Thomas, Chrau grammar (1971)

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -ur

From Middle Low German ūr (“watch, clock”), which was borrowed, via Middle Dutch ūre, from Old French houre (“hour”), from Latin hōra (“hour”) and ultimately Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “season, hour”). The German Uhr (“watch”) was also borrowed from Low German.

ur n (singular definite uret, plural indefinite ure)

1. clock
2. watch

• → Faroese: ur

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk ur, urd, from Old Norse urð, from Proto-Germanic *wurþiz.

ur c (singular definite uren, plural indefinite urer)

1. scree

Cognate with Swedish hur.

ur

1. how

Borrowed from Danish ur, from German Uhr, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

• IPA^(key): /uːɹ/
• Homophones: urð, Urð

ur n (genitive singular urs, plural ur)

1. watch, timepiece

• armbandsur (“wristwatch”)
• lummaur (“pocketwatch”)

From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

ur

1. (Austria, Vienna, colloquial) very, quite, really, total, totally, absolutely

   Das ist ur super! ― That's really great!

   Ich hab' ur nicht gewusst, was ich tun soll. ― I had absolutely no idea what to do.

   Das ist ur der Trottel! ― That's totally an idiot!

   Das ist der ur Trottel! ― That's a total idiot!

Can be used as an intensifier for adjectives, adverbs, nouns and noun phrases. For the use as a prefix for adjectives see ur-.

Unambiguously compare Basque ur (“water”), possibly borrowed into Proto-Basque *(h)ur.

ur

1. water
2. rain

   tikaś ur

   Impure water

• Villamor, Fernando (2020) A basic dictionary and grammar of the Iberian language

From Old Irish or (“limit, boundary, extreme; border, hem”) (compare Welsh or (“limit, border”)).

ur m (genitive singular ura, nominative plural ura)

1. (literary) border, edge

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ur”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 or”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Latin ūnus (compare Daco-Romanian un), from Old Latin oinos, from Proto-Italic *oinos, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

ur

1. one

Unknown. A connection to Iberian ur (“water, rain”) can be suggested without any additional confirmation.

ur

1. rain

ur

1. alternative form of oure (“our”)

From Middle Low German ur or ure, compare with German Uhr.

ur n (definite singular uret, indefinite plural ur, definite plural ura or urene)

1. clock
2. watch

• (clock): klokke

• armbåndsur
• gjøkur
• solur
• urmaker

• “ur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German ur or ure, compare with German Uhr.

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

ur n (definite singular uret, indefinite plural ur, definite plural ura)

1. clock
2. watch

• (clock): klokke

• solur

From Old Norse úr n. Doublet of yr.

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

ur m (definite singular uren, indefinite plural urar, definite plural urane)

1. a raincloud in the distance, usually
2. a cold breeze

ur f (definite singular ura, indefinite plural urer, definite plural urene)

1. alternative form of urd

• “ur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ru

From Proto-Germanic *ūraz. This root survives in the modern English aurochs (though that word is a loan from German), hence its meaning.

• IPA^(key): /uːr/

ūr m

1. aurochs
2. The runic character ᚢ (/uː/ or /u/).
   • The Old English rune poem

     ᚢ byþ ānmōd and oferhyrnded...

     The aurochs is steadfast and great-horned...

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: oure (rare)

From Proto-Germanic *ūruz.

ūr m

1. bison, aurochs
2. The runic character ᚢ (/uː/ or /u/).

From Old Norse úr, Proto-Germanic *ūrą (“water, rain; wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade form of *weh₁r- (“water”).

ūr n

1. prominent (windy) precipitation (drizzle, rain, hail, sleet, snow), by extension: bad weather involving precipitation, light storm
3. windy snowfall
4. (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚢ (u)
   • ca. 1530, Olaus Petri, “Om runskrift.”, in Olaus Petri, Samlade skrifter 4, 1917:

     Fyr f. Vr u. Thors þ. Aos o. Radher r. Kaguen k. Hagel h. Nodher n. Is i. Åårs a. Sool s. Thir t. Birkal b. Lagher l. Madher m. hengiande sool R.

     Fire f. Ur u. Thurs (Jötun) þ. Æsir o. Read (Ruling) r. Kåk (Penalty post) k. Hail h. Need n. Ice i. Year a. Sun s. Tyr t. Birch b. Lake l. Man m. hanging sun R.

• ūrvæþer, ūrvædher

• Swedish: ur n
• ⇒ Swedish: yr n, yra f

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈuːɾ]

• (Ville Unite):

ur m pl

1. plural of ör

Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 408

• our (Surmiran)

From Latin ōra.

ur m (plural urs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) edge, margins

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish bhur.

ur (triggers eclipsis)

1. your (formal and/or plural)

   Ciamar a tha ur sgòrnan, a sheanair? ― How is your throat, grandfather?

   Bhruidhinn mi ri ur màthraichean. ― I spoke to your (respective) mothers.

• “ur” in R. A. Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, London, 1825, →OCLC.

ur

1. romanization of 𒌨 (ur)

• IPA^(key): /ʉːr/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːr

From Old Norse ór, úr, from Proto-Germanic *uz.

ur

1. out of, (out) from

From German Uhr, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

ur n

1. watch, clock (usually mechanical and when greater emphasis is put on the mechanism)

• klocka
• rova (“pocket watch”)

From Old Swedish ūr, Old Norse úr, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“to rain”), in which case related to Latin urina.

ur n

2. prominent (windy) precipitation (rain, hail, sleet, snow), bad weather involving precipitation, light storm; today mainly in the compound urväder (ur weather), or regionally, like the Gotlandic compound: starur ("starling ur": precipitation that occurs at the time in spring when the starlings return; precipitation in March)
   • 1969, Dagmar Edqvist, Mannen som kom hem:

     En starur drog över landet med hagel och slagregn.

     A “starling ur” swept across the country with hail and hard rain.

3. (heavy) snowfall combined with (strong) wind, blustery and profuse snowfall; snow flurry; today mainly in the compound urväder (ur weather), also the form yrväder; also the related compound snöyra (snow ur)
4. (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚢ (u)
   • 1599, Johannes Bureus, “Swedish Runic poems”, in Runakenslanes läraspån:

     ᚢᛦ ᛁ ᚢᛅᛋᛏᛆᚿ ᚢᛅᚧᚱ (Ur i västanväder)

     "Ur" in western wind

• yr
• yra

• i ur och skur (“through thick and thin; lit. through "ur" and shower”)
• sandur, variant of sandyr, sandyra (“sand's whirling; sand drift; sand drifting with the wind”)
• snöur (“snowstorm, snowfall, flurry”)
• starur (“precipitation that occurs at the time in spring when the starlings return; precipitation in March”)
• stenur (“stone ships at the foot of a mountain from its weathering”)
• urväder (“annoying precipitation”)

• ur in Svensk ordbok.
• ur in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

ur m (Tifinagh spelling ⵓⵔ, plural urawen, diminutive tutc)

1. alternative spelling of uř: heart

From Ottoman Turkish اور (ur, “cyst, tumor”), from Proto-Turkic *ur (“growth, excrescence”).

ur (definite accusative uru, plural urlar)

1. tumour

• tümör