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ur
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What does ur mean?
interjection
- Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
determiner
- Abbreviation of your.
contraction
- Abbreviation of you're (you are).
More meanings (3)
noun
- Initialism of underlying representation.
proper noun
- An ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq; modern Tell el-Muqayyar.
- A hypothetical early supercontinent which may have existed on Earth during the Archaean eon (3.1 billion years ago).
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IPA pronunciation
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It was specially mentioned that his brother, Lot's father, died in Ur, the city of his nativity.
In that kingdom of Chaldea, in a city that is clept Ur, dwelled Terah, Abraham’s father.
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Two large graminivorous or browsing quadrupeds, the ur and the schelk, once common in Germany, have been utterly extirpated, the eland and the auerochs nearly so.
How is it that ur, a Gaelic word for fire, is so like urá the Basque word for water, and Ure the name of an English stream?
It is believed that Abraham introduced fire-worship among the Jews from Ur in Mesopotamia, a land in which lights are still venerated, and fire altars are worshipped as containing the Deity.