gour

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== gour (plural gours) Dated form of gaur (“Asian wild bovine”). === Etymology 2 === From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gurges. ==== Noun ==== gour (plural gours) A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== gour (plural gours) (India, obsolete) The head man of a village in the Canarese-speaking country. c. 1800, Munro's Life, iii. 92 Every Tehsildary is farmed out in villages to the Gours or head-men. ==== References ==== Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “gour”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […]. === Anagrams === Guro, guro == Breton == === Etymology === From Middle Breton *gur, from Old Breton gur, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡuːʁ/ === Noun === gour m (plural goured or gourien or gourion) man person (used in negation) (rare) husband ==== Derived terms ==== Gourcuff == Cornish == === Etymology === From Old Cornish uir, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros. Cognate with Breton gour, Gaulish *wiros, Irish and Scottish Gaelic fear, Manx fer, and Welsh gŵr. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡuːɹ/ === Noun === gour m (plural gwer) husband Synonym: gourti man Synonyms: den, gwas ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡuʁ/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr. ==== Noun ==== gour m (plural gours) butte === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Middle French, from Latin gurges. ==== Noun ==== gour m (plural gours) a permanent rock pool an oxbow, especially along the Loire ===== Descendants ===== → English: gour === References === “gour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 “gour/1”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Noun === gour alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)