ure

== Translingual == === Etymology === Clipping of English Uru with e as a placeholder. === Symbol === ure (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Uru. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Uru terms == English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus. ==== Noun ==== ure (uncountable) (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) Use, practise, exercise. 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 [2] ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure ===== Derived terms ===== inure ==== Verb ==== ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured) (obsolete, ambitransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,[3] […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […] === Etymology 2 === From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus. ==== Noun ==== ure (plural ures) (rare) Synonym of aurochs. ===== Usage notes ===== Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)). ===== Related terms ===== aurochs (perhaps related) urus === Etymology 3 === ==== Contraction ==== ure (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are). === References === === Anagrams === ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue == Afrikaans == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈy.rə/ === Noun === ure plural of uur == Ainu == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ùꜛɾé/ === Noun === ure (Kana spelling ウレ) (anatomy) foot Synonym: cikiri == Ambai == === Alternative forms === uren ureŋ === Noun === ure eye == Danish == === Noun === ure n indefinite plural of ur == Eastern Arrernte == === Noun === ure fire === References === 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics. == Japanese == === Romanization === ure Rōmaji transcription of うれ == Latin == === Verb === ūre second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō == Māori == === Noun === ure penis == Middle Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French ore, from Latin hora. === Noun === ûre ? hour ==== Descendants ==== Dutch: uur (see there for further descendants) Limburgish: oer West Flemish: eure → Middle Low German: ūr, ūre Plautdietsch: Ua → Danish: ur → Saterland Frisian: Uure → Middle High German: ūre (ca. 1350, possibly through Low German) Alemannic German: Uur Bavarian: Uah Central Franconian: Uhr, Ouher Luxembourgish: Auer German: Uhr (see there for further descendants) → West Frisian: oere == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman *ure (compare continental Old French uevre), from Latin opera. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈiu̯r(ə)/ ==== Noun ==== ure (uncountable) (usually with in) use, habit, custom ===== Descendants ===== English: ure ===== References ===== “ūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== ure alternative form of eure === Etymology 3 === ==== Determiner ==== ure alternative form of oure (“our”) == Moriori == === Etymology === Cognate with Māori ure === Noun === ure penis Ka tē ki ta ure, whano ro ake, ka koti, ko Maru hōrō. ― When they reached the penis and attempted to cut it. ==== References ==== Deighton, Samuel (1889), “A Moriori Vocabulary”, in Appendices to the Journal of the House of Representatives == Old English == === Alternative forms === ūser — Northumbrian, Mercian, or poetic ūr, usser — Mercian === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. For development compare Old Norse órr. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈuː.re/ === Determiner === ūre our ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: oure English: our Geordie: wor Scots: oor, wir === Pronoun === ūre genitive of wē: ours, of us == Pali == === Alternative forms === === Noun === ure locative singular of uras (“breast”) == Paraujano == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /uˈɺe/ Rhymes: -e Syllabification: u‧re === Verb === ure 0 (stative) to be clean === References === Álvarez, José; Bravo, María (2008), “ure”, in Diccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language]‎[5], Maracaibo, Venezuela: University of Zulia, →ISBN, page 102. == Rapa Nui == === Noun === ure penis ==== Usage notes ==== Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term. == Rarotongan == === Noun === ure penis == Yola == === Determiner === ure alternative form of oor === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114 == Yoruba == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ū.ɾè/ === Noun === urè (Ekiti, zootomy) the thigh or leg of an animal; (especially) when cooked Synonym: tete == Zaghawa == === Noun === ure valley, wadi === References === Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad