tur
Translingual
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /tʊɹ/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
- Homophone: tour
Noun
tur (plural turs)
- Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90:
- Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.
Translations
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
|
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech tur, from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtur]
Declension
Related terms
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuːr/, [tˢuɐ̯ˀ]
- Rhymes: -ur
Noun
Inflection
Further reading
tur on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tur,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).
Declension
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | tur | thur | tura; thura² | |
Vocative | thur | tura | ||
Genitive | tuire | tura | tur | |
Dative | tur; thur¹ |
thur | tura; thura² | |
Comparative | níos tuire | |||
Superlative | is tuire |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tur | thur | dtur |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
Further reading
- “tur”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tur”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 766
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tur”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Latvian
Etymology 1
Traditionally, tur is derived from kur (“where”) by analogy with pairs like kas (“who, what”) : tas (“that”), kā (“how”) : tā (“thus, like that”). A more recent suggestion is that tur may come from Proto-Baltic *tur, from the zero grade *tr̥ of Proto-Indo-European *ter-, the source of several nouns, adverbs or prepositions meaning “through,” “across,” “away”: German durch (“through”) (compare Old High German duruh, from *tr̥-kʷe), Breton treu (“beyond”), dre (“through”) (*tre), Latin trāns (“over, across, beyond”). The meaning in Latvian would have been changed to “there” under the influence of kur.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tùɾ]
Adverb
tur
- used to indicate an unnamed location relatively far from the speaker; there, in that place
- kas tur ir? ― who is there?
- tur augšā ― up there
- redzi, tur tā ir bumbiere!... bet tur - divas ābeles! ― look, there, that is a pear tree!... and there - two apple trees!
- used to refer back to a previously mentioned location, or to a place to be mentioned in a following subordinate clause; there
- mašīna iebrauca pagalmā un tur apstājās ― the car came into the courtyard and stopped there
- zēnam negribējās iet atpakaļ uz māju; tur tagad tumšs... ― the boy didn't want to go back to the house; there it was now dark...
- arī es esmu tur, kur stāvēja mājas ― I, too, am there, where the houses used to be
- used to refer to a situation, state, event, which is connected, often indirectly, to the speaker
- droši vien Toms arī labi pelna, bet viesnīcu dzīve un ceļojumi ir dārgi; tur maz kas var palikt pāri... ― Toms probably earns well (= enough money), but a life of hotels and trips is expensive; there only little (money) can be left...
- māt, neej tumsā, neej, māt! tur nav neviena paša klāt... ― mother, don't go in the dark, don't go, mother! there is nobody present there...
- used to indicate an unnamed location, relatively far from the speaker, as the target of motion; there, thither, to that place
- viņi gāja tur visi trīs, kā toreiz, šurpu uz ciemu nākot ― they went there, all three of them, like that time, coming here to the village
- laiva peldēja nevis tur, kur es gribēju, uz augšu... bet slīdēja pa straumi lēni lejup ― the ship did not go there, where I wanted, upstream... but slid slowly down the stream
Particle
tur
- used to reinforce the meaning of a word or utterance
- bet, vai par augstāko kungu skaitās Varšava vai Pēterburga... kāda gan tur atšķirība? ― but, if (we) count Warsaw or (St.) Petersburg as (our) supreme lord... what difference there (= does it make)?
- savādi ar tiem pieradumiem: rokas un kājas pašas kust, kur vienmēr kustējušas, ka tur vai pasaules gals ― strage, those habits: the hands and legs move by themselves where they always moved, that there (= even if it is) the end of the world
Synonyms
- (of target of motion): turp
Etymology 2
See turēt
Verb
tur
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tur”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tur/
Norwegian Bokmål
Derived terms
References
- “tur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
References
- “tur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Oroqen
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese tudo and Spanish todo and Kabuverdianu tudu.
Polish

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tur/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ur
- Syllabification: tur
- Homophone: Tur
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Polish tur.
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Romanian
Declension
Etymology 2
Unknown. Probably borrowed from Serbo-Croatian tur. Other less likely theories suggest a link with stur, or Latin thylacus, from Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos).
Declension
See also
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tûːr/
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوتورمق (oturmak, “to sit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tûːr/
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tȗrъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *taurás, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtur/
Noun
tur m inan (genitive singular tura, nominative plural tury, genitive plural turov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Derived terms
- turí
References
- “tur”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Sumerian
Sundanese
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French tour, used in Swedish since 1639 in the sense of a journey, since 1679 in the sense of a sequence of events (to take turns), since 1809 in the sense of luck (events that luckily go your way).
Pronunciation
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ʉːr
Noun
tur c
- a tour; a journey through a building, estate, country etc.
- John tog en tur med bilen för att titta på hela stan innan han bestämde sig för att bosätta sig i just den stadsdelen.
- John took a tour in the car to look at the whole city before he decided to settle in that particular neighborhood.
- a bus or train service on a specific line, which leaves at a specific time
- De drog in de två sista turerna på söndagskvällarna eftersom ändå ingen åkte med bussen vid den tiden.
- They canceled the last two journeys on Sunday afternoons, as nobody took the bus at that time anyway.
- a dance; an instance of dancing
- Vi tog två turer på dansgolvet innan vi gick hem.
- We danced two dances before we went home.
- a figure in a dance
- I square dance ropas turerna ut.
- In square dance, the figures are called.
- a turn; the chance to use an item shared in sequence with others
- Nu har du fått ha den jättelänge, så nu är det min tur.
- Now you've had it for a really long time, now it's my turn.
- Det är din tur.
- It's your move.
- (uncountable) luck
- Du måste ha väldig tur om du ska vinna lotterier.
- You've got to have a lot of luck if you're to win the lottery.
Declension
Declension of tur | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tur | turen | turer | turerna |
Genitive | turs | turens | turers | turernas |
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “luck”): otur
References
Anagrams
Wolof
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 256