Jura

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See also: jura, jurá, jūra, jūrā, and jūrą

English

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Etymology 1

Location of Jura (département) in France (sense 2)
Location of Jura (canton) in Switzerland (sense 3)

From French Jura, perhaps of Celtic origin.

Proper noun

Jura

  1. The Jura Mountains, a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1848, →OCLC:
      Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.
    • 1862, Author not identified, The Fir-Tree of the Jura, The Fir-Tree of the Jura and Other Stories, Oliphants Juvenile Series, page 7,
      On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.
  2. A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  3. A canton of Switzerland.
    Synonym: canton of Jura
    • 2004, Jan Oskar Engene, Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950, page 158:
      This parallel is the Jura conflict. While the cantonal structure in Switzerland largely follows linguistic lines, the predominantly French-speaking Jura had for a long time until recently been a part of the German-speaking canton of Bern.
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Etymology 2

Jura (island) in Scotland from the air

From Scottish Gaelic Diùra, from Old Norse Dýrey (literally animal island).

Proper noun

Jura

  1. An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
    • 1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275,
      Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph.
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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jura m

  1. Jura (a canton of Switzerland; capital: Delémont)
  2. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; capital: Lons-le-Saunier)

Czech

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jura m anim

  1. (dialectal) a diminutive of the male given name Jiří

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French

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of Gaulish *iuris (wooded mountain), commonly derived from Proto-Celtic *yor- (forest), but this remains speculative, as cognates of this Celtic root remain lacking.[1] More at Jura.

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Proper noun

Jura m

  1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
  2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
  3. Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
  4. Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

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References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

German

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Kanton Jura (sense 3)

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Etymology 1

From French Jura

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Proper noun

der Jura m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Juras)

  1. Jura Mountains (a mountain range on the border of France, Switzerland and Germany)
  2. the Jurassic
  3. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
  4. Jura (a region of France)
    Synonym: Kanton Jura
  5. Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom)
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin iūra, nominative plural of iūs (law, right).

Noun

Jura n pl (plural only)

  1. law (study)
    Ich habe Jura studiert.I studied law.
Usage notes
  • Used generally without article and without attributive adjectives, so no gender or number applies except from an etymological view.
  • Often used in Jura studieren.
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Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jura f

  1. Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
  2. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
  3. Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
  4. Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

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Further reading

  • Jura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Jura in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Jura”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Romanian

Etymology

From Jora. Compare Ukrainian Жура (Žura), Russian Жура (Žura), Polish Żura.

Proper noun

Jura f

  1. A village in Jura, Transnistria, Moldova
  2. A commune of Transnistria, Moldova

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

A hypocoristic form of Juraj.

Pronunciation 1

Proper noun

Jȕra m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English George

Pronunciation 2

Proper noun

Júra f

  1. (geology) Jurassic, the time period from 200 to 145 million years ago

Further reading

  • Jura”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024