asur

Borrowed from Hindi असुर (asur).

asur (plural asurs)

1. (India, Hinduism) Alternative spelling of Asura.
2. (India, derogatory) An evil person.
   • 2021, Snigdhenu Bhattacharya, The Wire‎:

     This use of the word to portray the Bengal chief minister as the biggest challenger to the country’s two most powerful men, and especially their depiction as an asur or demon, did not go down well with supporters of the country’s ruling force, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).

From Hebrew אָסוּר (asúr).

asur (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of assur

asur

1. Obsolete spelling of azure.
   • 1869, Frederick James Furnivall, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert).: A Booke of Percedence, page 96:

     Sable, goulis, asur, vert, perpure  […]

   • 1896, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Society of Antiquaries of London, Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition, Burlington House, 1894, page 67:

     ... asur a griffin passant […]

   • 1904, The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, page 184:

     94. RYSELEY OF [ ] beryth to his crest […] a wreeth silver and asur manteled asur […]

   • 2022 July 5, Louise D’Arcens, Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, Medieval literary voices: Embodiment, materiality and performance, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

     Thomas Wall's book of crests of 1530 records that 'Trevylion of Devon beryth to his crest two armes asur the handes silver holdyng a pellet on the […]

• -saur, Sura, USRA, 'saur, sura, USAR, Ruas, URAs, saur

asur m (plural asures)

1. lapis lazuli (blue gem)

   Synonym: lapislázuli

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “asur”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

asur

1. to push

From Hebrew אסור (asur).

asur (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אסור)

1. prohibited (by religious law)

• mutar

• Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “asur”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “asúr”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 64
• Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “asur”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 47

Borrowed from Middle English asure, from Old French azur, in turn borrowed from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward), borrowed from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈasɨ̞r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈasɪr/
• Rhymes: -asɨ̞r

asur (feminine singular asur, plural asur, not comparable)

1. azure

• asurfaen (“lapis lazuli”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “asur”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies