nur

nur (plural nurs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of knur.

• URN, run, urn

From Turkish nur, from Arabic نور (“light”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):

nur m (plural nure, definite nuri, definite plural nuret)

1. facial expression, face, appearance
2. dazzling beauty
3. outward appearance (of a person)

• nurbardhë
• nurmadh
• nursëz
• nurshëm
• nurzi

From Arabic نُور (nūr).

• Audio:

  (file)

nur (definite accusative nuru, plural nurlar)

1. (poetic) light

   Synonym: işıq

   Antonym: zülmət

   Üzündən nur saçır. ― His/her face shines with light.

   Qəbri nurla dolsun. ― Rest in peace. (literally, “May his/her grave be filled with light.”)

   Elm bir nur, cəhl zülmətdir. ― Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness.

• “nur” in Obastan.com.

From German nur.

• IPA^(key):

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: nur

nur

1. only, just
   • 1888, L. L. Zamenhof, Dua Libro de l' Lingvo Internacia‎:

     Se mi nur estus sana, mi estus tute kontenta.

     If only I would be healthy, I would be fully content.

• Ido: nur

From late Middle High German nuor, contracted from older niwer, newære, from Old High German niwāri, ni wāri (“were it not”). Cognate with Yiddish נאָר (nor), Dutch maar, Old English nǣre.

• IPA^(key): /nuːɐ̯/

• Audio (Germany):

  (file)

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːɐ̯

nur

1. only, just, merely, simply

   Synonyms: bloß, allein

   Nur reife Kirschen dürfen auf den Kuchen.

   Only ripe cherries may go on the cake.

   Du musst nur die Werte eingeben und den Rest macht der Computer.

   You just have to enter the values and the computer will do the rest.

2. ever; at all

   Synonyms: auch, immer, überhaupt

   Ich helfe dir, wo ich nur kann.

   I’ll help you wherever I can.

3. however, though

   Synonyms: allerdings, jedoch

   Wir könnten es versuchen. Nur wären die Risiken sehr hoch.

   We could try. The risks would be very high, however.

• nur mehr, nurmehr
• nur nicht
• nur noch
• nur zu

• → Esperanto: nur
  • Ido: nur

nur

1. (chiefly colloquial) but

   Synonym: aber

   Ich wär auf jeden Fall dabei, nur ich hab echt keine Zeit.

   I’d definitely come along, but I really don’t have the time.

• “nur” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “nur” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “nur”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Borrowed from Esperanto nur, German nur.

• IPA^(key): /nur/

nur

1. only, merely

• nura

From Arabic نُور (nūr).

nur (Jawi spelling نور, plural nur-nur, informal 1st possessive nurku, 2nd possessive nurmu, 3rd possessive nurnya)

1. light

   Synonym: cahaya

• “nur” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

núr (plural núr)

1. body

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

nury

Wikipedia ^pl

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nurъ／*norъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnur/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: nur
• Homophone: Nur

nur m animal

1. loon (any bird of the order Gaviiformes)
2. dive, plunge (jump into water)

• nur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nur in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• nury in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نور, from Arabic نُور (nūr).

nur m (plural nuri)

1. sex appeal

Univerbation of an (“in”) +‎ ur (“your”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuɾ/

nur (+ dative, triggers eclipsis of a vowel)

1. in your (formal and/or plural)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish نور, from Arabic نُور (nūr).

• IPA^(key): /nuɾ/

• Audio:

  (file)

nur (definite accusative nuru, plural nurlar)

1. light
2. (Islam) The Holy Light

• “nur”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3569b