aur

aur m (plural aurs)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of or

• “aur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Finnic *audër, possibly of Baltic origin (compare Lithuanian šiaurė (“north”)). Cognate to Finnish auer (“haze”).

aur (genitive auru, partitive auru)

1. steam

Declension of aur (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aur	aurud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	auru
genitive			aurude
partitive		auru	aure aurusid
illative		auru aurusse	aurudesse auresse
inessive		aurus	aurudes aures
elative		aurust	aurudest aurest
allative		aurule	aurudele aurele
adessive		aurul	aurudel aurel
ablative		aurult	aurudelt aurelt
translative		auruks	aurudeks aureks
terminative		auruni	aurudeni
essive		auruna	aurudena
abessive		auruta	aurudeta
comitative		auruga	aurudega

From Latin aurum. Compare Romansch aur, Venetan oro, Italian oro, Dalmatian jaur, Romanian aur, French or.

aur m

1. gold

From Old Norse aurr, from Proto-Germanic *auraz.

aur m

1. gravel bank, gravel, rough sand, dry gravel soil, pebble in fields

• IPA^(key): /øyːr/
• Rhymes: -øyːr

From Old Norse aurr (“mud”), from Proto-Germanic *auraz.

aur m (genitive singular aurs, nominative plural aurar)

1. mud, mire

Declension of aur
m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aur	aurinn	aurar	aurarnir
accusative	aur	aurinn	aura	aurana
dative	auri / aur	aurnum	aurum	aurunum
genitive	aurs	aursins	aura	auranna

Somehow from Old Norse eyrir (“an ounce (of silver); money”).

aur m (genitive singular aurs, nominative plural aurar)

1. (money) money

Declension of aur
m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aur	aurinn	aurar	aurarnir
accusative	aur	aurinn	aura	aurana
dative	auri / aur	aurnum	aurum	aurunum
genitive	aurs	aursins	aura	auranna

• margur verður af aurum api

• eyrir

From Malay aur, from Proto-Malayic *haur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qauʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *qauʀ.

aur (first-person possessive aurku, second-person possessive aurmu, third-person possessive aurnya)

1. bamboo

• bambu
• buluh

From Proto-Malayic *haur, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qauʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *qauʀ.

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (hāur).

• IPA^(key): /aur/
• Rhymes: -aur, -ur
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ä.ʊ(r) -o(r) -o̞(r)]

aur (Jawi spelling اءور, plural aur-aur, informal 1st possessive aurku, 2nd possessive aurmu, 3rd possessive aurnya)

1. bamboo

   Synonyms: bambu, buluh

• Indonesian: aur

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

From Old Norse aurr, from Proto-Germanic *auraz.

• IPA^(key): /æʉ̯r/, /œʉ̯r/

aur m (definite singular auren, uncountable)

1. (collective) a mix between gravel, coarse sand

• øyr

• “aur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “aur” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• rau, rua, u-ar, U-ar, ura

From Old Occitan aur, from Latin aurum.

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aur m (uncountable)

1. gold (metal)

aur m

1. accusative singular of aurr

From Latin aurum.

aur m (oblique plural aurs, nominative singular aurs, nominative plural aur)

1. gold (metal)

• Occitan: aur

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aurum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 1019

Chemical element
Au
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Inherited from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ur/

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aur n (uncountable)

1. gold

• auri
• aurar
• auriu
• auros

• or (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• ôr (Surmiran)

From Latin aurum.

aur m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) gold

From Old Norse ørr, from Proto-Germanic *arwaz.

aur

1. The mark left by a wound

Chemical element
Au
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From Middle Welsh eur, from Proto-Brythonic *ėür, from Vulgar Latin from Latin aureus (“golden”, adjective). The vowel au (/aɨ̯/) must have undergone internal i-affection, showing that this word is derived from the adjective aureus, not the noun aurum, which gave the now archaic synonym awr (not to be confused with awr (“hour”) from hōra).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aɨ̯r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ai̯r/

aur m (usually uncountable, plural eurau)

1. gold

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

1. golden (made of gold)
2. gold (in colour)
3. (figurative) golden

• euraid (“golden”)
• euro (“to gild”)

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