See Ur on Wiktionary
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"ipa": "[ʔu(ː)ɐ̯]"
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},
{
"ipa": "[ʔu(ː)ɐ̯]"
},
{
"audio": "De-Ur.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/25/De-Ur.ogg/De-Ur.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/De-Ur.ogg",
"tags": [
"Germany",
"Berlin"
]
},
{
"homophone": "Uhr"
}
],
"word": "Ur"
}
{
"categories": [
"Low German entries with incorrect language header",
"Low German lemmas",
"Low German neuter nouns",
"Low German nouns",
"Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Mecklenburg Low German",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Western Pomeranian Low German"
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Uren",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "Uren"
},
"expansion": "Ur n (plural Uren)",
"name": "nds-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "Mecklenburgisch",
"3": "Western Pomeranian LG"
},
"expansion": "(Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "Low German",
"lang_code": "nds",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "ear",
"word": "Ohr"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of Ohr (“ear”)"
],
"links": [
[
"Ohr",
"Ohr#Low_German"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/uːɾ/"
}
],
"word": "Ur"
}
{
"categories": [
"Low German entries with incorrect language header",
"Low German lemmas",
"Low German neuter nouns",
"Low German nouns",
"Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*ūraz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ūraz"
]
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ūraz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ūraz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *ūraz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Urs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "Urs"
},
"expansion": "Ur n (plural Urs)",
"name": "nds-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "GLG"
},
"expansion": "(German Low German)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "Low German",
"lang_code": "nds",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"aurochs"
],
"links": [
[
"aurochs",
"aurochs"
]
],
"tags": [
"German-Low-German",
"neuter"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/uːɾ/"
}
],
"word": "Ur"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "Ur f",
"name": "es-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish feminine nouns",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish proper nouns",
"Spanish terms with historical senses",
"Spanish uncountable proper nouns",
"es:Bible",
"es:Former polities"
],
"glosses": [
"Ur"
],
"links": [
[
"Ur",
"Ur#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) Ur"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"historical"
]
}
],
"word": "Ur"
}
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