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tur¹

  • /tʊə/ UK
  • /tʊɹ/ US

Sounds like tour · Rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.

noun turs

  1. Any member of the species Capra caucasica (West Caucasian tur) or Capra cylindricornis (East Caucasian tur) of wild goats native to Caucasus. Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.

Tur²

Where it comes from

Two main origins:

* Borrowed from Catalan Tur, probably a topographic surname from tur (“tufa, porous limestone”).

* Borrowed from Polish Tur, from the nickname tur (“aurochs”).

proper noun Turs

  1. A surname.

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noun type of wild goat

Русскийтур tur

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MLA

"tur." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tur. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

tur. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tur

Chicago

"tur." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tur.

BibTeX
@misc{tur_2026,
  title = {tur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}