Ur

Ur, or ur may refer to:Ur, an ancient city in southern MesopotamiaHayy Ur, a neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, IraqÚr , a letter of the Ogham alphabetUr (rune) ᚢ, a letter of the runic alphabetsRoyal Game of Ur, two game boards found in Royal Tombs of Ur and dating from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BCUr (continent), the first known continentUr-, an English and German prefix, meaning original, primitiveProto-World language, also called "Ur"Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales département in south-western FranceA codename for the Polish Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 anti-tank rifle
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Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be one of the earliest known civilizations in world history. Because of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, and named Tell el-Mukayyar , near the city of Nasiriyah south of Baghdad.
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Úr is the Irish name of the eighteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, , meaning "clay", "earth", "soil". In Old Irish, the letter name was also written Úir. Its phonetic value is [u] or [u:].
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Ur- or ur- is a German prefix, in some instances loaned into English (where it usually retains the hyphen when combined with another noun), with a meaning of "original", "primitive" or "original version". A well-known example is ur-Hamlet, used by literary scholars to denote an anonymously authored lost play of the 16th century, the story of which was adapted by Shakespeare for the plot of his play The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
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Noun
1. an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Sumer

primal, primeval, ancient, initial, placed at the beginning, first

n. tumor, tumour [Brit.], wen, neoplasm, growth, excrescence, tuberosity, vegetation

(n.)
Alt. of Ure