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fur

See also: Fur, fur., für, fúr, and fûr

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fur

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Friulian.

English

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Furs (pelts)

Etymology 1

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From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare Old English fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶυ (pôu, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watches, protects”).

The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line, stuff, fill”), from the noun.

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Noun

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fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

  1. (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
  2. (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
  3. (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
    During the colonial period, Britain used Canada as a major source of furs.
  4. (countable) A garment made of fur.
  5. (uncountable) A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
    1. (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
    2. (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
    3. (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
    4. (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
  6. (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
  7. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
  8. (countable) A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
    • 2006, Shari Caudron, Who Are You People?:
      "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."
  9. (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
  10. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
  11. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
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Verb

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fur (third-person singular simple present furs, present participle furring, simple past and past participle furred)

  1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
  2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
    • 2015, Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons:
      The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.
  3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.
    Synonym: fur out
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Etymology 2

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Conjunction

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fur

  1. Pronunciation spelling of for.

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fur

  1. Pronunciation spelling of for.
    • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Longer Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 516:
      A’most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, to-morrow.

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Aromanian

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Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin fūrō, from Latin fūror. Compare Romanian fura, fur.

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Verb

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fur first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative furã, past participle furatã)

  1. to steal
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Etymology 2

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From Latin fūr. Compare archaic Daco-Romanian fur.

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Noun

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fur m (plural furi)

  1. thief, robber
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Catalan

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Etymology

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From Old Catalan for, from Latin forum. Doublet of fòrum, a learned borrowing.

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fur m (plural furs)

  1. (law) fuero
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Dalmatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

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fur

  1. to do
  2. to make

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  • Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000, page 310

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin forum.

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fur m (plural not attested)

  1. Only used in au fur et à mesure (“to an equitable extent”)

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see ferō). Cognate with Ancient Greek φώρ (phṓr).

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fūr m or f (genitive fūris); third declension

  1. A thief

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fūr fūrēs
Genitive fūris fūrum
Dative fūrī fūribus
Accusative fūrem fūrēs
Ablative fūre fūribus
Vocative fūr fūrēs
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References

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  • “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Preposition

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fur

  1. for

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fur/
  • Rhymes: -ur
  • Syllabification: fur

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fur f

  1. genitive plural of fura

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”).

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fur

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fura

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fur m (plural furi)

  1. (archaic) thief
    Synonyms: hoț, bandit
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Somali

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fur

  1. open

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Noun

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fur c (uncountable)

  1. pinewood
  2. (archaic) pine tree (in some areas chiefly about old trees)

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  • (wood): furu
  • (tree): tall (if a distinction is made between this and "fur", this will be used about younger trees), fura
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Noun

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fur

  1. Soft mutation of mur.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mur fur unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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