UR

Look up Ur, ur, ur-, or úr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Ur or ur may refer to:

In toponymy:

• Ur, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia
  • Royal Game of Ur, two game boards found in Royal Tombs of Ur and dating from the First Dynasty of Ur, before 2600 BC
• Hay Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
• Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southern France
• Ur (continent), the name given to the first known continent in tectonics

In typography:

• Úr ᚒ, a letter of the Ogham alphabet
• Ur (rune) ᚢ, a letter of the runic alphabets

Ur-, a German prefix, meaning "original, primitive", see

• Proto-World language
• Urheimat
• Ursprache
• Urreligion
• Urmonotheismus

In popular culture:

• A location in Final Fantasy III
• "UR", a song by DJ Tiësto from his album Just Be
• A codename for the Polish Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 anti-tank rifle
• A race of aliens in Fading Suns, a role-playing game
• A novella written by Stephen King and exclusively released for the Amazon Kindle

UR or ur is an abbreviation for:

• Canton of Uri, Switzerland
• UL Recognized, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
• Underground Resistance, a US techno music label
• Underlying representation in phonology
• Urdu language (ISO 639 alpha-2, ur)
• Sveriges Utbildningsradio, the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation
• The first person shooter PC game Unreal or the series of games
• "Your" or "you're", especially in internet slang or SMS language
• "Ur-SAAB", meaning the original SAAB automobile
• "Ur-Quattro", meaning the original Audi Quattro, 1980-1991
• Universal Rocket, a Russian rocket developed by Khrunichev

UR is an abbreviation for several universities:

• University of Regina, in Canada
• Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico
• University of Richmond, in the United States
• University of Rochester, in the United States
• University of Rhode Island, in the United States

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