English

Noun

cur ‎(plural curs)

1. (dated or humorous) A contemptible or inferior dog.
   • 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 2, scene 4

     "you have many enemies, that know not why they are so, but, like to village-curs, bark when their fellows do."

   • 1897, Joseph Conrad, “II”, in An Outpost of Progress:

     Makola, a civilized nigger, was very neat in his person. He threw the soapsuds skilfully over a wretched little yellow cur he had, then turning his face to the agent's house, he shouted from the distance, "All the men gone last night!" (...)

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 25

     "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur. You lie down on the ground and ask people to trample on you."

2. (dated or humorous) A detestable person.
   • 1613, Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII, Act 1, scene 1

     "This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I have not the power to muzzle him."

Derived terms

• curdog

Translations

See also

• bitsa, bitser
• mongrel
• mutt

Anagrams

• cru
• RUC

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin culus. Compare Romanian cur.

Alternative forms

• curu

Noun

cur

1. (slang, referring to the anus) ass

Etymology 2

From Latin currō. Compare Romanian cure, cur (modern curge, curg).

Alternative forms

• curu

Verb

cur

1. I run.
2. I flow.

Derived terms

• curari/curare

Etymology 3

From Latin cūrō. Compare archaic/regional Romanian cura, cur.

Alternative forms

• curu

Verb

cur ‎(past participle curatã)

1. I clean.

Related terms

• curari/curare
• curat

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin cārus.

Alternative forms

• cuor, kuor

Adjective

cur m ‎(feminine cuora)

1. dear, beloved

Etymology 2

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore, French coeur, Old Portuguese cor, Old Spanish cuer.

Noun

cur

1. heart

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʊɾˠ]

Noun

cur m ‎(genitive as substantive cuir, genitive as verbal noun curtha)

1. verbal noun of cuir
2. sowing, planting; tillage
3. burial
4. setting, laying
5. course; round
6. (of implements) set

Declension

As substantive

As verbal noun

Mutation

References

• "cur" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Alternative forms

• qūr, quūr, quōr older spelling
• quur, cor rare

Etymology

From Old Latin quūr, quōr, from Proto-Italic *kʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷōr, having undergone pre-resonant and monosyllabic lengthening from *kʷor ‎(“where”), from *kʷos ‎(“interrogative determiner”) +‎ *-r ‎(“adverbial suffix”). For similar lengthening effect, compare to *bʰōr. For other Proto-Indo-European cognates, compare:

• Sanskrit कर्हि ‎(kárhi, “when”), Proto-Germanic *hwar ‎(“when”) < *kʷor
• Old English hwǣr ‎(“where”), Old High German hwār ‎(“where”) < *kʷēr
• Albanian kur ‎(“when”), Lithuanian kur̃ ‎(“where, whither”), Armenian ուր ‎(ur, “where”) < *kʷur

See also quirquir ‎(“wherever(?)”).^[1][2]

Adverb

cūr ‎(not comparable)

1. why, for what reason, wherefore, to what purpose, from what motive

   Cur in terra iaces?‎

   Why are you lying on the ground?

   • Vergilius, Aeneis; Book XI, from line 424

     Cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus?

     Why before the trumpet (of war), fear seizes your limbs?

Derived terms

• cūr nōn

References

• cur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CUR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cur”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • how came it that...: quid causae fuit cur...?
    
• “cūr” on page 519/1-2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cūr”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 155-156
2. ↑ “kur̃” in Harold Herman Bender's A Lithuanian Etymological Index. Princeton University Press, 1921.

Lojban

Rafsi

cur

1. rafsi of curnu.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cuirid, from older fo·ceird, do·cuirethar.

Verb

cur

1. put

   Cur y muc shen magh hoshiaght.‎ ― Put that pig out first.

2. give

Derived terms

• cur ayns kishtey ‎(“box, crate”, verb)

Mutation

References

• “1 cuirid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin culus.

Noun

cur

1. (slang) **** (anus)

Old Irish

Noun

cur m

1. Alternative form of caur ‎(“hero, warrior”)

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin culus. Compare Italian culo, French cul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kur/

Noun

cur n ‎(plural cururi)

1. (anatomy, slang, vulgar, referring to the anus) ****

   O să-mi bag pula în curul tău.‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Synonyms

• anus
• dos
• fund
• popou
• șezut

Derived terms

• curist

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cur m ‎(genitive singular cuir, no plural)

1. verbal noun of cuir
2. placing, setting, sending, sowing
3. laying, pouring
4. falling of snow, raining
5. throwing

Derived terms

• ath-chur ‎(“transplant”)
• eadar-chur ‎(“interjection, interruption”)

Mutation

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9