dur

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dur"

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Translingual

Symbol

dur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dii.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dii terms

English

Etymology 1

From German Dur, from Latin dūrus (“hard, firm, vigorous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

dur (not comparable)

1. (music, obsolete) Major; in the major mode.

   C dur

Further reading

• “dur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Of imitative/exclamatory origin, similar to der, duh, derp, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /də(ɹ)/

Interjection

dur

1. Alternative form of duh (“indicating stupidity etc.”).
   • 2015, Liberty Kratz-Gullickson, Write Like a Girl, page 29:

     "Well, dur. I'm not that stupid, I knew that."

See also

• dur-brain

Etymology 3

Noun

dur (plural dur or durs)

1. (Belize, slang) A marijuana dealer.
   • 2023 June 13, Jules Vasquez, “Who Put Marybeth's Fraudulent Approval on Chester's Desk?”, in 7 News Belize‎:

     He began to tell me that Marybeth is accused or it is alleged she is one of the dur in Crooked Tree.

Anagrams

• Urd, rud, urd, Rud, RUD, Dru

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• duro

Etymology

Akin to Catalan dur, from Latin dūrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: dur
• Rhymes: -u(ɾ)

Adjective

dur (plural durs)

1. hard

References

• “duro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دور (dūr).

Adjective

Other scripts

Cyrillic		дур
Arabic		دور

dur (comparative daha dur, superlative ən dur)

1. (Classical Azerbaijani) far

Further reading

• “dur” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdu]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈduɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -u(ɾ)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin dūrus.

Adjective

dur (feminine dura, masculine plural durs, feminine plural dures)

1. hard (resistant to pressure)

   Antonym: tou

2. difficult

   Synonym: difícil

   Antonym: fàcil

Derived terms

• aigua dura
• anar dur
• cap dur
• disc dur
• durament
• durbec
• duròmetre
• endurir
• ou dur
• pell dura

Related terms

• duresa
• durícia

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin dūcere, from Proto-Italic *doukō, from Proto-Indo-European *déwketi, from the root *dewk-.

Verb

dur (first-person singular present duc, first-person singular preterite duguí, past participle dut)

1. (transitive) to carry

   Synonym: portar

2. (transitive) to bring

   Synonym: portar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of dur (second conjugation, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			dur
gerund			duent
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dut		duta
		plural		duts		dutes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	duc	duus, dus	duu, du	duem	dueu	duen
	imperfect	duia	duies	duia	dúiem	dúieu	duien
	future	duré	duràs	durà	durem	dureu	duran
	preterite	duguí	dugueres	dugué	duguérem	duguéreu	dugueren
	conditional	duria	duries	duria	duríem	duríeu	durien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	dugui	duguis	dugui	duguem	dugueu	duguin
	imperfect	dugués	duguessis	dugués	duguéssim	duguéssiu	duguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	duu, du	dugui	duguem	dueu	duguin
	negative (no)	—	no duguis	no dugui	no duguem	no dugueu	no duguin

In Balearic, second person plural present indicative is duis, first person plural present indicative is duim.

Derived terms

• dur a plaça
• dur a terme

Related terms

• abduir
• conduir
• deduir
• duta
• eduir
• induir
• introduir
• produir
• reduir
• seduir
• subduir
• traduir

Further reading

• “dur”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dur”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “dur” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Dur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdur]
• Hyphenation: dur

Noun

dur n (indeclinable)

1. (music) major

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• duor

Etymology

From Latin dāre.

Verb

dur (first-person singular present da, past participle dut)

1. to give

Danish

Etymology

From German Dur, from Latin durus (“hard”).

Noun

dur

1. (music) major

Antonyms

• mol

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dūrus.

Adjective

dur (feminine dura, masculine plural durs, feminine plural dures) (ORB, broad)

1. hard

   Antonym: dox

References

• dur in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• dur in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin dūrus.

Pronunciation

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /dyʁ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /d͡zʏʁ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

Adjective

dur (feminine dure, masculine plural durs, feminine plural dures)

1. hard, tough (difficult to penetrate)
2. hard (not soft)
3. hard, tough (not easy, difficult)
4. harsh (e.g. harsh conditions)
5. (art) harsh (of a penstroke)

Derived terms

• à la dure
• avoir la peau dure
• avoir la vie dure
• c'est quand le jeu devient dur que les durs commencent à jouer
• croire dur comme fer
• disque dur
• drogue dure
• dur à cuire
• dur de la feuille
• dur d'oreille
• dur en affaires
• durement
• dureté
• eau dure
• en dur
• palais dur
• pur et dur
• science dure
• signe dur

Adverb

dur

1. hard

   travailler dur ― to work hard

Noun

dur m (plural durs)

1. firmness, solidity

Noun

dur m (plural durs, feminine dure)

1. hard case (tough person)

Further reading

• “dur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dru