UR

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

UR, Ur or ur may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

• A location in Final Fantasy III
• A race of aliens in Fading Suns, a role-playing game

Music

• "UR", pronounced "you are," a song from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
• UR/A Tear in the Open, a song from the album Just Be by DJ Tiësto
• UR (band), a satellite band of Secret Chiefs 3 from San Francisco, California
• Underground Resistance (band), a US techno music label
• Universal Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label
• UR, the eighth studio album by American singer Usher

Other media

• Ur, a novella by Stephen King
• UR (Unrated), used for a film not submitted for rating, or an uncut version of a film
• Sveriges Utbildningsradio, the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation

Language

• Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet
• ur (digraph), a digraph in Central Alaskan Yup'ik for /ʁʷ/, and in Pinyin for the trilled vowel /ʙ̝/
• Ur (root), a common root word in the Basque language
• Ur (rune) (ᚢ), a letter of the runic alphabets
• Ur-, a German prefix meaning "original or primitive"
• Underlying representation, in phonology
• Urdu language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "ur")
• "Your" or "you're" in text messaging

Places

• Ancient populated places:
  • Ur, an ancient city-state in southern Mesopotamia
    • Royal Game of Ur, ancient game boards
  • Ur of the Chaldees, or Ur Kaśdim, scriptural birthplace of Abraham
• Modern populated places:
  • Ur, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
  • Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales Département, France
  • Canton of Uri, Switzerland
  • Hay Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
• Ur, earliest hypothesized supercraton or continent

Science, technology, and mathematics

Vehicles

• Audi Ur-S4 / Ur-S6, prefix the original Audi S4 or Audi S6 automobiles, 1992-1997
• Universal Rocket, a family of Russian rockets developed by Khrunichev
• UrQuattro, prefix of the original Audi Quattro automobile, 1980-1991
• Ursaab, prefix of the original Saab automobile, 1949

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Ur, also called Ur/Web, a programming language
• UR Mark, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
• Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35, a Polish anti-tank rifle, codenamed "Ur"
• Unitary representation, in group theory

Universities

United States

• University of Richmond, Virginia
• University of Rochester, New York (state)
• University of Redlands, California

Other countries

• Universität Regensburg, Germany
• University of Regina, Canada
• Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico
• University of La Réunion, France
• University of La Rioja, Spain
• University of Rwanda

See also

• Urtext (disambiguation)