UR
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UR, Ur or ur may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Gaming
[edit]- A location in Final Fantasy III
- A race of aliens in Fading Suns, a role-playing game
- Royal Game of Ur, an ancient board game
Music
[edit]- "UR", pronounced "you are", a song from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
- "U R", a song by Monsta X from the EP Follow: Find You
- "U R", a song by Taeyeon from the EP I
- "Ur", a song by SZA from the EP Z
- "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 the U.S. city of San Francisco, California
- Underground Resistance (band), a U.S. techno music label
- Universal Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label
Other media
[edit]- Ur, a novella by Stephen King
- UR (Unrated), used for a film not submitted for rating, or an uncut version of a film
- UR Cristiano, the YouTube channel of association footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
- Sveriges Utbildningsradio, the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Language
[edit]- Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet
- Ur (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
- 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 "primeval" (seldom also "primitive") or even simply "original"
- Underlying representation, in phonology
- Urdu language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "ur")
- "you're" (you are) or "your" in text messaging
Places
[edit]- Ancient populated places:
- Ur, an ancient city-state in southern Mesopotamia
- 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
- Hayy Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
Religion and esotericism
[edit]Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]- Ur, a continent that formed 3,100 million years ago
- Ur, a programming language
- UR Mark, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
- Ur, a Polish anti-tank rifle
- Unitary representation, in group theory
- Ur, an obsolete symbol for the element Uranium
Vehicles
[edit]- 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
Universities
[edit]United States
[edit]- University of Richmond, in Virginia
- University of Rochester, in New York
- University of Redlands, in California
Other countries
[edit]- Universität Regensburg, Germany
- University of Regina, Canada
- Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico
- University of La Réunion, France
- University of La Rioja, Spain
- University of Rwanda
Other meanings
[edit]- UR, the IATA code of Uganda Airlines
- Universal Robina, food and beverage company in the Philippines
- Ulster Resistance, an Ulster Loyalist paramilitary group founded by members of the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) against the Anglo-Irish Treaty.