fur

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare Old English fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶυ (pôu, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watches, protects”).

The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line; stuff; fill”), from the noun.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɜː(ɹ)/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [fɜ̝ː]
• (General American) enPR: fûr, IPA^(key): /fɚ/, [fɝ]
  • (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)
• Homophone: fir

fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

1. The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
2. The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
   • Lady M. W. Montagu

     wrapped up in my furs

3. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
4. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
   1. A thick pile of fabric.
   2. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
   3. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
   4. The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
5. (heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.
6. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
7. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
   • 2006, Shari Caudron, Who Are You People?

     "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."

8. (vulgar, slang) Pubic hair.
9. (vulgar, slang) Sexual attractiveness.

fur (third-person singular simple present furs, present participle furring, simple past and past participle furred)

1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
   • 2015, Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons

     The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.

3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.

   Synonym: fur out

• furred

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for, representing African American Vernacular English.

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for, representing African American Vernacular English.

• urf

From Vulgar Latin fūrō, from Latin fūror. Compare Romanian fura, fur.

• furu, afur, afuru

fur (third-person singular present indicative furã, past participle furatã)

1. I steal.

• furari / furare
• furat
• furtu

• afum, agudescu, ahulescu, apuc, cãlescu, ciun, gulishinedz, mut, sec, umflu

From Latin fūr. Compare archaic Daco-Romanian fur.

• furu, afur, afuru

fur m (plural furi)

1. thief, robber

• furcudar, haramiu, chisãgi, caceac

fur m (plural furs)

1. fuero

fur

1. Alternative form of facro

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /fyʁ/

fur m (plural not attested)

1. Only used in au fur et à mesure (“to an equitable extent”)

• “fur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”) (see ferō). Cognate with Ancient Greek φώρ (phṓr).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːr/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fur/

• Audio (Classical)

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fūr m (genitive fūris); third declension

1. A thief

Third declension.

• fūrtīvus (adjective)
• furtum (noun)
• fūrtim (adverb)
• fūror (verb)

• Aromanian: fur
• Italian: furo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fura, furó
  • Occitan: fura
• Romanian: fur
• ⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis (“thief”)
  • Old French: fuiron
  • Old Portuguese: foron
    • Galician: furón
    • Portuguese: furão
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: hurón
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)
  • Italian: furetto
  • Old French: furet
    • French: furet
    • → Middle English: furet, ferret
      • Scots: ferret
      • English: ferret
  • Romansch: furet

• fur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”)

• IPA^(key): [fur]

fur

1. first-person singular present indicative of fura
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of fura

fur m (plural furi)

1. (archaic) thief

• hoț, bandit

• fura
• furt

fur

1. open

• fure

• IPA^(key): /fʉːr/
• Rhymes: -ʉːr

fur c (uncountable)

1. pinewood
2. (archaic) pine tree (in some areas chiefly about old trees)

• (wood): furu
• (tree): tall (if a distinction is made between this and "fur", this will be used about younger trees), fura

• fura
• fure
• furu

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /vɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /viːr/

fur

1. Soft mutation of mur.