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From Latin ūrus. Doublet of ure (“aurochs”).

urus (plural uri or uruses)

  1. The aurochs.
    • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [_i.e._, Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
      Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 123:
      Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess worshipped over an immense area of the ancient world.

urus (plural uruses)

  1. Alternative spelling of urs.

From Malay urus, from Classical Malay hurus, urus.

urus

  1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
  2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)

urus

  1. obsolete form of furasta

Mutated forms of urus

radical eclipsis with _h_-prothesis with _t_-prothesis
urus n-urus hurus not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

According to Julius Caesar, of Celtic origin. Perhaps indirectly related to Proto-Germanic *ūraz.

ūrus m (genitive ūrī); second declension

  1. aurochs (Bos primigenius)

Second-declension noun.

urus (Jawi spelling اوروس)

  1. to manage (to direct or be in charge)
  2. to manage (to handle or control a situation or job)