duur

From Dutch duur.

• IPA^(key): /dyr/

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duur (attributive duur or (seldom) dure, comparative duurder, superlative duurste)

1. expensive

• → Fwe: dùrà
• → Kalanga: tura
• → Shona: -dhura

  → Chichewa: -dula

• → Xhosa: -duru

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /dyr/, [dyːr], [dyər]

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• Hyphenation: duur
• Rhymes: -yr
• Homophone: Duur

From Middle Dutch diere, dure, from Old Dutch diuri, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz. Doublet of dier.

duur (comparative duurder, superlative duurst)

1. expensive, dear

   De duurste Stradivarius is 'The Hammer' die in 2006 $3,5 miljoen opleverde.

   The most expensive Stradivarius is 'The Hammer', which went for $3.5 million in 2006.

• Afrikaans: duur
  • → Fwe: dùrà
  • → Kalanga: tura
  • → Shona: -dhura
    • → Chichewa: -dula
  • → Xhosa: -duru
• Berbice Creole Dutch: diru
• Javindo: dier
• Negerhollands: duur, dyer
• →? Sranan Tongo: diri
  • → Saramaccan: díi

From duren.

duur m (uncountable)

1. duration

• Negerhollands: duur

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duur

1. inflection of duren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Ruud, Urdu

duur ?

1. forest