different between urn vs urs

English

Alternative forms

• urne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)n
• Homophone: earn

Noun

urn (plural urns)

1. A vase with a footed base.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […] found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

   • His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.
2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4. (figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.
5. (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
6. (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

Translations

Verb

urn (third-person singular simple present urns, present participle urning, simple past and past participle urned)

1. (transitive) To place in an urn.

Further reading

• urn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Nur, nur, run

Dutch

Alternative forms

• urne

Etymology

Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rn/
• Hyphenation: urn
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

urn f (plural urnen, diminutive urntje n)

1. funerary urn

   Synonym: asvaas

2. any other footed vase

Derived terms

• urnenmuur
• urnenveld

English

Pronoun

urs

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) yours

Anagrams

• R Us, RUS, Rus, Rus', Rus., SRU, Sur., sur-, usr

Danish

Noun

urs c or n

1. indefinite genitive singular of ur

Middle English

Pronoun

urs

1. Alternative form of oures (“ours”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• ors

Etymology

From Latin ursus.

Noun

urs m (oblique plural urs, nominative singular urs, nominative plural urs)

1. bear (animal)

Descendants

• Middle French: ours
  • French: ours

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h???t?os (“bear”).

Noun

urs m (plural ur?i)

1. bear

Declension

Derived terms

• ursar
• ursoi
• ursoaic?
• ursoaie
• ursule?

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) uors

Etymology

From Latin ursus, from Proto-Indo-European *h???t?os (“bear”).

Noun

urs m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bear

Coordinate terms

• ursa

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???

Noun

urs

1. indefinite genitive singular of ur
2. indefinite genitive plural of ur

Anagrams

• sur