-ура
Bulgarian
Etymology
Ultimately, Latin -ūra (abstract noun suffix), -tūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [-ˈurɐ]
- Syllabification(key): -у‧ра
Suffix
-у́ра • (-úra)
- -ure, -cy; suffix forming abstract nouns from other nouns or from adjectives
- кандидат (kandidat) + -ура (-ura) → кандидату́ра (kandidatúra)
Derived terms
Bulgarian terms suffixed with -ура
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
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Suffix
-ура (Latin spelling -ura)
- suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a pejorative
See also
Ukrainian
Pronunciation
- -у́ра: IPA(key): [ ˈurɐ]
- -ура́: IPA(key): [ ʊˈra]
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ura. Compare Bulgarian and Russian -ура (-ura), Polish -ura.
Suffix
-у́ра • (-úra) f inan
- (unproductive) -ure, -cy; appended to nouns to form feminine inanimate abstract nouns, often collective in meaning
- автор (avtor) + -ура (-ura) → авту́ра (avtúra, “autors”, collective)
- апарат (aparat) + -ура (-ura) → апарату́ра (aparatúra, “apparatus”, collective)
Etymology 2
Etymology tree
From -ур (-ur) + -а (-a). Compare Serbo-Croatian -ура.
Suffix
-у́ра́ • (-úrá) m anim or f anim by sense (alternatively -юра)
- (unproductive) Appended to nouns to form animate nouns
- за- (za-) + мазати (mazaty) + -ура (-ura) → замазу́ра m anim or f anim (zamazúra, “draggle-tail, piggy-wiggy”, colloquial) (about a child)
- німець (nimecʹ) + -ура (-ura) → німчурá / німчу́ра (nimčurá, “Germans / a German”, low colloquial) (collective / masculine)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Suffix
-у́ра́ • (-úrá) m
- genitive/accusative singular of -ур (-ur)
References
- Лев Миха́йлович Полю́га [Lev Mykhailovych Poliuha] (2001), Словник українських морфем: близько 40 000 слів [Dictionary of Ukrainian morphemes: close to 40,000 words] (in Ukrainian), Львів [Lviv]: Світ [Svit], →ISBN, page 392
- “ур”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection][1]