Asur

See also: asur, ásur, a sur, and às ùr

English

Noun

Asur pl (plural only)

1. A small Austroasiatic ethnic group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Proper noun

Asur

1. Synonym of Asuri (“the language of these people”).

Turkish

Etymology

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Proper noun

Asur

1. (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))

Derived terms

• Asurca
• Asurlu