urna

English

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā, “wool, thread”).

Noun

urna (plural urnas)

1. (Buddhism) A spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark.
   • 1916, “Notes on Chinese statuary”, in The Museum Journal‎^[1], volume 7, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, page 156:

     The ûrna or mark upon the forehead and the long pierced ear lobes so generally characteristic of Buddhist images are not present in this instance.

   • 2009, David Reed, The Rough Guide to Nepal‎^[2], page 107:

     Between the eyes is a curl of hair (urna), one of the identifying features of a Buddha, and the thing that looks like a nose is a miraculous light emanating from the urna (it can also be interpreted as the Nepali figure “one”, conveying the unity of all things).

Translations

dot

• Japanese: 白毫 (ja) (びゃくごう, byakugō)
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin urna.

Noun

urna

1. (historical) In ancient Rome, a liquid measurement of half an amphora, or a vessel of this size.
   • 1810, A description of the collection of ancient terracottas of the British Museum‎^[3], British Museum, No. XXXIX, page 22:

     A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna, which contained half the quantity of the amphora.

   • 1847, Francis Adams, The seven books of Paulus Ægeineta‎^[4], volume 3, The Sydenham Society, page 623:

     The congius was the 8th part of the amphora, and the 4th of the urna: it contained 6 sextarii.

   • 1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures‎^[5], page 89:

     It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

Anagrams

• Arun, ruan, uran-

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Noun

urna f (plural urnes)

1. urn
2. ballot box

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈur.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈuɾ.na]

Noun

urna f (plural urnes)

1. urn (vase)
2. poll, ballot box

Further reading

• “urna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Czech

Volební urna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurna]

Noun

urna f

1. urn

   urna s popelem ― urn with ashes

Derived terms

• volební urna (“ballot box”)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/
• Hyphenation: ùr‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urne)

1. urn, pot
2. ballot box

Anagrams

• runa

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Latin

urna sepulcrālis (a funerary urn)

Etymology

From ūrō (“burn, singe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/, [ˈʊrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.na/, [ˈurnä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

ūrna f (genitive ūrnae); first declension

1. urn, water jar; a vessel for drawing water
2. a voting urn, in which ballots were collected
3. a funerary urn; a receptacle for the ashes of the dead
4. a money jar
5. a liquid measure equal to half an amphora

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūrna	ūrnae
Genitive	ūrnae	ūrnārum
Dative	ūrnae	ūrnīs
Accusative	ūrnam	ūrnās
Ablative	ūrnā	ūrnīs
Vocative	ūrna	ūrnae

Derived terms

• ūrnālis
• ūrnārium
• ūrniger
• ūrnula

 

Descendants

• Asturian: urna
• Catalan: urna
• English: urn
• Esperanto: urno
• French: urne
• Georgian: ურნა (urna)

• Italian: urna
• Norwegian: urne (Bokmål), urne (Nynorsk)
• Portuguese: urna
• Russian: у́рна (úrna)
• Spanish: urna

References

• “urna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “urna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• urnen

Noun

urna f sg

1. definite feminine singular of urne

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

urna f sg

1. definite singular of urne

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyrna/

Noun

urna f (plural urne)

1. urn

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Polish

urna

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ur‧na

Noun

urna f

1. urn (a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person)
2. ballot box

Declension

Declension of urna

	singular	plural
nominative	urna	urny
genitive	urny	urn
dative	urnie	urnom
accusative	urnę	urny
instrumental	urną	urnami
locative	urnie	urnach
vocative	urno	urny

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuʁnɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾnɐ/
• Hyphenation: ur‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urnas)

1. ballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip)
2. urn (vessel for ashes of a deceased person)
3. (by extension) coffin (box in which a dead person is buried)
4. (archaic) a vase for water

Further reading

• Template:R:DAN

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

urna f (Cyrillic spelling урна)

1. urn

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾna/ [ˈuɾ.na]
• Hyphenation: ur‧na

Noun

urna f (plural urnas)

1. urn
2. poll; ballot box

Derived terms

• sondeo a pie de urna

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Swedish

Noun

urna c

1. urn

Declension

Declension of urna
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	urna	urnan	urnor	urnorna
Genitive	urnas	urnans	urnors	urnornas

Anagrams

• runa, uran