UR, Ur or ur may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

  • Ur, a fictional village in Final Fantasy III
  • Royal Game of Ur, an ancient board game

Music

General

  • UR (band), a satellite band of Secret Chiefs 3
  • Underground Resistance, a US musical collective
  • Universal Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label

Songs

  • "UR" ("you are"), a song from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, by Alanis Morissette
  • "U R", a song from the EP Follow: Find You, by Monsta X
  • "U R", a song from I (Taeyeon EP)
  • "Ur", a song from the EP Z (EP), by SZA
  • "UR/A Tear in the Open", a song from the album Just Be, by DJ Tiësto

Other media

  • Ur (novella), by Stephen King
  • MPAA rating system — UR, indicating a work not submitted for rating
  • UR Cristiano, the YouTube channel of association footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Utbildningsradion (UR), the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

Language

  • Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet
  • Ur (cuneiform)
  • ur (digraph)
  • Ur (rune) (ᚢ)
  • Underlying representation, in phonology
  • Urdu, a language (ISO 639 code "ur")
  • ur-, prefix meaning proto- or arch-

Places

Ancient

  • Ur, an ancient city-state in southern Mesopotamia
  • Ur of the Chaldees, or Ur Kaśdim, scriptural birthplace of Abraham

Modern

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  • Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales Département, France
  • Ur, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province
  • Hayy Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq
  • Canton of Uri, Switzerland

Religion and esotericism

  • Ur (Mandaeism), the king of the underworld in Mandaeism
  • UR Group, Italian esotericist association

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • Ur (continent), hypothetically formed about 3.1 billion years ago
  • Ur (programming language)
  • UR Mark, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
  • Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35, a Polish anti-tank rifle (codename "Uruguay")
  • Unitary representation, in group theory
  • Uranium, an element formerly having symbol "Ur"

Vehicles

  • Universal Rocket, a family of Russian rockets developed by Khrunichev
  • UrQuattro, prefix of the original Audi Quattro automobile, 1980–1991
  • Ursaab, prefix of the original Saab automobile, 1949

Universities

United States

  • University of Richmond, in Virginia
  • University of Rochester, in New York
  • University of Redlands, in California

Other countries

  • Universität Regensburg, Germany
  • University of Regina, Canada
  • Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico
  • University of La Réunion, France
  • University of La Rioja, Spain
  • University of Rwanda

Other meanings

  • DWLA-FM, with former name "UR 105.9"
  • Uganda Airlines (IATA code)
  • Universal Robina, food and beverage company in the Philippines
  • Ulster Resistance, an Irish paramilitary group
  • Ulster Rugby, rugby union team of Ulster, Ireland
  • Ukraine (aircraft registration prefix UR)

Slang

ur is slang for "your" or "you're

See also

  • Ur-Fascism
  • Urtext (disambiguation)