UR

UR, Ur or ur may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

• A location in Final Fantasy III
• A race of aliens in Fading Suns, a role-playing game
• Royal Game of Ur, an ancient board game

Music

• "UR", pronounced "you are", a song from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
• "U R", a song by Monsta X from the EP Follow: Find You
• "Ur", a song by SZA from the EP Z
• "UR/A Tear in the Open", a song from the album Just Be by DJ Tiësto
• UR (band), a satellite band of Secret Chiefs 3 from the U.S. city of San Francisco, California
• Underground Resistance (band), a U.S. techno music label
• Universal Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label

Other media

• Ur, a novella by Stephen King
• UR (Unrated), used for a film not submitted for rating, or an uncut version of a film
• Sveriges Utbildningsradio, the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation

Language

• Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet
• Ur (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• ur (digraph), a digraph in Central Alaskan Yup'ik for /ʁʷ/, and in Pinyin for the trilled vowel /ʙ̝/
• Ur (root), a common root word in the Basque language
• Ur (rune) (ᚢ), a letter of the runic alphabets
• Ur-, a German prefix meaning "primeval" (seldom also "primitive") or even simply "original"
• Underlying representation, in phonology
• Urdu language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "ur")
• "you're" (you are) or "your" in text messaging

Places

• Ancient populated places:
  • Ur, an ancient city-state in southern Mesopotamia
  • Ur of the Chaldees, or Ur Kaśdim, scriptural birthplace of Abraham
• Modern populated places:
  • Ur, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
  • Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales Département, France
  • Canton of Uri, Switzerland
  • Hayy Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq

Religion and esotericism

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

Science, technology, and mathematics

• Ur, a continent that formed 3,100 million years ago
• Ur, a programming language
• UR Mark, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
• Ur, a Polish anti-tank rifle
• Unitary representation, in group theory
• Ur, an obsolete symbol for the element Uranium

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

• UR, the IATA code of Uganda Airlines
• Universal Robina, food and beverage company in the Philippines
• Ulster Resistance, an Ulster Loyalist paramilitary group founded by members of the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) against the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

See also

• Ur-fascism
• Urtext (disambiguation)