UR

UR, Ur or ur may refer to:

Geography

• Ur, an ancient city-state in southern Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq
  • Royal Game of Ur, two ancient game boards found in the Royal Tombs of Ur
• Ur of the Chaldees ((Ur Kaśdim)), a biblical place mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the birthplace of Abraham
• Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales Département, France
• Ur (continent), name of the first known continent in the field of tectonics
• Ur, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
• Canton of Uri, Switzerland
• Hay Ur, a neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq

Mathematics

• Unitary representation in group theory

Language and linguistics

• ur, ISO 639 alpha-2 code for the Urdu language
• ur, acronym for "your" or "you're" in text messaging
• Úr (ᚒ), a letter of the Ogham alphabet
• 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 "original or primitive" in linguistics, see:
  • Urheimat
  • Urlanguage
  • Urmonotheismus
  • Urreligion
  • Ursprache
• UR, acronym for Underlying representation in phonology

Media and entertainment

• Ur, a novella by Stephen King
• "UR", pronounced "you are," a song from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Alanis Morissette
• 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 San Francisco, California
• UR (Unrated), used for a film not submitted for rating or is an uncut version of a film
• A location in Final Fantasy III
• A race of aliens in Fading Suns, a role-playing game
• Ur, acronym for Sveriges Utbildningsradio, the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Corporation
• Underground Resistance (band), a US techno music label
• Universal Records (Philippines), a Philippine record label
• UR (album), the eighth studio album by American recording artist Usher.

Organizations and institutions

• University of La Rioja, Spain
• Universität Regensburg, Germany
• University of Regina, Canada
• Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico
• University of Richmond, Virginia, United States
• University of Rochester, New York, United States
• University of Redlands, United States

Other uses

• Ur, codename for the Polish Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 anti-tank rifle
• UR, abbreviation for UL Recognized, a certification mark of Underwriters Laboratories
• Ursaab, prefix of the original Saab automobile, 1949
• UrQuattro, prefix of the original Audi Quattro automobile, 1980-1991
• Audi Ur-S4 / Ur-S6, prefix the original Audi S4 or Audi S6 automobiles, 1992-1997
• Universal Rocket, a family of Russian rockets developed by Khrunichev

See also

• Urtext (disambiguation)