Gur

American  

[goor] / gʊər /

noun

1. a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.

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Gur British  

/ ɡʊə /

noun

1. Also called: Voltaic. a small group of languages of W Africa, spoken chiefly in Burkina Faso and Ghana, forming a branch of the Niger-Congo family

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Gur

“That’s where we’re the least lean,” Gur said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Gur has intentionally grown his company from six to 80 employees over the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

In a fascinating Times of Israel podcast aired on Tuesday, several hours before the hostage deal was announced, Haviv Rettig Gur, the newspaper’s senior analyst, offered two explanations for the government’s hard-line position.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2023

Gur oversaw a massive forgery operation that provided false documents for Jews and non-Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Whenever Holden or Nute expressed a wish to go to England, the natives would say to them,— Gur zah beeto Inglish bah?

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Horace Holden