Gur

[goor]

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.

Gur

/ 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

Example Sentences

According to Gur’s book, at least 7,000 Jews were smuggled out of Hungary, through Romania to ships on the Black Sea that would bring them to British-controlled Palestine.

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In 2013, Amazon tapped aviation buff and software engineer Gur Kimchi to run its nascent drone program, now known as Prime Air.

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Gur characterized mom-shaming as "really hurtful and unfair" and said it "in some way comes out of hatred of women and lack of support for women."

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He still wears the traditional broad black hat and knee pants of the Gur sect each Sabbath and has no television in his house.

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“He was a monster,” Gur said of the player then maturing before Israel’s eyes.

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