Sur

Meaning

  1. Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)
  2. Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)
  3. a town and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey

Frequency

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Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish صور (Sur), borrowed from Arabic صُور (ṣūr), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr /⁠Ṣur⁠/, “rock”).

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