Ainur may refer to: * Ainur, a given name in several languages, such as Arabic, Kazakh and Albanian. The Turkish version of it is Aynur. It means "moonlight" * AINUR (Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings), catalogue of star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei *

Ainu (Middle-earth) Ainu or Aynu may refer to: *Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East *Ainu languages, a family of languages **Ainu language of Hokkaido ** Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands ** Sakhalin Ainu ...

(plural: Ainur), spirits in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium *

Ainu people The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Y ...

, of Japan and the Russian Far East

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