Tur or TUR can stand for:

Religious works

* Arba'ah Turim, a work of Jewish law, also known as the Tur *

At-Tur At-Tur ( ar, الطور, ; The Mount) is the 52nd chapter (''sūrah'') of the Quran with 49 verses ('' ayat''). The surah opens with the oath of the Allah swearing by the Mount, which some believe is Mount Sinai, where the Tawrat was reveale ...

, the 52nd sura of the Qur'an

People

Jacob ben Asher Jacob ben Asher (c. 1269 - c. 1343), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Master of the Columns"), after ...

, author of Arba'ah Turim, also known as the Tur or the Baal Haturim *

Tur (Shahnameh) Tur (; fa, تور, ) is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the second son of the legendary Iranian king Fereydun and brother of both Salm and Iraj. His name, meaning "brave", was given to him by his father when the young prince brav ...

, son of Fereydun and predecessor of the Turanians *

Ali Tur Ali Georges Tur (20 February 1889 – 26 September 1977) is a French architect. He is known for the hundreds of buildings he designed and built in Guadeloupe from 1929 to 1937 for a total amount of 72 million francs. Early life Tur was born ...

(1889–1977), French architect * Nuncia María Tur, Argentinian botanist with the standard botanical author abbreviation "Tur". *

Katy Tur Katherine Bear Tur (born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC Reports, where since 2021 she has hosted ''Katy Tur Reports'' on MSNBC. She has also re ...

, NBC News Anchor * Marc Tur (born 1994), Spanish race walker *

Mohan Singh Tur Mohan Singh Tur (1915–1979) was an Indian politician and former Jathedar of Akal Takht and president of Shiromani Akali Dal . He was also known as Jathedar Mohan Singh Tur. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of ...

, former Jathedar (Head) of Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab, India. * Naphtali Wolf Tur, poet * Zoey Tur, former MSNBC Host and Pilot/Reporter.

Places

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, a country in Asia and Europe

Settlements

El-Tor El Tor ( ar, الطور ''/'' ), also romanized as ''Al-Tur'' and ''At-Tur'' and known as ''Tur Sinai'', formerly Raithu, is a small city and the capital of the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt. The name of the city comes from the Arabic term for ...

, Egypt, also known as Tur * Tur, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran * Tur, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * At-Tur (Mount of Olives), a

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

neighborhood *

Tuř Tuř is a municipality and village in Jičín District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants. History In 2019, the village of Hubálov, originally part of Tuř, was joined to Jičín Jičín (; german ...

, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic *

Tur, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Tur is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szubin, within Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Szubin, south-east of Nakło nad Notecią, and west of Bydgoszcz. ...

, a village in north-central Poland * Tur, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland * Tur, a village in

Negrești-Oaș Negrești-Oaș (; hu, Avasfelsőfalu, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a town in northwestern Romania, in the county of Satu Mare. Two villages, Luna (''Lunaforrás'') and Tur (''Túrvékonya''), are administered by the town. The name ''Negrești' ...

town, Romania * ''Tűr'', the Hungarian name for Tiur village, Blaj, Romania

Natural features

Tur (river) The Tur ( hu, Túr) is a tributary of the river Tisza. Its sources are located in the Oaș Mountains in Romania. The Tur starts at the confluence of its headwaters, the ''Gorova'' and ''Turișor''. It then flows through Satu Mare County in Romania ...

, river in Romania and Hungary

Transportation

* TUR, the National Rail station code for

Turkey Street railway station Turkey Street is a London Overground station on the Southbury Loop section of the Lea Valley lines, located in the Bullsmoor area to the north of Enfield in north London. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between ...

, London, England

Living things

East Caucasian tur The East Caucasian tur (''Capra cylindricornis''), also known as the Daghestani tur, is a mountain-dwelling caprine living in the eastern half of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and European Russia. It inhabits rough ...

, a species of goat * West Caucasian tur, a species of goat * ''Tur'' (mite), a genus of mites * Tur, Polish for

aurochs The aurochs (''Bos primigenius'') ( or ) is an extinct cattle species, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to in bulls and in cows, it was one of the largest herbivores in the Holocen ...

(''Bos primigenius'')

Other

Tur (bean) The pigeon pea (''Cajanus cajan'') is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Old World. The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in South Asia, Southe ...

Tur (cuneiform) The cuneiform sign for tur is used to denote one syllabic usage, ''tur'', or the sign's Sumerograms; it is used in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the 14th century BC Amarna letters. The sign is based on the i (cuneiform) sign, with the one small add ...

, a cuneiform sign *

Turkish language Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant sma ...

(ISO 639-2 language code) * Trans-urethral resection, a surgical procedure * AMZ Tur, military vehicle * Toxics use reduction * Test Unit Ready, a SCSI command in computer science *

Tur (Bosnian-Slavic mythology) Tur is a Slavic mythical creature that originated in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to tales, Tur is a giant bull that holds the Earth on its back, akin to Kujata, the ox that helps in holding the world in Islamic mythology, or the Wor ...

* tur, "there" In Latvian {{disambiguation, geo, surname