Tur or TUR may refer to:

Religious works

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Arba'ah Turim ''Arba'ah Turim'' (), often called simply the ''Tur'', is an important Halakha#Codes of Jewish law, Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as ''Ba'al Ha-Turim''). The four-part stru ...

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

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

, the 52nd sura of the Qur'an

People

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 i ...

(1889–1977), French architect *

Jacob ben Asher Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270–1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Author of the ''Turim''"), after his main work, the ''A ...

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

Jan Tur Jan Feliks Tur (25 August 1875 – 8 May 1942) was a Polish zoologist who specialized in embryology, mutagenesis, and teratology at the University of Warsaw. His family belonged to the Korczak coat of arms, Korczak clan of nobles. Tur was born at ...

(1875–1942), Polish zoologist *

Katy Tur Katherine Bear Tur Retrieved October 16, 2018. (; born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for MSNBC. She has anchored daytime news coverage for the network since 2017; her show has been nam ...

, American author and journalist * Marc Tur (born 1994), Spanish race walker *

Mohan Singh Tur Mohan Singh Tur (1915–1979) was an Indian politician and former Jathedar of the 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 Parliame ...

(1915–1979), Indian politician, Jathedar (Head) of Akal Takht, Amritsar, Punjab from 1962 to 1963 * Naphtali Wolf Tur (died 1885), Russian Hebrew poet * Nuncia María Tur, Argentinian botanist with the standard botanical author abbreviation "Tur" *

Tur (Shahnameh) Tur (; , ) 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 bravely fig ...

, son of Fereydun and predecessor of the Turanians * Zoey Tur, American broadcast reporter

Places

Settlements

El-Tor El Tor ( ''/'' ), 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 the mountain ...

, Egypt, also known as Tur * Tur, Markazi, a village in Markazi province, Iran * Tur, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan province, Iran *

Tur Rural District Tur Rural District () is in Talarpey District of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Kharrat Kola. History In 2013, Kiakola District Kiakola District () is a former administrative division of Qae ...

, an administrative division of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran *

At-Tur (Mount of Olives) At-Tur (; ) is a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem. At-Tur is situated in East Jerusalem, occupied and later effectively annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. History A ...

, a Jerusalem 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 (; or ' ...

, a municipality and village in the Czech Republic * Tur, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in north-central Poland * Tur, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland * Tur, a village in

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

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

Blaj Blaj (; archaically spelled as ''Blaș''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Blußendref'') is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 17,816 inhabitants as of 2021. The city administers eight villages: Deleni-Obârșie ('' ...

, Romania

Natural features

Tur (river) The Tur () 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. The m ...

, river in Romania and Hungary

Transportation

* TUR, the National Rail station code for

Turkey Street railway station Turkey Street is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, 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 and stations on the So ...

, 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 mou ...

, a species of goat *

West Caucasian tur The West Caucasian tur (''Capra caucasica'') is a mountain-dwelling goat-antelope native to the western half of the Caucasus Mountains range, in Georgia and European Russia. Names and taxonomy It is also known by the names "zebuder," "zac" and ...

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

aurochs The aurochs (''Bos primigenius''; or ; pl.: aurochs or aurochsen) is an extinct species of Bovini, bovine, 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 t ...

(''Bos primigenius'')

Other

Tur (bean) The pigeon pea (''Cajanus cajan'') or toor dal is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Eastern Hemisphere. The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in ...

, a name for the pigeon pea in India *

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 known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languag ...

(ISO 639-2 language code) * Transurethral resection, a surgical procedure *

AMZ Tur Tur (Tur 1) () is a light infantry mobility vehicle designed by the Polish factory AMZ-Kutno in 2007. The Tur was designed for intervention and patrol tasks behind front lines, specially equipped for operations in dangerous areas. It has a five ...

, Polish military vehicle * Toxics use reduction, in pollution prevention * Test Unit Ready, a

SCSI command Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, ) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives. SCSI was introduced ...

in computer science * Tur (Bosnian-Slavic mythology), a mythical creature * Test Uncertainty Ratio, a concept in

calibration In measurement technology and metrology, calibration is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy. Such a standard could be another measurement device of known ...