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, the 52nd sura of the Qur'an

People

* Ali Tur (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 (1875–1942), Polish zoologist * Katy Tur, American author and journalist * Marc Tur (born 1994), Spanish race walker * Mohan Singh Tur (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, an administrative division of Simorgh County, Mazandaran province, Iran * At-Tur (Mount of Olives), a Jerusalem neighborhood * Tuř, 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 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, London, England

Living things

* East Caucasian tur, 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), 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, 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 ...