# Jura
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʊɹə/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʊəɹə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

### Etymology 1

From French Jura, perhaps of Celtic origin.

#### Proper noun

Jura
* The Jura Mountains, a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.
** 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:Occasionally, a sigh of mountain air came from the distant Jura, fading along the plain.
** 1862, Author not identified, The Fir-Tree of the Jura, The Fir-Tree of the Jura and Other Stories, Oliphants Juvenile Series, page 7,
    On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.
* A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Lons-le-Saunier. [Created 1790.]
* A canton of Switzerland. [Created 1979.]
    Synonym: canton of Jura
** 2004, Jan Oskar Engene, Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950, page 158:This parallel is the Jura conflict. While the cantonal structure in Switzerland largely follows linguistic lines, the predominantly French-speaking Jura had for a long time until recently been a part of the German-speaking canton of Bern.

##### Derived terms

* Bernese Jura
* Franconian Jura
* Jura-Trias
* Montes Jura
* Paps of Jura
* Polish Jura

##### Related terms

* Jurassic

##### Translations

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#### See also

* Jura (departement) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Canton of Jura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Aargau
* Appenzell Inner Rhodes
* Appenzell Outer Rhodes
* Basel-Landschaft
* Basel-Stadt
* Bern
* Fribourg
* Geneva
* Glarus
* Grisons
* Jura
* Lucerne
* Neuchâtel
* Nidwalden
* Obwalden
* Schaffhausen
* Schwyz
* Solothurn
* St. Gallen
* Thurgau
* Ticino
* Uri
* Valais
* Vaud
* Zug
* Zurich

### Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic Diùra, from Old Norse Dýrey (literally “animal island”).

#### Proper noun

Jura
* An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
** 1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275,
    Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph.

##### Translations
#### See also

* Jura, Scotland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Raju

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒu.ɾa]

### Proper noun

Jura m
* Jura (a canton of Switzerland; capital: Delémont)
* Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; capital: Lons-le-Saunier)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjura]

### Proper noun

Jura m anim
* (dialectal) a diminutive of the male given name Jiří

#### Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

## French
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of Gaulish *iuris (“wooded mountain”), commonly derived from Proto-Celtic *yor- (“forest”), but this remains speculative, as cognates of this Celtic root remain lacking. More at Jura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒy.ʁa/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Jura m
* Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
* Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
* Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
* Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

#### Derived terms

* Jurassien
* jurassien

### See also

* Appenzell Rhodes-Extérieures
* Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures
* Argovie
* Bâle-Campagne
* Bâle-Ville
* Berne
* Fribourg
* Genève
* Glaris
* Grisons
* Jura
* Lucerne
* Neuchâtel
* Nidwald
* Obwald
* Saint-Gall
* Schaffhouse
* Schwytz
* Soleure
* Tessin
* Thurgovie
* Uri
* Valais
* Vaud
* Zoug
* Zurich

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

## German
### Alternative forms

* JU (canton; ISO 3166-2:CH)

### Etymology 1

From French Jura

#### Pronunciation

* (Germany) IPA: [ˈjuːʀaː]
** Audio:(file)
* (Switzerland) IPA: [ˈjuːrɑː]
** Audio (Switzerland):(file)

#### Proper noun

der Jura m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Juras)
* Jura Mountains (a mountain range on the border of France, Switzerland and Germany)
* the Jurassic
* Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
* Jura (a region of France)
    Synonym: Kanton Jura
* Jura (an island of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom)

##### Derived terms

* Jurassier
* jurassisch

#### See also

* Trias
* Kreide
* Mesozoikum
* Aargau
* Appenzell Ausserrhoden
* Appenzell Innerrhoden
* Basel-Landschaft
* Basel-Stadt
* Bern
* Freiburg
* Genf
* Glarus
* Graubünden
* Jura
* Luzern
* Neuenburg
* Nidwalden
* Obwalden
* Schaffhausen
* Schwyz
* Solothurn
* St. Gallen
* Tessin
* Thurgau
* Uri
* Waadt
* Wallis
* Zug
* Zürich

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin iūra, nominative plural of iūs (“law, right”).

#### Noun

Jura n pl (plural only)
* law (study)
    Ich habe Jura studiert. ― I studied law.

##### Usage notes

* Used generally without article and without attributive adjectives, so no gender or number applies except from an etymological view.
* Often used in Jura studieren.

##### Synonyms

* (law): Jurisprudenz, Jus (Switzerland, Austria), Rechtswissenschaft, Recht, Rechte, Juristerei (humorous)

##### Related terms

* Jurastudent
* Jurastudium, Jura-Studium

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French Jura.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈju.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ura
* Syllabification: Ju‧ra
* Homophone: jura

### Proper noun

Jura f
* Jura (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
* Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
* Jura (an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland)
* Jura (a mountain range in France and Switzerland)

#### Derived terms

* jura

#### Related terms

* jurajski

### Further reading

* Jura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Jura in PWN's encyclopedia
* “Jura”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

## Romanian
### Etymology

From Jora. Compare Ukrainian Жура (Žura), Russian Жура (Žura), Polish Żura.

### Proper noun

Jura f
* A village in Jura, Transnistria, Moldova
* A commune of Transnistria, Moldova

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

A hypocoristic form of Juraj.

### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /jûra/

#### Proper noun

Jȕra m
* a male given name, equivalent to English George

### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /jǔːra/

#### Proper noun

Júra f
* (geology) Jurassic, the time period from 200 to 145 million years ago

### Further reading

* “Jura”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025