gur1
/ɡʊə
/noun [mass noun]
(In South Asia) a type of unrefined, solid brown sugar made from boiling sugar cane juice until dry.In the Indian subcontinent and in SE Asia a crude, dark palm sugar called jaggery or gur is used....
- The connoisseur would have the imli and gur mixed just so right and the chaat would be so hot as to make your eyes water.
- A favorite breakfast dish is panthabhat, leftover cold rice in water or milk mixed with gur (date palm sugar).
Origin
From Hindi guṛ and Marathi gūṛ, from Sanskrit guḍa.
Gur2
/ɡəː/adjective
Relating to or denoting a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, spoken in parts of West Africa and including More and Senufo.Of these three subfamilies of the Gur language group, Mole-Dagbane make up 15 percent of Ghana's population and are by far the largest group in their region....
- Residents there spoke a dialect of the same Gur language of many Dogon groups.
- It belongs to the Gur group within the Niger-Congo language family.
noun [mass noun]
The Gur group of languages. Also called Voltaic.Other languages spoken by large numbers of Ghanaians include Ewe, Ga, Guan, and Gur.