gour

gour (plural gours)

1. Dated form of gaur.

From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gurges.

gour (plural gours)

1. A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.

• Guro, guro

From Middle Breton *gur, from Old Breton gur, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuːʁ/

gour m (plural goured or gourien or gourion)

1. man
2. person (used in negation)
3. (rare) husband

• Gourcuff

From Old Cornish uir, from Proto-Brythonic *gwur, from Proto-Celtic *wiros. Cognate with Breton gour, Gaulish *wiros, Irish and Scottish Gaelic fear, Manx fer, and Welsh gŵr.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːɹ/

gour m (plural gwer)

1. husband

   Synonym: gourti

2. man

   Synonyms: den, gwas

• IPA^(key): /ɡuʁ/

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Borrowed from Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr.

gour m (plural gours)

1. butte

Inherited from Middle French, from Latin gurges.

gour m (plural gours)

1. a permanent rock pool
2. an oxbow, especially along the Loire
   • 1995, Jean-Noël Degorce, Les milieux humides dans la Loire‎^[1], page 110:

     Les gours les mieux pourvus en eau comme à Andrézieus auraient été les derniers délaissés par le fleuve, probablement lors des grandes crues du XIXeme comme le pense A. Le Griel.

     The pools best provided with water like the one at Andrézieux would have been the last separated from the river, probably during the great floods of the 19th century as thought by A. Le Griel.

• → English: gour

• “gour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “gour/1”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

gour

1. alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)