Given name & surname · also Catalan
Tur
“tufa, porous limestone”
Tur is a surname from Catalan, ultimately from Polish. It is used in English, Polish, Turkish, and Walloon.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tur goes back to a word meaning “tufa, porous limestone.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Tur comes from Catalan, and ultimately from Polish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tur’s family of names
In Russian usage, Tur as a surname is a transliteration of Тур.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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