1. Pur/Purim (lot, festival of lots) — The Hebrew noun פּוּר (pur) meaning 'lot' (as in casting lots to determine fate), and its plural form פּוּרִים (Purim), the name of the Jewish festival commemorating deliverance in the book of Esther. All four clusters represent inflectional variants of the same lexeme: singular 'Pur' (eng: Pur, spa: Pur, arb: فُورًا, kor: 부르를, swa: Puri) and plural 'Purim' with or without the article (eng: the Purim/Purim, spa: el Purim, hin: पूरीम, arb: الْفُورِيمِ/فُورِيمَ, kor: 부림의/부림이라고, swa: Purimu). The singular-plural and definite-indefinite distinctions are grammatical inflections, not semantic differences. 8×
AR["الْفُورِ","الْفُورِيمِ","فُورًا","فُورِيمَ"]·ben["-পূরীমের","-পূরের","পূর","পূরীম"]·DE["Los","Purim","[הפרים]","der-Los","der-Purim"]·EN["Pur","Purim","the-Pur","the-Purim"]·FR["Pur","der-taureaux"]·heb["ה-פור","פור"]·HI["पूर","पूर-के","पूरीम","पूरीम-के"]·ID["Pur","Purim"]·IT["Pur","il-tori"]·jav["Purim","pur"]·KO["그-부르의","그-부림의","부르를","부림이라고"]·PT["Pur","Purim","o-Pur","o-Purim","pur"]·RU["Пурим","Пурима","пур","пура"]·ES["Pur","Purim","el-Pur","el-Purim"]·SW["Puri","juu-ya","kwa-hiyo","ya-Purimu","yeye","za-Purimu"]·TR["Pur","Pur'un-","Purim","Purim'in-"]·urd["پور","پور-کے","پوریم","پوریم-کا","پوریم-کی","پوریم-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† פּוּר n.m. lot (NH = BH; perhaps Assyrian loan-word from puru, buru, stone JenZA x. 339 f. and in Wild Est p. 173 f.);—expl. by הַגּוֹרָל Est 3:7; 9:24; שֵׁם הַפּוּר v 26 explains name of feast פּוּרִים v 26; יְמֵי הַפֻּרִים days of Purim v 28, 31; אִגֶּרֶת הַפּ׳ v 29, דִּבְרֵי הַפּ׳ v 32.—Vid. on Purim especially NowArch. ii. 194 ff. and reff.