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  • noun a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana

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  • The taste automatically becomes more delicious when gur is used.

    Celebrating Harvest 2006

  • Home Page of the Ulster-Scots Agency C� go gceapaim f�in gur teanga an-ait go deo ach t?

    One of these days… » 2003 » October » 16 2003

  • Home Page of the Ulster-Scots Agency C� go gceapaim f�in gur teanga an-ait go deo ach t?

    One of these days… 2003

  • The sap is collected either from the flowering stalks at the top of the tree, or from taps in the trunk, and then is boiled down either to a syrup called palm honey, or to a crystallized mass, which in India is known as gur (Hindi) or jaggery (English, via Portuguese from the Sanskrit sharkara).

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The sap is collected either from the flowering stalks at the top of the tree, or from taps in the trunk, and then is boiled down either to a syrup called palm honey, or to a crystallized mass, which in India is known as gur (Hindi) or jaggery (English, via Portuguese from the Sanskrit sharkara).

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • First he is labelled a gur 'aryeh, i.e. "whelp of a lion," which here certainly does not mean a young cub but a young lion in the freshness of his just matured strength.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • In the 6th century B.C., Indians first refined sugar into its simplest form called gur, a lumpy brown substance with a taste like molasses.

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  • Kalas a rupee to purchase 'gur' (coarse sugar), of which all the females partake, as a sacred offering to the sex.

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • Bellos doesn't make it entirely clear if the English text here actually corresponds to any Albanian version of Kronikë në gur.

    July Books 19) Verdigris, by Paul Magrs nwhyte 2009

  • Gur travhf bs gur zrgubq vf gung orpnhfr gurer ner 26 yrggref va gur Ratyvfu nycunorg, gur fnzr rapelcgvba zrgubq jvyy qrpelcg n ebgngrq grkg!

    Alphabet of Computing 2009

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  • Babylonian measurement equivalent of about 80 U.S. gallons (302 litres).

    March 3, 2007