assur

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq

From Hebrew אָסוּר (asúr).

Their silence therefore of our way Assur’d us. — The divine comedy, Dante Alighieri
ASSING, David Assur, born at Königsberg, 1787, died 1842, was baptized in 1815. — Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, Aaron Bernstein
Assur of Nineveh, Marduk of Babylon, Baal of Tyre, Ammon of Memphis—all have bent the knee to Mazda the Glorious, to Mithra the Fiend-Smiting, and shall the weak dævas, the puny gods of Greece, save their land, when greater than they bow down in sore defeat?” Yet Glaucon still looked on her boldly. — A Victor of Salamis, William Stearns Davis

Asur, Ashur

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