asur

plural asurs

1. HinduismIndiaalternativeAlternative spelling of Asura.
2. IndiaderogatoryAn evil person, a malevolent being.

   This use of the word to portray the Bengal chief minister as the biggest challenger to the country’s two most powerful men, and especially their depiction as an asur or demon, did not go down well with supporters of the country’s ruling force, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).

   2021, Snigdhenu Bhattacharya, The Wire

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of assur.

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of azure.

   ... asur a griffin passant […]

   1896, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Society of Antiquaries of London, Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition, Burlington House, 1894, page 67

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   Sable, goulis, asur, vert, perpure […]

   1869, Frederick James Furnivall, Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert).: A Booke of Percedence, page 96

   94. RYSELEY OF [ ] beryth to his crest […] a wreeth silver and asur manteled asur[…]

   1904, The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, page 184

   Thomas Wall's book of crests of 1530 records that 'Trevylion of Devon beryth to his crest two armes asur the handes silver holdyng a pellet on the[…]

   2022 July 5, Louise D’Arcens, Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, Medieval literary voices: Embodiment, materiality and performance, Manchester University Press, →ISBN

1. pluralplural onlyA small Austroasiatic ethnic group living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

1. Synonym of Asuri (“the language of these people”).

   Synonyms: Asuri