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urd

urd is the alternative spelling of urad.

Meaning of urad

Noun

urad (uncountable)

  1. (India) Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
    • A lasagne that feels like lasagne except made from mung and urad beans; the whole thing is then served – as if to remind you, again, of what it is not – with a thumb of cucumber.2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    black gram, black lentil, urad bean, urd bean

Noun capitalized: Urd

Urd (plural Urds)

  1. One of the three Norns; the Norn of those who were.

Forms of urd

pluralUrds
alternative formUrth

Origin of urd

From Old Norse Urðr, from Proto-Germanic *wurdiz (“fate, destiny”), Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with English weird.

Words formed from urd

Phrases with urd

Questions about urd

What does urd mean?
Urd means one of the three Norns; the Norn of those who were.
What is urd the alternative spelling of?
Urd is the alternative spelling of urad.
What part of speech is urd?
Urd is a noun.
What is the plural of urd?
The plural of urd is Urds.

Words near urd in the dictionary

  1. urchinlike
  2. urchinly
  3. urchins
  4. urchon
  5. urchons
  6. urd
  7. urd bean
  8. urd dal
  9. urdamycin
  10. urdamycins
  11. Urdaneta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urd (page history and authors); Urd (page history and authors); urad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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