Uruk

From Akkadian 𒌷𒀕 (/⁠uruk⁠/), from Sumerian 𒀕 (unug, “abode, site, location, seat, typically in reference to a deity's earthly dwelling”) either as a phonetic alteration of the Sumerian or influenced as a calque translation using Akkadian 𒌷 (/⁠uru⁠/, “city, place of dwelling or collecting under”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊrʊk/

Uruk

1. (historical) An ancient city in Sumer and Babylonia, in modern-day Iraq.
   • 2019 January 8, Christine Proust, John Steele, Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk, Springer, →ISBN, page 248:

     […] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.

• Urukean
• Uruk period
• Uruk-Warka

• Erech
• Warka

• kuru, ruku'

Uruk

1. a female given name

• In Amis naming customs, a personal name consists of either:

1. given name + parent’s name (typically the mother’s name) — common among northern Taiwan Amis
2. given name + parent’s name + clan name — common among southern Taiwan Amis (including Coastal, Malan and Hengchun subgroups), where clan-based social structure is prevalent

• Center for aboriginal studies (2014), “Uruk”, in 原住民族人名譜 [Dictionary of Aboriginal Names in Taiwan]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taipei: Council of Indigenous Peoples