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Dour (French pronunciation:; Picard: Doû) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 16,810 inhabitants. The total area is 33.32 km 2 , giving a population density of 505 inhabitants per km 2 .
A dawr (Arabic: دور or الدور; plural: adwar, أدوار; also spelled dour) is a genre of Arabic vocal music sung in regional or colloquial Arabic. The genre faded in popularity after the 1920s and often used the melismatic technique of ahaat. [1] The dawr often uses a string of maqamat, moving from one to the other in sequence.
Dour can refer to: Places. Dour, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium; River Dour, a river in England; Ad-Dawr (also known as Al-Dour), a town in Iraq; Ed-Dur (also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour), archeological site in the United Arab Emirates; Other. dour, a personality type characterized by excessive seriousness; Dour (TV serial), Pakistani ...
This effect was first observed by Georgian psychologist Dimitri Uznadze in a 1924 paper. [6] [non-primary source needed] He conducted an experiment with 10 participants who were given a list with nonsense words, shown six drawings for five seconds each, then instructed to pick a name for the drawing from the list of given words.
The Ribeira (meaning riverside). Its tall, colourful-building terraces is the main part of the river bank in the major city of Porto; it attracts numerous tourists These reaches of the Douro have a mesoclimate [ specify ] allowing for cultivation of olives , almonds , and especially grapes , which are important for making port .
Ed Dur, also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour (Arabic: ٱلدُّوْر, romanized: Ad-Dūr, lit. 'The Houses') [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an ancient Near Eastern city, today located in Umm Al Quwain , United Arab Emirates . [ 3 ]
The sequence *ub > *uβ remained as such when followed by a consonant, for instance in Proto-Celtic *dubros "water" > *duβr > Welsh dwfr, dŵr and Breton dour. [55] However, if no consonant exists after a *ub sequence, the *u merges with whatever Proto-Celtic *ou and *oi became, the result of which is written u in the Brittonic languages.
A "learn to pronounce" option was added to the English dictionary in December 2018 which shows how a word is pronounced with its non-phonemic pronunciation respelling and audio in different accents (such as British and American) along with an option to slow the audio down, visemes for pronunciations were also added in April 2019. [23]