Description:

The term 'nura' comes from Old Common and means 'ink'. In modern High Common it has also come to be a basic term for writing and drawing using physical as opposed to electronic media.

Noun:

As a noun, 'nura' means 'ink', and can be extended to mean 'pigment'. The dervided form 'nuraca' can be a word for writer or artist, with the connotation being one that works with physical media, especially when it comes to artists.

The word 'nuraka' can be a word for drawing, or sometimes a hand-written document, but usually not something generated by a printer. In more colloquial language, 'ny nura' or 'ny nuraka' can also be a word for a tattoo.

The derived form 'nurasyn' is one word for physical art, especially books, drawings and prints.

Verb:

As a verb, 'nura' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to write or to draw, especially but not necessarily on physical media. It takes an ergative drawer (who can be the writer/artists, or more rarely, an implement) and an absolutive object which is the subject written or drawn. A happat benefactive form can be used where a medium written or drawn on can be added as a dative indirect object - this can also be specified in a less marked way in the skurun form as a prepositional phrase introduced with 'e'.

The pali antipassive form just means 'to be a writer' or 'to be an artist', again with an emphasis on physical media.

Because of the conflation with art and the novelty and cachet associated with physical media, 'nura' can be heard referring to writing electronically, especially when writing something important, but this can also sometimes come across as pretentious.

Modifier:

As a modifier, 'nuras' means darkly turbid or inky when referring to a liquid. It can mean coloured in that or other contexts, but the implication is artificially coloured and often darkly coloured. It can simply mean 'dark', especially in poetic contexts - for example, 'ny nuras malaz' can be a way of saying a 'dark night', although the implication is very dark, with poor visibility.