sure

Etymology
From, , , from or , from , from  +  (compare 🇨🇬, from  + ). See. and the now obsolete or dialectal.

Displaced native (from ), 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬) with which it was cognate.

Adjective

 * 1) Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
 * 2) Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
 * 3) * 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, , Season 3, Episode 1:
 * Roy: I'm 95% sure it was him. Jen: You... you said you were 99% sure. Roy: I'm 97% sure it was him.
 * 1)  Certain to act or be a specified way.
 * 2)  Free from danger; safe; secure.
 * 3)  Betrothed; engaged to marry.
 * 4) * c. 1513-1518 (probably date written, published after 1535), History of King Richard III
 * The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
 * 1)  Certain to act or be a specified way.
 * 2)  Free from danger; safe; secure.
 * 3)  Betrothed; engaged to marry.
 * 4) * c. 1513-1518 (probably date written, published after 1535), History of King Richard III
 * The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.
 * 1)  Betrothed; engaged to marry.
 * 2) * c. 1513-1518 (probably date written, published after 1535), History of King Richard III
 * The king was sure to Dame Elizabeth Lucy, and her husband before God.

Translations

 * Arabic: أَكِيد
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: sigur
 * Basque: seguru
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: akachelo'ta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: sigûr, ciert
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: სანდო
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: dearfa, deimhin
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: cert, cërt
 * Latin: certus
 * Macedonian: сигурен
 * Norman: seux
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: wess
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: segir, sieir, siir, sgür
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: securu, seguru, sicuru, siguru
 * Scots: shuir
 * Scottish Gaelic: cinnteach, deimhinn
 * Sicilian:, siguro, certu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: упе́внений
 * Venetian: çerto, serto, sigur, siguro, seguro
 * Welsh: siwr,


 * Arabic: مُتَأَكِّد
 * Hijazi Arabic: مُتْأكِّد
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: seguru
 * Belarusian: упэ́ўнены,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: certa
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დარწმუნებული
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: biztos benne or with inessive case ………-ban/-ben
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: сигурен, уверен
 * Maore Comorian: na yakini
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: ġewiss
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: си̏гӯран, у̀верен
 * Roman:, ùveren
 * Slovak: istý
 * Slovene: gotov
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: упе́внений,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:

Adverb

 * 1)  Without doubt, certainly.
 * Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?
 * "Did you kill that bear yourself?" ―"I sure did!"
 * 1)  Without fail, surely.
 * 1)  Without fail, surely.

Usage notes

 * Often proscribed in favor of . May be informal.

Interjection

 * 1) Yes,.
 * 2) Yes; of course.
 * 3) You're welcome;.
 * 1) You're welcome;.
 * 1) You're welcome;.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: разбира се
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Polish:, ,


 * Arabic: طَبْعًا, أَكِيد
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: უთუოდ
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: jepp,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: určite
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: зві́сно

Etymology 1
From, from. .

Adjective

 * 1) safe, protected not dangerous or harmful
 * 2) fortified, well-defended, protected; especially religiously
 * , certain, confirmed
 * 1) -minded certain of one's intent
 * 2) reliable, of good quality
 * 3) sound, sturdy, hardy

Adverb

 * , surely, with no doubt or uncertainty
 * 1) entirely, wholly, fully
 * 2) While protecting something, with protection
 * 3) With a tight grasp or grip

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a sura any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a sura any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an

Etymology
From, related to.

Noun

 * 1)  sorrel

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) sura