gour

butte

Borrowed from Arabic قُور (qūr, “hills”) via the Maghrebi Arabic pronunciation gūr.

a permanent rock pool; an oxbow, especially along the Loire

“Les gours les mieux pourvus en eau comme à Andrézieus auraient été les derniers délaissés par le fleuve, probablement lors des grandes crues du XIXeme comme le pense A. Le Griel.” — The pools best provided with water like the one at Andrézieux would have been the last separated from the river, probably during the great floods of the 19th century as thought by A. Le Griel.

Inherited from Middle French, from Latin gurges.