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adj. Forbidden.
"it would be assur to back out of Shmonah Esrei ... into the peripheral front of someone davening behind you." (source)
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Heb אסור asúr, Yiddish אָסור óser
asur, osur, oser, usser
Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews tend to stress the first syllable: UH-sir. (Yiddish also has penultimate stress: O-ser.) See also aser.
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