reÂ·frain 1. (rÄ­-frÄnâ²) intr.v. To hold oneself back; forbear from doing something: refrained from swearing. [Middle English refreinen, from Old French refrener, to restrain, from Latin refrÄnÄre : re-, re- + frÄnÄre, to restrain (from frÄnum, bridle, from frendere, to grind; see ghrendh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]
[ 1 syll. (t)zur, tz-ur ] The baby boy name Tzur is pronounced as TSuh-R â . Tzur is used chiefly in Hebrew and it is also derived from Hebrew origins. The name Tzur means rock. Tzuri (Hebrew), Tzuriel (Hebrew), and Zur (English) are variants of Tzur. Tzur is not popular as a baby boy name.
Tammuz [N] [B] [H] [S] a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice.