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Ay-zhur.Pretty much equal emphasis on each syllable. (Native English speaker.)

AZH-oohr or AZH-ur
ah - as in ballet or alan (not as in all or amy)
zh - as in well, that's a hard one not like a j as in jewel but not quite like a dj either, but more like the latter
oohr and ur - as in sure, endure, or fur but not like fool or full

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i live in the northeast region of the US

I pronounce it 'ah-ZOOR'.

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In Croatian the word doesn't exist, so there is no set pronunciation, but in our phonetic system it would be 'AH-zoo-reh'.

I'm in the U.S. and my only association is "azure skies". The stress is usually pretty even between the syllables, maybe leaning slightly to the first, the "a" is short as in "apple", the "z" sounds like a "zh" blended in to a "y" sound, and the ending is like the end of "sure", well that's not the best example since some people pronounce "sure" like "sher", to rhyme with "fur"; I say it like "shoe"-"er" blended together. But back to "azure". The end rhymes with the end of "tour", "Fleur" or "Muir". Smush and blend "as" "your" together, where the "our" in "your" is said like the "our" in "tour". That's the best I can do.

I say it "AZH-(y)ur"
A like in Animal
ZH like in garaGe
(y)ur like in centURy

This message was edited 2/10/2013, 10:55 AM

Ah-zoor. (USA)

I'm a native English speaker and my first instinct was to pronounce it ah-ZOOR. It kind of looks like it could be Spanish though and pronounced ah-SOO-ray.

Like AY-zjer, with the A like in Kate and the Z like the "si" in Asia or the "g" in aubergine. I never know quite how to represent it; it's somewhere between a zj and a zh.

In English I would pr. it AY-zhuhr and in French a-ZEER.

I pronounce it ah-ZHUR.

a-ZOOR

Emphasis on first syllable; A as in Daisy. Zur sounds pretty much like the -sia in Asia. So, AY zhuh, like the continent. The r is silent.

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It featured in a song we sang at school, at least ten times a year for 12 years.

This message was edited 2/10/2013, 3:53 AM