طوغری

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دوغری (doğru)
• տօղրը (doğrı), տօղրու (doğru) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *togru (“straight; right; true”); cognate with Azerbaijani doğru, Kyrgyz туура (tuura), Turkmen dogry and Uzbek toʻgʻri.

Adjective

طوغری • (doğrı, doğru)

1. straight, not crooked or bent and having a constant direction throughout its length
2. upright, vertical, erect, standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down
3. level, having the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground

   Synonyms: دوز (düz), سوی (seviy)

4. true, conforming to the actual state of reality or fact, factually correct

   Synonym: گرچك (gerçek)

5. correct, right, accurate, free from errors and mistakes

Derived terms

• طوغریجه (doğruca, “pretty straight or true”)
• طوغریدن طوغری‌یه (doğrudan doğruya, “directly”)
• طوغریلامق (doğrulamak, “to correct”)
• طوغریلق (doğruluk, “straightness”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: doğru
• → Moroccan Arabic: دغري (duḡri)
• → North Levantine Arabic: دغري (diḡri)
• → South Levantine Arabic: دغري (duḡri)
• → Hebrew: דוגרי (duḡri)

Noun

طوغری • (doğru)

1. truth, true facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality
2. right, that which complies with justice, law or reason

Interjection

طوغری • (doğru)

1. true!

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “doğru”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1258
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوغری”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 818
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Verus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1743
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “doğru”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوغری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1257