تغرو

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *toguru (“straightforward, straight, correct”). Cognate with Turkish doğru.

Noun

تُغْرُو (toğrū)

1. the tang of a sword, knife or dagger

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “toğuru:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 473

Further reading

• Mahmud al-Kashgarî (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 421.