oğru
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Azerbaijani
[edit]Cyrillic | оғру | |
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Abjad | اوغرو |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ogrï (“thief”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃 (oγrï /uǧr¹i/, “thief”), Karakhanid اُغْریٖ (oγrï), Turkish uğru, Uyghur ئوغرى (oghri), Uzbek oʻgʻri, Kazakh ұры (ūry), Kyrgyz ууру (uuru), Bashkir уғры (uğrı), Yakut уор (uor), Chuvash вӑрӑ (vără).
The sense career criminal is likely a 20th century semantic loan from Russian вор в законе (vor v zakone).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oğru (definite accusative oğrunu, plural oğrular)
- thief, burglar [2]
- inək oğrusu ― cattle thief
- thief in law, career criminal
- Synonyms: lotu, qanuni oğru, vorzakon
- oğru aləmi ― the underworld, the criminal society
Declension
[edit]Declension of oğru | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | oğru |
oğrular | ||||||
definite accusative | oğrunu |
oğruları | ||||||
dative | oğruya |
oğrulara | ||||||
locative | oğruda |
oğrularda | ||||||
ablative | oğrudan |
oğrulardan | ||||||
definite genitive | oğrunun |
oğruların |
Derived terms
[edit]- oğurluq (“theft, stealing”)
- oğru-əyri (“thieves, criminals, thugs”)
- oğru-quldur (“thieves and rubbers”)
- oğrun (“furtively, secretively”, adjective, adverb)
Related terms
[edit]- qanuni oğru (“thief in law”)
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ogrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “oğru”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language][1] (in Azerbaijani), volume III, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 514b
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