tughra

English

The tughra of sultan Mahmud II.

Alternative forms

• toughra

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish tuğra, from Ottoman Turkish طغرا (tuğra).

Noun

tughra (plural tughras)

1. A calligraphic signature of an Ottoman sultan (and some other rulers to the present day) that was affixed to official documents, carved on his seal, and stamped on coins and inscribed on some stamps issued during his reign.

Translations

signature of an Ottoman sultan

• Arabic: طغراء
• Bulgarian: тура (bg) (tura)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花押 (zh) (huāyā)

• Dutch: tughra
• Finnish: tughra
• French: tuğra (fr)
• German: Tughra
• Greek: τουρά (el) f (tourá), τουράς (el) m (tourás), τουγρά (el) f (tougrá), τουγράς (el) m (tougrás)
• Hebrew: טורה (he)
• Hungarian: tuğra
• Italian: tughra
• Japanese: トゥグラ (tugura)
• Kazakh: тұғра (tūğra)
• Latvian: tugra
• Lithuanian: tugra
• Norwegian: tugra
• Ottoman Turkish: طغرا (tuğra)
• Persian: طغرا (fa) (toğrâ)
• Polish: tugra
• Portuguese: tugra f
• Russian: тугра (ru) (tugra)
• Serbo-Croatian: tugra, tughra
• Slovene: tugra
• Spanish: tughra
• Swedish: tugra
• Thai: ตราพระปรมาภิไธยทูกรา
• Turkish: tuğra (tr)

See also

• royal cypher
• imperial cypher

Anagrams

• ghutra, raught