اوغور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • اوغر (uğur)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ugur (“occasion, reason, time”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani uğur.

Noun

اوغور • (uğur)

  1. luck, fortune, something favorable that happens to someone by chance
    Synonyms: بخت (baht), حظ (hazz), طالع (taliʼ), قوت (kut)
  2. omen, presage, auspice, augury, portent, especially favorable ones
    Synonym: فال (fal)

Derived terms

  • اوغورسز (uğursuz, “inauspicious, unlucky”)
  • اوغورلو (uğurlu, “lucky, auspicious”)
  • یر اوغوردن (yer uğurdan, “all at once”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: uğur
  • → Armenian: ուղուր (uġur)
  • → Romanian: ogur

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “uğur”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89

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