اوغور

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اوغر (uğur)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ugur (“occasion, reason, time”); 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

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uğur3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4972
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اوغر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 82a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوغور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 192
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Augurium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 103
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اوغر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 521
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uğur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوغور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 258