غرور

Arabic

Root
غ ر ر (ḡ r r)
7 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣu.ruːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

Noun

غُرُور • (ḡurūr) m

1. verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra) (form I)
2. cockiness, vanity, pretension

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:كبرياء

3. deception, delusion
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:120:

     وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ إِلَّا غُرُورًا

     wamā yaʕiduhumu š-šayṭānu ʔillā ḡurūran

     Truly Satan promises them nothing but delusion.

Declension

Declension of noun غُرُور (ḡurūr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	غُرُور ḡurūr	الْغُرُور al-ḡurūr	غُرُور ḡurūr
Nominative	غُرُورٌ ḡurūrun	الْغُرُورُ al-ḡurūru	غُرُورُ ḡurūru
Accusative	غُرُورًا ḡurūran	الْغُرُورَ al-ḡurūra	غُرُورَ ḡurūra
Genitive	غُرُورٍ ḡurūrin	الْغُرُورِ al-ḡurūri	غُرُورِ ḡurūri

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qürur
• → Bashkir: ғорур (ğorur)
• → Hindi: ग़ुरूर (ġurūr)
• → Ottoman Turkish: غرور (gurur)
  • Turkish: gurur
  • → Crimean Tatar: ğurur
• → Persian: غرور
• → Swahili: ghururi
• → Urdu: غرور
• → Uyghur: غۇرۇر (ghurur)
• → Uzbek: gʻurur

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

Noun

غرور • (gurur) (definite accusative غروری (gururu), plural غرورلر (gururlar))

1. pride, haughtiness, conceit, arrogance, superciliousness, presumptuousness, an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority

   Synonym: كبر (kibr, kibir)

Derived terms

• خواب غرور (hab-ı gurur, “presumption”)
• غرور ایتمك (gurur etmek, “to be blind with arrogance”)
• غرور جوانی (gurur-ı civânî, “the arrogance of youth”)
• غرورلو (gururlu, “arrogant, over-confident”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gurur
• → Crimean Tatar: ğurur

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gurur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1784
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gurûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 352
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غرور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 872
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superbia”, 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 1629
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غرور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3397
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gurur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1342

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɣu.ɾuːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɣu.ɾuɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qo.ɹuːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʁu.ɾuɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	ğurūr
Dari reading?	ğurūr
Iranian reading?	ğorur
Tajik reading?	ġurur

Noun

غرور • (ğorur)

1. pride, vanity

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr)bor.

Classical Persian غرورbor.

Urdu غرور

Borrowed from Persian غرور, from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ/

Noun

غُرُور • (ġurūr) m (Hindi spelling ग़ुरूर)

1. pride, vanity, haughtiness

   Synonyms: اَبِھمان (abhimān), گَھمَنْڈ (ghamanḍ)

Declension

Declension of غرور

	singular	plural
direct	غُرُور (ġurūr)	غُرُور (ġurūr)
oblique	غُرُور (ġurūr)	غُرُوروں (ġurūrõ)
vocative	غُرُور (ġurūr)	غُرُورو (ġurūro)

Further reading

• “غرور”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “غرور”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 443