𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃
Old Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ogrï (“thief”). Cognate with Chuvash вӑрӑ (vără, “thief”), Turkish oğru (“thief”), Uzbek oʼgʼri (“thief”), Bashkir уғры (uğrı, “thief”), Yakut уор (uor, “to steal”). Compare also Hungarian orv (“treacherous”), a Turkic borrowing.
Noun
[edit]𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃 (oɣrï)
- thief
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 16
- 𐰆𐱃𐰺𐰆:𐰘𐰃𐰼𐰓𐰀:𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃:𐰽𐰆𐰸𐰆𐰽𐰆𐰯:𐱃𐰆𐱃𐰆𐰆𐰯𐰣:𐰢𐰃𐰤𐰢𐰃𐰾
- otru:yérde:oɣrï:soqušup:tutupan:minmiš
- (On its way home) a thief came across. He caught and mounted it.
- 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 16
References
[edit]- Tekin, Talât (1993) “ogrı”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 60
- Abuseitova, M. Kh, Bukhatuly, B., editors (2008), “𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃”, in TÜRIK BITIG, Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Kazakhstan
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “oğrı”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 90
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ogrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill