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

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, page 89

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