tru

tru (comparative more tru, superlative most tru)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of true.
   • 2014, Teddy Steinkellner, Trash Can Nights: The Saga Continues‎, Los Angeles, Calif., New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, Disney Book Group, →ISBN:

     sashaFEROCIOUS228: not
     sashaFEROCIOUS228: happy
     tinydancerlexi14: why???
     tinydancerlexi14: cuz singles awareness day 2morro?
     sashaFEROCIOUS228: ugh shut up
     sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate when ppl call it that
     sashaFEROCIOUS228: i hate you
     tinydancerlexi14: its tru tho
     tinydancerlexi14: u dont have a bf

   • 2017, Chyna Moore-Smith, Orbit. A Collection of Thoughts, Poems, and Conversations from the First Time I Fell in Love., [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 29:

     Chyna: Lmao okay, that’s not true so idk why she told you that.
     Chyna: My only focus rn is college and money.
     Jonathan: No, not like tht. She asked me if i thought u couldve and i said yea ot wouldnt suprise me. She jus asked me.
     Jonathan: And if those are ur only focuses, yd u ask me
     Jonathan: She ddnt say anything about being tru
     Jonathan: She jus asked if i had thought of it

   • 2020, Hannah Capin, Foul Is Fair‎, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

     And the second-string boy said, bro you were yelling about her all night. Then, pics, u promised. / And Connor said, u think im fukkin high? no phones in the room. dunc’s rules. / The second-string boy said, bet Dunc’s rules say no trophies too. / Connor said, dammm. And then, tru tho. And then, check it out lmao.

• tru dat

• “Tru”, in Slang.net‎, 2013–2023, archived from the original on 2023-06-02: “Tru is an easy and common way to abbreviate "true" - because it reads and sounds exactly the same.”

From Proto-Albanian *taruna, from Proto-Indo-European *teruno (“tender, soft”). Compare Sanskrit तरुण (táruṇa, “young, fresh”), Ancient Greek τέρην (térēn), Italian tenero.[1]

• IPA^(key): /tɾũ/

tru m (plural tru, definite truri, definite plural trutë)

1. brain

• mend (“mind”)

• trullos
• truri (standard, Tosk)
• truni (Gheg) / trũnië (Zhêzhë)

tru

1. you, second-person singular, nominative; thou

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 513

• ntru

From Latin intro. Compare Romanian întru.

tru

1. in

• ãn, tu

• ãntru

IPA^(key): /truːˀ/, [ˈtˢʁ̥uˀ], [ˈtˢʁ̥oˀ]

• Homophone: tro

tru

1. imperative of true

tru

1. you, second-person singular, nominative; thou

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 513

• tro (Etymologies 1-3)

• IPA^(key): /trʉː/

From Old Norse trúr.

tru

1. faithful, loyal

   Han har trua på at det skal gå bra.

   He is faithful that it will go well.

2. true

• truskap

From Old Norse trú.

tru f or m (definite singular trua or truen, indefinite plural truer, definite plural truene)

1. belief, faith
2. trust, confidence

From Old Norse trúa.

tru (imperative tru, present tense trur, simple past trudde, past participle trudd)

1. to think, believe
2. to imagine, suppose
3. to have faith

tru

1. imperative of true

• “tru” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrʉː], [ˈtɾʉː], [ˈtʁʉː]

From Old Norse trú.

tru f (definite singular trua, indefinite plural truer, definite plural truene)

1. belief, faith

   Dette var før den nye trua hadde kome.

   This was before the new faith had arrived.

2. trust, confidence

   Eg har trua på deg.

   I have confidence in you.

• mun tru
• truskyld
• truverdig

From Old Norse trúa. Akin to English trow.

tru (present tense trur, past tense trudde, past participle trutt/trudd, passive infinitive truast, present participle truande, imperative tru)

1. to think, believe

   Nei, det trur eg ikkje.

   No, I don't think so.

2. imagine, suppose

   Skal tru om det kjem til å snøa i morgon.

   I wonder if it will snow tomorrow.

3. to believe

   Eg trur deg ikkje.

   I don't believe you.

4. to believe (have religious faith)

   Eg trur på Gud.

   I believe in God.

5. entrust

From Old Norse trúr.

tru

1. faithful, loyal

   Han var ein tru tenar.

   He was a faithful servant.

   Einige og tru til Dovre fell

   United and loyal (are we) until the Dovre (mountains) fall

2. true

• truskap

• “tru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• (Kadô) sru
• (Pahi Tamprín) chru

From Proto-Katuic *ɟruu[ʔ], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟruuʔ ~ *ɟruh ~ *rɟuh (“deep”).

• IPA^(key): [truː]

tru 

1. (Pahi Axap, Tal-ay) deep

From English true.

tru

1. true

tru

1. truth

tru

1. (Toda dialect) three
2. (Truku dialect) three
3. (Truku) three

• IPA^(key): /kɾuː/

1. 6 (six)

• (Pyu digits):           

From English true.

tru

1. true
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:23:

     Man i lukim meri na em i tok olsem, “Em nau. Em i poroman tru bilong mi. Bun bilong em i kamap long bun bilong mi, na mit bilong em i kamap long mit bilong mi. God i wokim em long bun bilong mi, olsem na bai mi kolim em ‘meri.’ ”

     →New International Version translation

tru

1. truly; very; verily
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:31:

     God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas tru. Nait i go pinis na moning i kamap. Em i de namba 6.

     →New International Version translation

2. very much
3. amen; so be it

This can be used where one would use yet in English, to signify that something is true even when it would seem unbelievable. It is placed at the end of a phrase or sentence.

• tenkyu tru

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʈʊw˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội)

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tru

1. (of an animal) to howl

Sino-Vietnamese word from 誅.

tru

1. (only in compounds) to eliminate

• tru di tam tộc, tru di cửu tộc
• trời tru đất diệt

(classifier con) tru

1. North Central Vietnam form of trâu (“water buffalo”)

Cognate with Yagnobi тирай (tiray), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tru

1. three