غرور

Arabic

Root
غ ر ر (ḡ r r)
8 terms

    Etymology

    Verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɣu.ruːr/
    • Rhymes: -uːr

    Noun

    غُرُور • (ḡurūrm

    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)
    • 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
      Synonyms: طور (tavr, tavır), 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

    Further reading

    Persian

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

      Pronunciation

       

      Readings
      Classical reading? ġurūr
      Dari reading? ġurūr
      Iranian reading? ġorur
      Tajik reading? ġurur

      Noun

      غرور • (ġurūr / ġorur) (Tajik spelling ғурур)

      1. pride, vanity

      Urdu

      Etymology

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

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        غُرُور • (ġurūrm (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