dooru

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طوغری (doġrı), from Proto-Turkic *togru, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *togur-, itself a derivation from Proto-Turkic *tog-.[1] Compare Turkish doğru, Azerbaijani doğru, Turkmen dogry.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doːˈru/
  • Hyphenation: doo‧ru

Adjective

dooru (comparative taa dooru, superlaative en dooru, intensive dosdooru)

  1. straight, direct
    Synonyms: düz, açık, uz
  2. true, correct, right
    Synonyms: aslı, uz
    dooru söz acıdêr
    true words hurt
    genä dooru çıktıynan üünmüş
    he bragged when he came out to be correct again
  3. loyal, faithful
    Synonym: haliz

Derived terms

  • dooruca
  • doorucu
  • doorudak
  • doorudan
  • doorulmaa
  • doorultmaa
  • dooruluk
  • doorusu
  • doorutmaa

Postposition

dooru

  1. (with dative) towards
    imää deyni evä dooru gitmiş
    he went towards the house to eat

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dooru”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “dooru”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 44
  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “dooru”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 28
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “доору”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 157
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dooru”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 57
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