doğru

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic доғру
Abjad دوغری

Etymology

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Cognate with Turkish doğru, Uzbek toʻgʻri.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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doğru

  1. true
  2. correct

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish طوغری (doğrı), from Proto-Turkic *togru. Cognate with Kyrgyz туура (tuura), Uzbek toʻgʻri, Turkmen dogry, Old Turkic [script needed] (toğru, toğuru, toğrı), derivative from Old Turkic [script needed] (toğur-). Related to direk, dik, and direnmek.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /doɰˈɾu/, [d̪o̞ːˈɾʊ]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: doğ‧ru
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Adjective

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doğru

  1. true
  2. right (correct)
  3. (geometry) line

Declension

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Postposition

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doğru (used after nouns and pronouns in the dative case)

  1. toward, straight toward, straight to (about space)
    Bu yol doğru ırmağa gider.
    This road leads straight to the river.
    (unlike "toward", "straight to" syntactically, or in vernacular is a preposition, however with pitch on "'doğru" can be placed as a postposition)
    Bu yol ırmağa doğru gider.
    This road goes towards the river.
  2. closer to (about time)
    Akşama doğru çok acıktım.
    Closer to the evening, I got really hungry.

Derived terms

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  • doğruca (straight to) (in this way can be used as a proposition before nouns and pronouns)
  • doğrudan (straight to) (in this way can be used as a proposition before nouns and pronouns)

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