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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ogrï (“thief”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰃 (oγrï /uǧr¹i/, “thief”), Karakhanid اُغْریٖ (oγrï), Turkish uğru, Uyghur ئوغرى (oghri), Uzbek oʻgʻri, Kazakh ұры (ūry), Kyrgyz ууру (uuru), Bashkir уғры (uğrı), Yakut уор (uor), Chuvash вӑрӑ (vără).
The sense career criminal is likely a 20th century semantic loan from Russian вор в законе (vor v zakone).
Pronunciation
Noun
oğru (definite accusative oğrunu, plural oğrular)
- thief, burglar [2]
- inək oğrusu ― cattle thief
- thief in law, career criminal
- Synonyms: lotu, qanuni oğru, vorzakon
- oğru aləmi ― the underworld, the criminal society
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References
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ogrɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “oğru”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti (in Azerbaijani), volume III, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 514b