# غرور
## Arabic
### Etymology

Verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣu.ruːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

### Noun

غُرُور • (ḡurūr) m
* verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra) (form I)
* cockiness, vanity, pretension
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:كبرياء
* deception, delusion
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:120:وَمَا يَعِدُهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ إِلَّا غُرُورًاwamā yaʕiduhumu š-šayṭānu ʔillā ḡurūranTruly Satan promises them nothing but delusion.

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: qürur
* → Bashkir: ғорур (ğorur)
* → Hindi: ग़ुरूर (ġurūr)
* → Ottoman Turkish: غرور (gurur)
** Turkish: gurur
** → Crimean Tatar: ğurur
* → 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))
* pride, haughtiness, conceit, arrogance, superciliousness, presumptuousness, an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority
    Synonym: 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

* Turkish: gurur
* → Crimean Tatar: ğurur

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gurur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1784
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “gurûr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 352
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غرور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 872
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Superbia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1629
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “غرور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3397
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gurur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1342

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɣu.ɾuːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ɣu.ɾuɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qo.ɹuːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʁu.ɾuɾ]

### Noun

غرور • (ğorur)
* pride, vanity

## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɣʊ.ɾuːɾ/

### Noun

غُرُور • (ġurūr) m (Hindi spelling ग़ुरूर)
* pride, vanity, haughtiness
    Synonyms: اَبِھمان (abhimān), گَھمَنْڈ (ghamanḍ)

#### Declension
### 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