Arabic

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Root
غ ر ر (ḡ r r)
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    Verbal noun of غَرَّ (ḡarra).

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    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.

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    Ottoman Turkish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

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    غرور (gurur) (definite accusative غروری (gururu), plural غرورلر (gururlar))

    1. pride, haughtiness, conceit, arrogance, superciliousness, presumptuousness, an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority
      Synonym: كبر (kibr, kibir)

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    Persian

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Arabic غُرُور (ḡurūr).

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      Readings
      Classical reading? ğurūr
      Dari reading? ğurūr
      Iranian reading? ğorur
      Tajik reading? ġurur

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      غرور (ğorur)

      1. pride, vanity

      Urdu

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      Etymology

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

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        غُرُور (ġurūrm (Hindi spelling ग़ुरूर)

        1. pride, vanity, haughtiness
          Synonyms: اَبِھمان (abhimān), گَھمَنْڈ (ghamanḍ)

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        Declension of غرور
        singular plural
        direct غُرُور (ġurūr) غُرُور (ġurūr)
        oblique غُرُور (ġurūr) غُرُوروں (ġurūrõ)
        vocative غُرُور (ġurūr) غُرُورو (ġurūro)

        Further reading

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        • 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