The fruit to the viewer's
right is larger.
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Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Middle English right , from Old English riht (“right,” also the word for “straight” and “direct”), from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz , from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós ( “ having moved in a straight line ” ) , from *h₃reǵ- ( “ to straighten, direct ” ) . An Indo-European past participle, it became a Germanic adjective which has been used also as a noun since the common Germanic period. Cognate with West Frisian rjocht , Dutch recht , German recht and Recht , Swedish rätt and rät , Danish ret , Norwegian Bokmål rett , Norwegian Nynorsk rett , and Icelandic rétt . The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ὀρεκτός ( orektós ) and Latin rēctus ; Albanian drejt was borrowed from Latin.
Adjective Edit
right (comparative righter or more right , superlative rightest or rightmost )
( archaic ) Straight , not bent.
a right line
( geometry ) Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.
( geometry ) Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
a right triangle , a right prism , a right cone
Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct , just , true .
I thought you'd made a mistake, but it seems you were right all along.
It's not right that one person gets all the credit for the group's work. 1610 , John Locke , An Essay Concerning Human Understanding /Book II
If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right , "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
1808 , Bishop Joseph Hall , Devotional works
there are some dispositions blame-worthy in men, which are yet, in a right sense, holily ascribed unto God; as unchangeableness, and irrepentance.
1841 , Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge Chapter 13
What do you send me into London for, giving me only the right to call for my dinner at the Black Lion, which you’re to pay for next time you go, as if I was not to be trusted with a few shillings? Why do you use me like this? It’s not right of you. You can’t expect me to be quiet under it.
January 4 2018 , Catherine Ford in the Calgary Herald , Religious-based health care raises ethical questions
But when that patient requests access to medical care that violates some religious tenet, is it right that he or she either be denied outright or forced to seek an alternative facility?
Appropriate , perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
Is this the right software for my computer?
Healthy , sane , competent .
I'm afraid my father is no longer in his right mind.
Real; veritable (used emphatically).
You've made a right mess of the kitchen! 2016 , Sarah Harvey, A Laugh-out-loud Modern Love Story
He's got a wicked sense of fun, he can be a right laugh, he's ever so broadminded – ooh, and he's got a lovely broad chest too.
1670 , John Milton , The History of Britain
[ …] in this battle and whole business the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians: no rule, no foresight, no forecast, experience, or estimation
( Australia ) All right ; not requiring assistance .
1986 David Williamson, "What If You Died Tomorrow," Collected plays , Volume 1, Currency Press, p310
KIRSTY: I suppose you're hungry. Would you like something to eat? / KEN: No. I'm right , thanks.
2001 Catherine Menagé, Access to English, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, NSW: Sydney, p25
When the sales assistant sees the customer, she asks Are you right , sir? This means Are you all right? She wants to know if he needs any help.
2001 Morris Gleitzman, Two weeks with the Queen, Pan Macmillan Australia, p75
'You lost?' / Colin spun round. Looking at him was a nurse, her eyebrows raised. / 'No, I'm right , thanks,' said Colin.'
( dated ) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
c. 1707 Joseph Addison , The Tatler
The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
After the accident, her right leg was slightly shorter than her left.
Designed to be placed or worn outward .
the right side of a piece of cloth
( politics ) Pertaining to the political right; conservative .
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of an angle, 90 degrees
Portuguese: perpendicular (pt) , reto (pt)
Romanian: drept (ro)
Russian: перпендикуля́рный (ru) ( perpendikuljárnyj ) , прямо́й (ru) ( prjamój )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: okomit (sh)
Slovene: pravi
Spanish: perpendicular (es) , recto (es)
Swedish: rät (sv) , rätvinklig (sv) , vinkelrät (sv)
Tagalog: tadlungin , tadlong
Telugu: లంబ (te) ( lamba )
Thai: มุมฉาก (th) ( mum-chàak )
Turkish: dik (tr) , dikey (tr)
Ukrainian: перпендикуля́рний ( perpendykuljárnyj ) , прями́й (uk) ( prjamýj ) , сторчови́й (uk) ( storčovýj ) , прямови́сний ( prjamovýsnyj )
Vietnamese: (please verify ) vuông góc (vi) , ( vuông = perpendicular, thẳng = straight ) (please verify ) thẳng góc (vi)
Welsh: cywir (cy) , sgŵr
geometry: incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
complying with justice, correct
— See also translations at be right
Albanian: drejtë (sq)
Arabic: صَحِيح (ar) m ( ṣaḥīḥ ) , صَوَاب ( ṣawāb )
Armenian: ճիշտ (hy) ( čišt )
Azerbaijani: düz (az) , doğru (az)
Bashkir: дөрөҫ ( döröθ )
Basque: zuzen , ongi
Belarusian: пра́вільны ( právilʹny ) , ве́рны ( vjérny )
Bulgarian: ве́рен (bg) ( véren ) , пра́вилен (bg) ( právilen )
Burmese: မှန် (my) ( hman )
Chechen: бакъа ( baq̇a )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 正確 , 正确 ( zing3 kok3 )
Mandarin: 正確 (zh) , 正确 (zh) ( zhèngquè )
Czech: správný (cs)
Danish: rigtig (da) , korrekt (da)
Dutch: correct (nl) , juist (nl)
Esperanto: ĝusta , prava (eo)
Estonian: õige (et)
Finnish: oikea (fi)
French: correct (fr) , juste (fr) , bon (fr) , droit (fr) m
Georgian: სწორი ( sc̣ori ) , მართებული ( martebuli ) , მართალი ( martali ) , წესიერი ( c̣esieri ) , სამართლიანი ( samartliani )
German: richtig (de)
Greek: σωστό (el) ( sostó )
Hawaiian: pololei
Hebrew: צוֹדֵק ( tzodék )
Higaonon: bunal
Hindi: ठीक (hi) ( ṭhīk )
Hungarian: helyes (hu)
Icelandic: rétt f or n , réttur (is) m
Ido: korekta (io)
Indonesian: benar (id) , betul (id)
Interlingua: correcte (ia) , juste (ia)
Irish: cóir
Old Irish: uisse , cóir
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: corretto (it)
Japanese: 正しい (ja) ( ただしい, tadashii )
Kabuverdianu: justu
Khmer: ត្រូវ (km) ( trəw )
Korean: 옳다 (ko) ( olta ) , 바르다 (ko) ( bareuda )
Kumyk: тюз ( tüz ) , герти ( gerti ) , дурус ( durus )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: راست (ku) ( rast ) , تەواو (ku) ( tewaw )
Northern Kurdish: rast (ku) , durist (ku)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: rectus , emendatus , elegans
Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: правилен m ( pravilen ) , точен m ( točen ) , исправен ( ispraven )
Malay: betul (ms)
Maltese: korett m , koretta f , tajjeb (mt) m , tajba (mt) f
Navajo: ákótʼé
Norwegian:
Bokmål: riktig (no) , rett (no) , korrekt (no)
Nynorsk: riktig , rett , korrekt
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Ojibwe: gwayak
Persian: درست (fa) ( dorost )
Plautdietsch: rajcht
Polish: poprawny (pl) , prawidłowy (pl) , prawy (pl) , słuszny (pl)
Portuguese: correto (pt) , justo (pt) , certo (pt)
Romanian: drept (ro) , corect (ro)
Russian: пра́вильный (ru) m ( právilʹnyj ) , пра́вый (ru) ( právyj )
Sanskrit: साधु (sa) ( sādhu )
Scottish Gaelic: ceart
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: исправан , точан
Roman: ispravan (sh) , točan (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovene: pravi
Spanish: correcto (es) , justo (es)
Swedish: rätt (sv) , riktig (sv) , korrekt (sv)
Tagalog: tama , wasto
Telugu: సరైన ( saraina ) , సరి (te) ( sari )
Tetum: loos
Thai: ถูก (th) ( tùuk ) , ใช่ (th) ( châi )
Turkish: doğru (tr)
Tuvan: чөптүг ( çöptüg ) , чөп ( çöp )
Ukrainian: пра́вильний (uk) ( právylʹnyj ) , ві́рний ( vírnyj )
Urdu: ٹھیک (ur) ( thīk )
Vietnamese: phải (vi) , đúng (vi) , ( phải='right position' and correct, trái = left and wrong ) có lý (vi)
Volapük: verätik (vo)
Yiddish: ריכטיק ( rikhtik ) ( of a thing ) , גערעכט ( gerekht ) ( of a person )
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
appropriate, fit for purpose
all right, not requiring assistance
— see all right
most favourable or convenient; fortunate
of direction, opposite of left
Afrikaans: regs
Aklanon: tuo
Albanian: djathtë (sq)
Arabic: يَمِين ( yamīn )
Egyptian Arabic: يمين ( yimīn )
Armenian: աջ (hy) ( aǰ )
Assamese: সোঁ ( xü̃ )
Azerbaijani: sağ (az)
Balinese: tengen
Bashkir: уң ( uñ )
Basque: eskuin (eu)
Belarusian: пра́вы ( právy )
Bengali: ডান ( ḍan )
Bikol Central: tuo
Bulgarian: де́сен (bg) ( désen )
Burmese: ညာ (my) ( nya )
Catalan: dret (ca)
Cebuano: tuo
Central Dusun: wanan
Chechen: аьтту ( ättu )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 右 (yue) ( jau6 )
Dungan: ю ( i͡u )
Mandarin: 右 (zh) ( yòu )
Cornish: dyghow
Crimean Tatar: oñ , sağ
Czech: pravý (cs) m
Dalmatian: diastro
Danish: højre (da)
Dolgan: уӈа ( uŋa )
Dutch: rechts (nl) , rechter-
Early Assamese: ডাহিন ( ḍahino )
Esperanto: dekstra (eo)
Estonian: parem
Finnish: oikea (fi) , oikeanpuoleinen (fi)
French: droit (fr) m , droite (fr) f
Georgian: მარჯვენა ( marǯvena )
German: recht (de)
Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍅𐌰 ( taihswa )
Greek: δεξιός (el) ( dexiós )
Ancient: δεξιός ( dexiós )
Guaraní: akatúvape
Hawaiian: ʻākau
Hebrew: יָמִין (he) ( yemín )
Higaonon: kawanan
Hiligaynon: tuô
Hindi: दाहिना (hi) ( dāhinā )
Hungarian: jobb (hu)
Icelandic: hægri (is)
Ido: dextra (io)
Indonesian: kanan (id)
Ingush: аьтта ( ätta )
Interlingua: dextere , dextre (ia)
Irish: deas
Old Irish: dess
Italian: destro (it) m , destra (it) f
Japanese: 右 (ja) ( みぎ, migi )
Javanese: tengen (jv)
Kalmyk: барун ( barun )
Karachay-Balkar: онг ( oñ )
Karaim: он (Trakai)
Kazakh: оң (kk) ( oñ )
Khakas: оң ( oñ ) , онъ ( onʺ )
Khmer: ស្ដាំ (km) ( sdam )
Korean: 오른 (ko) ( oreun ) , 바른 (ko) ( bareun )
Kumyk: онг ( oñ )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: راست (ku) ( rast )
Northern Kurdish: rast (ku) , rastê (ku)
designed to be placed or worn outward
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations .
Translations to be checked
Dutch: (please verify ) rechts (nl) , (please verify ) rechtse (nl) (1), (please verify ) recht (nl) (2), (please verify ) correct (nl) (3), (please verify ) juist (nl) (3), (please verify ) rechtschapen (nl) (3), (please verify ) rechtvaardig (nl) (3), (please verify ) eerlijk (nl) (3), (please verify ) billijk (nl) (3)
Interlingua: (please verify ) dextere , (please verify ) dextre (ia) (1), (please verify ) recte (2), (please verify ) correcte (ia) , (please verify ) juste (ia) (3)
Descendants Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
From Middle English right , righte , from Old English rihte , rehte ( “ right; rightly; due; directly; straight ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *rehta , from *rehtaz ( “ right; straight ” ) .
right (not comparable )
On the right side.
Towards the right side.
Exactly , precisely .
The arrow landed right in the middle of the target.
Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film.
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients :Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
Immediately , directly .
Can't you see it? It's right beside you!
Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view.
( Britain , US , dialect ) Very , extremely , quite .
I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I?
I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much.
1966 , Jacqueline Susann , Valley of the Dolls [1] , page 214:That's long enough for any small town." Lyon leaned forward. "Do you like Lawrenceville, Mr. Hill?" The driver cocked his head. "Aeah. Why not? Born here. It's a right nice town farm
2004 , Jon Sharpe, Nebraska nightmare :Well, that would be right neighborly of you, miss.
2005 , Linda Beaulieu, The Providence and Rhode Island Cookbook , page 63:A right neighborly time.
2006 , Lauraine Snelling, The Reapers' Song , page 286:“Something to eat would be right neighborly Where in tarnation are we?” “We'll be in Minneapolis in an hour or two.”
2008 , Luke Cypher, Red Mesa , page 101:But it would be right neighborly and Christian of you to put your own wants aside for a spell.
2011 , Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain :The fog was right hard to see through so I was on Tom Pritchard before I saw him.
According to fact or truth; actually ; truly ; really .
In a correct manner .
Do it right or don't do it at all.
( dated , still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.
Sir, I am right glad to meet you …
Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life.
The Right Reverend Monsignor Guido Sarducci.
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients :He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.
Usage notes Edit
In the US, the word "right" is used as an adverb meaning "very, quite" in most of the major dialect areas, including the Southern US, Appalachia, New England, and the Midwest, though the usage is not part of standard US English. In the UK also it is not part of the standard language but is regarded as stereotypical of the dialects of northern England, though it occurs in other dialects also.
Quotations Edit
( on the right side ) : rightward , rightwise
( towards the right side ) : rightward , rightways
( exactly, precisely ) : exactly , just , precisely , smack-dab ; see also Thesaurus:exactly
( immediately, directly ) : right smack , slap-bang
( very, extremely ) : ever so ; see also Thesaurus:very
( according to fact or truth ) : in point of fact , in truth ; see also Thesaurus:actually
( correct manner ) : correctly , properly Derived terms Edit
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Translations Edit
according to fact or truth
Interjection Edit
right
Yes, that is correct ; I agree .
I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion .
Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse .
- After that interview, I don't think we should hire her. - Right — who wants lunch?
Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance .
You're going, right ?
Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
1987 , Withnail and I :
Withnail: Right ... I'm gonna do the washing up.Translations Edit
yes, that is correct; I agree
changing the subject in a discussion
checking agreement
Ashkun: ne
Asturian: verdá
Bulgarian: нали? ( nali? )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 对不对 (zh) ( duì bù duì )
Czech: že (cs) ?, viďte ?, ( informal ) viď (cs) ?, (rather formal) že ano ?
Danish: ikke (da) , ikke sandt
Dutch: toch (nl)
Esperanto: ĉu ne?
Finnish: eikö niin
French: non ? (fr) , n'est-ce pas ? (fr) , hein ? (fr)
German: nicht wahr? , oder? (de) , ne? (de)
Greek: έτσι δεν είναι; ( étsi den eínai? )
Greenlandic: ilaa
Hungarian: igaz (hu) , ugye
Italian: vero (it) , no (it)
Japanese: ね? (ja) ( ne? ) , でしょう? ( deshō? )
Kamkata-viri: ne
Kapampangan: ne , na , ewari
Korean: 지 (ko) ( -ji ) , 죠 ( -jo ) , 아이가 ( aiga ) ( Gyeongsang dialectal )
Ladin: chetù? , chevo? , nia?
Latin: nonne (la)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ikke sant (no) , sant (no)
Nynorsk: ikkje sant , sant
Okinawan: なー ( nā )
Persian: درست (fa)
Polish: prawda (pl) , ( colloquial ) co nie , ( colloquial ) nie (pl)
Portuguese: né (pt) , certo (pt)
Prasuni: nā
Romani: na?
Romanian: nu-i așa , da (ro) , nu (ro)
Russian: ве́рно (ru) ( vérno ) , пра́вильно (ru) ( právilʹno ) , не та́к ли? ( ne ták li? )
Spanish: verdad (es) , ¿verdad? (es) , ¿vale? (es) ( Spain ) , ¿no? (es) , ¿cierto? (es)
Swedish: eller hur? (sv) , va? (sv) , inte sant?
Tagalog: diba
Turkish: değil mi?
Venetian: vera
Vietnamese: phải không?
Waigali: nā
adding seriousness or decisiveness before a statement
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 3 Edit
From Middle English right , righte , reght , reghte , riȝt , riȝte , from Old English riht , reht , ġeriht ( “ that which is right, just, or proper; a right; due; law; canon; rule; direction; justice; equity; standard ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *reht , from Proto-Germanic *rehtą ( “ a right ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtom , from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵt- ( “ to straighten; direct ” ) . Cognate with Dutch recht ( “ a right; privilege ” ) , German Recht ( “ a right ” ) .
right (plural rights )
That which complies with justice , law or reason .
We're on the side of right in this contest.
1973 July 22 [July 17, 1973], Chiang, Kai-shek , “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly [2] , volume XIV, number 28, Taipei , ISSN 0016-0318 , OCLC 1786626 , page 1 :Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide.
A legal, just or moral entitlement .
You have no right to go through my personal diary.
1825 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Table Talk
There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
1922 , Michael Arlen , “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days :Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols ”, in The Economist , volume 408, number 8848:Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
The right side or direction.
The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop.
The right hand or fist.
1897 , Bram Stoker , Dracula , published 1993, page 129:"Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right , and he was sprawling on his back on the floor."
The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright .
( politics ) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
The political right holds too much power.
The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
Synonym: ( of fabric ) right side 1890 , The Woman's World , page 434:Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right .
1913 , Woman's Home Companion - Volume 40 , page 40:For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.
1918 , Pacific Rural Press - Volume 95 , page 392:In case there is a right and wrong side to the tops, put two rights together.
( surfing ) A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
Antonym: left
Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
which complies with justice, law or reason
legal or moral entitlement
Albanian: drejtë (sq) f
Arabic: حَقّ (ar) m ( ḥaqq ) , حُقُوق (ar) m pl ( ḥuqūq )
Egyptian Arabic: حقّ m ( ḥaʾʾ )
Armenian: իրավունք (hy) ( iravunkʿ )
Aromanian: ãndreptu
Avar: ихтияр ( iχtijar )
Azerbaijani: hüquq , haqq (az) , ixtiyar (az)
Bashkir: хоҡуҡ ( xoquq ) , хаҡ ( xaq )
Belarusian: пра́ва n ( práva )
Bengali: হক (bn) ( hôk ) , অধিকার (bn) ( ôdhikar )
Bulgarian: пра́во (bg) n ( právo )
Burmese: အခွင့် (my) ( a.hkwang. ) , အခွင့်အရေး (my) ( a.hkwang.a.re: )
Catalan: dret (ca) m
Chechen: бакъо ( baq̇o )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 權利 , 权利 ( kyun4 lei6 )
Dungan: чүанли ( čüanli )
Hakka: 權利 , 权利 ( khièn-li / khiàn-li )
Mandarin: 權利 (zh) , 权利 (zh) ( quánlì )
Min Dong: 權利 , 权利 ( guòng-lé )
Min Nan: 權利 (zh-min-nan) , 权利 ( koân-lī / khoân-lī )
Wu: 權利 , 权利 ( jjyoe li )
Corsican: dirittu , drittu
Czech: právo (cs) n
Danish: ret (da) , rettighed
Dutch: recht (nl) n
Esperanto: rajto (eo)
Estonian: õigus (et)
Finnish: oikeus (fi)
French: droit (fr) m
Galician: dereito (gl) m
Georgian: უფლება ( upleba )
German: Recht (de) n
Greek: δικαίωμα (el) n ( dikaíoma )
Haitian Creole: dwa
Hebrew: זְכוּת (he) f ( zkhut )
Hindi: अधिकार (hi) m ( adhikār ) , हक़ m ( haq )
Hungarian: jog (hu) , jogosultság (hu)
Icelandic: réttindi (is) n pl
Ido: yuro (io)
Indonesian: hak (id)
Interlingua: derecto
Irish: ceart m
Old Irish: recht m
Italian: diritto (it) m
Japanese: 権利 (ja) ( けんり, kenri )
Kazakh: құқық ( quqıq )
Korean: 권리 (ko) ( gwolli )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ماف (ku) ( maf )
Northern Kurdish: maf (ku) m , heq (ku) f
Kyrgyz: укук (ky) ( uquq )
Lao: ສິດທິ (lo) ( sit thi )
Latin: iūs (la) n
Latvian: tiesības m
Lezgi: ихтияр ( iχtiär )
Lithuanian: teisė (lt) f
Macedonian: право n ( pravo )
Malay: hak (ms)
Malayalam: അവകാശം (ml) ( avakāśaṃ )
Maori: mōtika
Mongolian: эрх (mn) ( erkh )
Moore: dʋrwa , kõn-mongre , segdenga
Nepali: अधिकार ( adhikār )
Norman: drouait m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rett (no) m , riktighet m or f
Nynorsk: rett m , riktigheit f
Persian: حق (fa) ( haqq ) , حقوق (fa) pl ( hoquq )
Polish: prawo (pl) n
Portuguese: direito (pt) m
Romanian: drept (ro) n
Romansch: dretg
Russian: пра́во (ru) n ( právo ) , права́ (ru) pl ( pravá )
Scottish Gaelic: còir f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: право n
Roman: pravo (sh) n
Slovak: právo n
Slovene: pravica (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pšawo n
Spanish: derecho (es) m
Swahili: haki (sw)
Swedish: rätt (sv) c , rättighet (sv) c
Tagalog: karapatan (tl)
Tajik: ҳуқуқ (tg) ( huquq ) , ҳақ ( haq )
Tatar: хак (tt) ( xaq )
Telugu: హక్కు (te) ( hakku )
Thai: สิทธิ (th) ( sìt-tí )
Turkish: hak (tr)
Turkmen: hak
Ukrainian: пра́во (uk) n ( právo )
Urdu: حق (ur) m ( haq ) , حقوق pl ( huqūq )
Uzbek: huquq (uz) , haq (uz)
Vietnamese: quyền lợi (vi) , quyền (vi)
Welsh: hawl (cy) , rhaith ( historic )
Yiddish: רעכט n ( rekht )
Zhuang: genzli (權利 )
right-wing politicians and parties
Etymology 4 Edit
From Middle English righten , reghten , riȝten , from Old English rihtan , ġerihtan ( “ to straighten, judge, set upright, set right ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan , from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną ( “ to straighten; rectify; judge ” ) .
right (third-person singular simple present rights , present participle righting , simple past and past participle righted )
( transitive ) To correct .
Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible.
( transitive ) To set upright .
The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile.
( intransitive ) To return to normal upright position.
When the wind died down, the ship righted .
( transitive ) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
to right the oppressed
c. 1593 , William Shakespeare , “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: [ … ] ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ward] Blount , published 1623, OCLC 606515358 , (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :So just is God, to right the innocent.
1776 , Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Declaration of Independence
All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
to correct
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: راست کردن ( rast kirdin )
Northern Kurdish: sererast kirin (ku) , rast kirin (ku) , durist kirin (ku)
Latin: corrigo
Macedonian: поправа n ( poprava ) , исправа n ( isprava ) , кореги́ра n ( koregíra )
Polish: prostować (pl) impf , sprostować pf , wyprostować (pl) pf , poprawiać (pl) impf , poprawić (pl) pf , korygować (pl) impf , skorygować (pl) pf
Portuguese: corrigir (pt)
Romanian: corecta (ro) , îndrepta (ro)
Russian: исправля́ть (ru) impf ( ispravljátʹ ) , испра́вить (ru) pf ( isprávitʹ ) , поправля́ть (ru) ( popravljátʹ ) , попра́вить (ru) ( poprávitʹ )
Serbo-Croatian: ispraviti (sh)
Slovene: popravljati , popraviti
Spanish: corregir (es)
Swedish: rätta (sv) , korrigera (sv) ( minor corrections )
Thai: แก้ (th) ( gɛ̂ɛ )
Turkish: düzeltmek (tr)
Welsh: reit
(intransitive) to return to normal upright position
Further reading Edit
right at OneLook Dictionary Search
“right ” in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.