Definitions For Tughra

Noun

TUGHRA (plural TUGHRAs) A calligraphic signature of an Ottoman sultan (and some other rulers to the present day) that was affixed to official documents, carved on his seal, and stamped on coins and inscribed on some stamps issued during his reign.

Translations

Arabic: طغراء Bulgarian: тура, sc=Cyrl Dutch: tughra Finnish: tughra French: tuğra German: Tughra Hebrew: טורה, sc=Hebr Hungarian: tuğra Italian: tughra Japanese: トゥグラ, sc=Jpan (tugura) Kazakh: Тұғра, sc=Cyrl Latvian: tugra Lithuanian: tugra Norwegian: tugra Ottoman Turkish: طغرا (tuğra, sc=ota-Arab) Persian: طغرا, tr=toğrâ, sc=fa-Arab Polish: tugra Portuguese: tugra, f Russian: тугра Serbo-Croatian: tugra, tughra Slovene: tugra Spanish: tughra Swedish: tugra Thai: ตราพระปรมาภิไธยทูกรา Turkish: tuğra

Alternative forms

toughra

Etymology

Borrowed from {{bor, en, tr, tuğra}},"toughra." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online) from {{der, en, ota, طغرا, tr=tuğra}}.

Anagrams

ghutra, raught

Is Tughra a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Tughra is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

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