correct, right · upright, honest · whole, complete, entire, exact
çekim: karşılaştırma درستتَر · üstünlük درستتَرین
zıt: نادرست
köken: From Middle Persian drw(y)st' (drust, “right; well, healthy”), from Old Persian *dᵘruvišta, from Proto-Iranian *druwištah. Compare Baluchi دْراه (drāh, “well, healthy”).
çekim: karşılaştırma toʻgʻriroq · üstünlük eng toʻgʻri
köken: Inherited from Chagatai توغری (toğri), from Proto-Turkic *togru. Cognate with Turkmen dogry, Uyghur توغرا (toghra), Kyrgyz туура (tuura), Turkish doğru.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain”), past participle of cernō (“to sift; to discern”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to move; to separate”).
true, straight, unwarped, unskewed, proper · correct, right, true · 貞しい: righteous, having integrity, not bending to others' wills
köken: Derived from 直 (tada, “straight; direct; straightforward”) + し (-shi, adjective-forming suffix, origin of and superseded by modern しい (shii)). First appears in 858 CE in the 大智度論 (Daichido-ron), the Japanese rendering of the Chinese text Da zhidu lun. Used primarily in 漢文訓読 (kanbun kundoku, “Japanese-language readings of Classical Chinese texts”, literally “Chinese text, meaning (Japanese)…
right, correct, accurate, appropriate, proper · good, okay, fine · immediate; very close, direct, or adjacent
köken: Etymology tree Proto-New Indo-Aryan *ठीक्क (ṭhīkka) Hindi ठीक Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *ठीक्क (ṭhīkka, “firm, upright”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit स्थि॒त (sthitá, “situated”), whence Hindi स्थित (sthit) and था (thā). Cognate with Punjabi ਠੀਕ /ٹھِیک (ṭhīk), Gujarati ઠીક (ṭhīk), Sindhi ٺيِڪُ /ठीकु (ṭhyiku), Marathi ठीक (ṭhīk), Odia ଠିକ (ṭhika), Bengali ঠিক (ṭhik), Assamese ঠিক…
çekim: karşılaştırma helyesebb · üstünlük leghelyesebb
zıt: helytelen, hibás, csúnya, nem szép
köken: From hely (“place”) + -es (“having, with”, adjective-forming suffix). Sense development: * The original meaning was literally having a plot of land. First attested in 1211. * The abstract meaning correct; corresponding to reality evolved from the above. First attested in 1527. For a similar approach, compare Russian место (mesto, “place”) > уместный (umestnyj, “relevant, pertinent”), or English…
Inherited from the Hellenistic Koine Greek σωστός (sōstós, “saved”). The modern meaning ("correct"), since the mediaeval period. Verbal adjective of the ancient verb σῴζω (sōízō, “to save”), modern σώζω (sózo), hence literally "safe and sound; secure; sure, certain".