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Etymology
From, from , (Mercian) , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), extension of  (possibly also 🇨🇬 from the same root). More at . For the semantic development, compare 🇨🇬 from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
 * 2) Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
 * 3)  Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
 * 4) Loyal, faithful.
 * 5)  Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
 * 6)  Accurate; following a path toward the target.
 * 7)  Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
 * 8)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 9)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
 * 2) Loyal, faithful.
 * 3)  Genuine; legitimate; valid; sensu stricto.
 * 4)  Accurate; following a path toward the target.
 * 5)  Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
 * 6)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 7)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  Accurate; following a path toward the target.
 * 2)  Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
 * 3)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 4)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  Accurate; following a path toward the target.
 * 2)  Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
 * 3)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 4)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  Accurate; following a path toward the target.
 * 2)  Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation.
 * 3)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 4)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
 * 2)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  based on actual historical events.
 * 1)  based on actual historical events.

Antonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:untrue

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аиаша
 * Acehnese: beuna
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: እውነት
 * Arabic:, ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: حقيقي
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: שרירא, שרירתא
 * Syriac: ܫܪܝܪܐ, ܫܪܝܪܬܐ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: আচল, সঁচা
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: ысын
 * Basque: egiazko
 * Belarusian: ве́рны,, праўдзі́вы
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro: akachelo'ta
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏙᎯᏳ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuukese: ennet
 * Cornish: gwir
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Fijian: dina
 * Finnish:, tosi-,
 * French:
 * Friulian: vêr
 * Galician: verdadeiro
 * Georgian: ნამდვილი, მართალი, ჭეშმარიტი
 * German:, , , , stimmig, , ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀληθής, ἀληθινός, ὤν, ἐτεός, ἐτήτυμος, ἔτυμος , ὀρθός
 * Haitian Creole: vre
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: bunal
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tosi
 * Iranun: benar
 * Irish: fíor
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: tutu
 * Khmer:, ពិតមែន
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: patiess
 * Lombard:
 * Malay: benar
 * Maori:
 * Maranao: benar, betol, totoo
 * Mongolian:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old English: sōþ
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: ver
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: chiqa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian: beru
 * Scottish Gaelic: fìor
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene: resničen
 * Southern Ohlone: amane
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠌꠣ
 * Tagalog: totoo
 * Tamil: உண்மையான
 * Tetum: loos
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བདེན་པ
 * Tocharian B: empreṃ, trik-
 * Tok Pisin: tru
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: cà rình, ca rại
 * Ukrainian: ві́рний, і́стинний,
 * Urdu:, سچ, صحیح
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: tseeb
 * Yiddish: אמת, אמתדיק
 * Zazaki: raştıkên


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חיובי
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: fíor
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: resnično,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བདེན་པ
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:


 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: שרירא, שרירתא
 * Syriac: ܫܪܝܪܐ, ܫܪܝܪܬܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: тоғро
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tosi-
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πιστός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: firmus,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: a kweli
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English: ġetrīewe
 * Oromo: dhugaa
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìleas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: విశ్వాస పాత్రుడు
 * Tibetan: དྲང་པོ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ві́рний
 * Volapük:


 * Arabic: حَقِيقِيّ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ысын
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ნამდვილი
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: fíor
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: īsts, īstens
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English: sōþ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fìor
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: నిష్కపటం
 * Tok Pisin: tru
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: đích thực
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: tseeb


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Galician: verdadeiro
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: fíor
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: īsts, īstens
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: sōþ
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan: ཁྲིམས་མཐུན, ལུགས་མཐུན, ལུགས་མཐུན་དྲང་བདེན་གྱི
 * Tok Pisin: tru
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: tseeb


 * Arabic:
 * Cebuano:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Mandarin: (zhēnshí),  (zhēnde),  (zhèngquè)
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

Adverb

 * 1)  Accurately.
 * 2)  Truthfully.
 * 1)  Truthfully.
 * 1)  Truthfully.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მართლად
 * German:, , , , klangtreu
 * Japanese:
 * White Hmong: tseeb

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being in alignment.
 * 2)  Truth.
 * 3)  A pledge or truce.
 * 1)  Truth.
 * 2)  A pledge or truce.
 * 1)  Truth.
 * 2)  A pledge or truce.

Translations

 * German:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Telugu:

Verb

 * 1) To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight).
 * 2) To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.
 * 1) To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

Usage notes

 * Often followed by up.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , , , , , , , , , ,
 * Greek: αληθεύει
 * Japanese: 正しく調整する, 正確に
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan: ཚད་མཉམ་བཟོ, དྲང་པོ་བཟོ

Etymology
From, , cognate with 🇨🇬. The verb is related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (= ), but apparently not to 🇨🇬 (= ) or 🇨🇬 (= ).

Verb

 * 1) to threaten

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to threaten

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to threaten