recht

From German recht.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛxt]

recht

1. (colloquial) correct, suitable

   Tobě taky nic není recht. ― Nothing suits you. (You are hard to please.)

• mít recht
• dát recht

• recht in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• recht in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /rɛxt/

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• Hyphenation: recht
• Rhymes: -ɛxt

From Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

recht (comparative rechter, superlative rechtst)

1. right (direction)
2. straight

   in een rechte lijn

   in a straight line

   Antonym: krom

• kaarsrecht
• rechtop (“upright, erect”)
• rechts

• Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
• Jersey Dutch: rääxt
• Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
• → Papiamentu: rècht
• → Saramaccan: leti

From Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *rehta, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą, a substantive derivation of the adjective.

recht n (plural rechten, diminutive rechtje n)

1. a right, competence, authority, privilege

   Je hebt het recht niet om dat te doen!

   You don't have the right to do that!

2. justice

   Noemt u dit recht? Ik noem dit onrecht.

   Do you call this justice? I call this injustice.

   Deze kale vloer doet het huis geen recht aan.

   This boring floor doesn't do the house any justice.

3. jurisprudence, the law

   Het recht omtrent cybercriminaliteit is momenteel nog erg onduidelijk.

   Jurisprudence concerning cybercrime is currently still very unclear.

   Het recht heeft beslist.

   The law has decided.

4. a formal fee, custom, duty to be paid.

• Afrikaans: reg
• Negerhollands: recht, regt
• → Caribbean Javanese: rèh
• → Saramaccan: leti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

recht

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of rechten
2. imperative of rechten

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht (“right, straight”).

• (Germany) IPA^(key): /ʁɛçt/, [ʁɛçtʰ]
• (Austria, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /rɛçt/, [rɛçtʰ]
• Rhymes: -ɛçt

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recht (strong nominative masculine singular rechter, comparative rechter, superlative am rechtesten or (very rare) am rechtsten)

1. right (direction)
2. proper, correct
3. true, real
4. just, lawful

• rechte Hand f (“right hand; right hand, right-hand man”)
• rechter Winkel

recht

1. very, quite, rather, pretty, fairly

   Es ist recht warm heute Abend. ― It's quite warm tonight.

   recht klein ― smallish

2. well, right

   ganz recht ― that's right

3. exactly

• Recht n (“a right, privilege; a title, claim; the law”)
• recht haben

• “recht” in Duden online
• “recht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht. Compare German recht, Dutch recht.

• IPA^(key): /reçt/

recht (comparative rechter, superlative rechtest)

1. right

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht.

recht

1. straight, not bent
2. upright
3. right, exact
4. righteous
5. lawful, rightful
6. true

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: recht
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
  • Jersey Dutch: rääxt
  • Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: rècht
  • → Saramaccan: leti
• Limburgish: rèch

From Old Dutch reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht, a substantive derivation of the adjective.

recht n

1. law, right, duty
2. righteousness, justness
3. justice, jurisprudence, law
4. jurisdiction
5. right, what one is entitled to by law
6. truth

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: recht
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: rekti
  • Jersey Dutch: rääxt
  • Negerhollands: recht, rek, ret, tret, regt
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: tret (dated)
  • → Papiamentu: rècht
  • → Saramaccan: leti
• Limburgish: rèch

• “recht (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “recht (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “recht (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “recht (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

Derivative of Old Irish recht (“law, lawfulness”)

recht

1. law-abiding person, person of legal status

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• rect

• IPA^(key): /r͈ʲext/

From Proto-Celtic *rextus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-tus. Cognate with Welsh rhaith (“a right, entitlement”) (from Proto-Brythonic *rreiθ (“rule, law”)) and indirectly German Recht (“law”) (from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right, privilege”)).

recht m (genitive rechto or rechta, nominative plural rechtae)

1. law
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^b1

     massu rect fíriánigedar cách

     if it is law that justifies everyone

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbiad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 77^a12

     Air du·roimnibetar mo popuil-se a rrecht dia n‑uilemarbae-siu a náimtea .i. mani bé nech fris·chomarr doibsom ⁊ ⟨du⟩da·imchomarr dia chomalnad tri fochaidi ⁊ ingraimmen.

     For my peoples will forget their law if you sg kill all their enemies, i.e. if there is no one who will hurt them and constrain them to fulfill it through tribulations and persecutions.

• Irish: reacht
• Scottish Gaelic: reachd

Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care for, worry about”). If so, ultimately cognate to Etymology 1 above.[1]

recht m

1. paroxysm, outburst (of anger, passion, etc.)

• rechtmar (“passionate, furious”, adjective)

• Irish: racht

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht. Compare German recht, Dutch recht.

recht

1. right-hand

Borrowed from German recht, from Middle High German rëht, from Old High German reht, from Proto-West Germanic *reht.

recht

1. right!

   Mosz recht. ― You're right.