थुनलाइगिरि, मुद्रायारि आरो दानरेब्थायारि फोरमानथिफोरा, बेखौ रोखा खालामो दि तुगलकआ राजफोलेरनि गायसनगिरि गियात अल-दीननि हार्सिङारि मुंमोन, आजौ-आजैनि बिमुं नङामोन।
Literary, numismatic and epigraphic evidence makes it clear that Tughluq was the personal name of the dynasty's founder Ghiyath al-Din, and not an ancestral designation.