a wizard · a horsetail (tall fern with leaves resembling pine needles)
çekim: çoğul eunjers
eş: unger, unjer, heks, tovenaar, geest, spook
köken: Often related to Ungaar, Hungaar (equivalent to modern Hongaar), meaning "Hungarian", but recent etymologists have cast doubt upon this etymology. A connection to Middle Dutch onghehier (“monstrosity; monstrous”) (modern onguur) has been proposed.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀉𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (uajjhāa), 𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (ujjhāa), from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya, “teacher [of the Vedas]”). Notably borrowed into Middle Chinese 和尚 (MC hwa|hwaH dzyang|dzyangH, “high priest, head monk”). Doublet of उपाध्याय (upādhyāy) and ख़्वाजा (xvājā).
witch (person who uses magic) · witch, hag (an older, and stereotypically unsightly, woman who uses magic) · a person, such as a sage or shaman, with perceived supernatural powers
çekim: çoğul noidat · tamlayan noidan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *noita (“shaman”) (compare Estonian nõid), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *nojta (compare Northern Sami noaidi (“shaman”)).
magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian) · one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus · by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer
çekim: çoğul magi · tamlayan magului
köken: Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.