köken: Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.
horseman, horsewoman, rider (someone who rides a horse) · light cavalry
çekim: çoğul jinetes
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish ginete, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic زَنَاتِي (zanáti), the Zenati or Zenata Berbers, known as excellent horse breeders. Cognate with Galician xinete and Portuguese ginete.
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cavaleiro, from Late Latin caballārius, from caballus (“horse”) + -ārius. By surface analysis, cavalo (“horse”) + -eiro. Doublet of cavalheiro, through Spanish caballero.
a rider (a mounted person) · a horseman, an equestrian
çekim: çoğul ryttares · tamlayan ryttares
köken: Calque of Dutch ruiter (via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German), equivalent to rida (“to ride”) + -are (“-er”). Compare Danish rytter, German Reuter.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian سوار (sawār, “rider”), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼 (a-s-b-a-r /asabāra-/, “horseman”), from Proto-Iranian *Hacwabāráh. Cognate with Bengali সওয়ার (śoōẇar), Gujarati સવાર (savār), Kannada ಸವಾರ (savāra), Marathi स्वार (svār), Punjabi ਸਵਾਰ (savār).
köken: Etymology tree Latin adiciō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin adiectiō From adiciō + -tiō.
rider, horseman · rider (of a bike or a motorbike)
çekim: çoğul ryttere · tamlayan rytters
köken: Via Middle Low German rūter from Dutch ruiter (“horseman”), from Middle French routier (“brigand”), from route (“road”) + -ier (Latinized as Medieval Latin ruptarius). The Dutch word was also borrowed to German Reuter (“cavalryman”), Swedish ryttare (“rider”).