to pledge, commit · to hire, sign, snap up · to involve
çekim: geçmiş engagé · ortaç engagé · şimdiki engage · ulaç engageant
köken: From Middle French, from Old French engagier (“to pawn, make a pledge, plight”), from en- + gage (“pledge”), from Late Latin vadium (“pledge”), from Frankish *wadja (“pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *wadjō, *wadją (“pledge, guarantee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“guarantee, bail”). Cognate with Middle Dutch wedde (“property, pay”), Old High German wetti (“collateral, security agreement”),…
bead · shell of a mollusk or particularly the smaller kind thereof · vertebra
çekim: çoğul مهرگان
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwhlk' /muhrag/, “bead, vertebra, piece (in backgammon, etc.)”). Compare Parthian [script needed] (mwhrg /muhrag/). Equivalent to مهر (mohr, “seal”) + ـه (-e). Note especially the meanings of a polished parchment or papyrus found in Arabic مُهْرَق (muhraq), apart from Old Armenian մուրհակ (murhak, “deed”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic מוהרק (mūhraq, “writ”)…
köken: Compound of い (i, emphatic marker) and し (shi, originally -si, emphatic marker). As -i was archaic even in Old Japanese, -si was attached to supplement it.
puppet, marionette (any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove) · doll (a toy in the form of a human) · pin, bowling pin
çekim: çoğul bábuk
köken: Onomatopoeic, of uncertain origin. Possibly from báb (“puppet, dummy”) + -u (diminutive suffix) (compare anyu, apu), or from baba (“baby; doll”).
köken: Disputed. Often hypothesized as from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂t- (“to grant; to possess”) or *leh₁-t- (“to let, grant, provide”), when compared with Ancient Greek λάτρις (látris, “hired servant”) and Proto-Germanic *lēþą (“ownership, possession”). However, Beekes rejects an Indo-European etymology on phonetic grounds and instead posits Pre-Greek origin for the Greek; he believes Latin latrō is…