pledge, guarantee · deposit, security, guaranty (guarantee that debt will be paid; property relinquished to ensure this) · forfeit (something deposited as part of a game)
çekim: çoğul gages
köken: Inherited from Middle French gage, from Old French gage, guage, from Early Medieval Latin wadius (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Frankish *waddī.
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (glwb' /graw/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *grabʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (gar^əβ, “to seize”), Sanskrit ग्रभ् (grabh), English grab. Related to گرفتن (gereftan, “to take”).
köken: From *ant (“oath”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (and, “oath”) (in Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk); Uzbek ont (“oath”), Uyghur ئانت (ant, “oath”), Turkmen ant (“oath”), Turkish ant (“oath”), Western Yugur at (“oath”), etc.
promise, pledge · rising star, emerging talent, promising talent (person) · nomination whist, oh well (card game in which one aims to winning exactly the bid number of tricks)
From Middle High German swuor, from Old High German swuor, from Proto-Germanic *swōraz (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to speak, swear”). Compare English swear and Vilamovian śwür.