to squash · to obliterate · to mash (vegetables), to crush (garlic)
çekim: geçmiş écrasé · ortaç écrasé · şimdiki écrase · ulaç écrasant
eş: écrabouiller, surécrire, dormir comme un loir, dormir à poings fermés, dormir comme une masse
köken: From Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. More at craze.
aile: chiens écrasés, écrasement, écrase-merde, écraser une mouche avec un marteau
dwarf (small human; small specimen, breed or species of animal) · dwarf (small folkloristic humanoid)
çekim: çoğul dwergen
köken: From Middle Dutch dwerch, from Old Dutch *dwerg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Compare West Frisian dwerch, German Zwerg, English dwarf, Danish dværg.
dwarf (person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body) · dwarf (animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort) · dwarf, dwarf star (star of relatively small size)
çekim: çoğul νάνοι · tamlayan νάνου
köken: From Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).
aile: λευκός νάνος
Ο Τύριον Λάννιστερ στο «Game of Thrones» είναι νάνος.
köken: First attested in the Bak Tongsa eonhae (朴通事諺解 / 박통사언해), 1677, as Early Modern Korean 난장이 (Yale: nancang.i). Possibly equivalent to 낮- (nat-, “low”) + -은 (-eun) + -쟁이 (-jaeng'i).
çekim: karşılaştırma törpébb · üstünlük legtörpébb
köken: Nominalization of the present participle (formed with -e (obsolete present-participle suffix)) of an unattested stem, from töpik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”) + -r (frequentative suffix); compare töpörödik (“to wither, dry up; (of a person) to shrink; (of skin) to wrinkle”). The current form developed by metathesis and the reduction of the second vowel.…