a sponge cake, i.e. a cake made with a chemical leavening agent (e.g. baking powder), making it light and airy (as opposed to a denser torte) · a cookie
çekim: çoğul gâteaux
köken: Inherited from Middle French gasteau, from Old French gastel, from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat; consume”). Compare Old English wist (“food; provision; feast”) and obsolete English wastel, Sicilian guasteḍḍa (“a kind of round bread”).
aile: cerise sur le gâteau, c'est du gâteau, fourchette à gâteau, gâteau de Noël, gâteau de riz, gâteau de voyage, gâteau mille crêpes, gâteau sec, gâteau sous la cerise, part du gâteau
köken: Literally, “on (a) dry stick”. The phrase dates back to the 18th century sailors who would eat the bare minimum during violent storms, when the mast (the "stick") would be bare of sails ("dry").
köken: From Middle Persian *sādag, whence also Arabic سَاذَج (sāḏaj). Compare Bactrian σαδγο (sadgo, “plain, even”) and Old Armenian սատակ (satak), a Middle Iranian loanword.
aile: سادگی
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köken: Derived from Persian یابانی (yābānī /yâbâni, “wildness”). Cognate with Kazakh жабайы (jabaiy), Kyrgyz жапайы (japayı, “simple; wild, not domesticated”), Uzbek yovvoyi (“wild, not domesticated”), Uyghur ياۋايى (yawayi), Turkmen ýabany, Turkish yabani.
köken: From Old Swedish enkil, from Middle Low German enkel, from Proto-Germanic *ainkila-, equivalent to en (“one”) + -el. Compare etymology of English simple. Cognate with Danish enkel, enkelt, Norwegian enkel, Icelandic ekkil, Dutch enkel and Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌺𐌻𐍃 (ainakls). Compare also Latin singulus with the same suffix. See also änka (“widow”) and änkling (“widower”).
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easy, simple (requiring little skill or effort) · easy (consenting readily to sex)
çekim: karşılaştırma łatwiejszy · üstünlük najłatwiejszy
eş: nietrudny, essa
zıt: trudny
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *latvъ Old Polish łatwy Polish łatwy Inherited from Old Polish łatwy, from Proto-Slavic *latvъ. The adjective may have originally meant "capable of being caught without difficulty", whence a semantic shift to "easy, simple".
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian آسان (āsān), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭮𐭠𐭭 (āsān). Compare Bengali আসান (aśan), Gujarati આસાન (āsān), Marathi आसान (āsān), Punjabi ਅਸਾਨ (asān).
simple, uncomplicated (taken by itself, with nothing added) · simple · simple, unadorned, plain (without ornamentation)
çekim: karşılaştırma egyszerűbb · üstünlük legegyszerűbb
zıt: bonyolult, komplex, komplikált, összetett
köken: From egy (“one”) + -szerű (“-like, resembling”, adjective-forming suffix). The original meaning was one-part, composed of one part which later developed into not complicated and unadorned.
aile: egyszerűen, egyszerűség, egyszerűsít, egyszerűsödik, pofonegyszerű, egyszerű harmonikus rezgőmozgás, egyszerű mondat, egyszerű, mint a kétszerkettő, egyszerű, mint a pofon
single · simple, plain, uncompounded · pure, unmixed
çekim: karşılaştırma simplicior · üstünlük simplicissimus
köken: From sem- (“one; single-”) + -plex (“-fold”). The first element (from Proto-Indo-European *sem-, *sm̥-) does not occur independently in Latin, but is also seen in semel (“once”) and semper (“always, forever”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *sm̥-plak-s, but also reconstructs Proto-Italic *-plek-s.
aile: simplicābilis, simplicitās, simpliciter
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