köken: Originally imitative of the noise a pig makes.
aile: avoir des yeux de cochon, avoir élevé les cochons ensemble, avoir gardé les cochons ensemble, caractère de cochon, cochon de lait, cochon de mer, cochon d'Inde, cochon marron, cochonnaille, cochonne
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HZWLYA) / [Book Pahlavi needed] (hwk' /hūg/), from Proto-Iranian *huHkáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *suH-, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂kéh₂, from *suH-. Possibly cognate with English hog.
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) · a swine, a dirty, gross or foul person · a student who does not belong to a student society; one who is neither a frat boy nor a soror
çekim: çoğul varkens
eş: zwijn
köken: From Middle Dutch varken, verken, from Old Dutch farkīn, ferkīn, an old diminutive, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *farhaz (Proto-West Germanic *farh) + Proto-Germanic *-ukaz (Proto-Germanic *-ukīn, with another diminutive suffix attached). Compare Central Franconian Ferke, Low German Farken.
pig (the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa) · pork; swineflesh · pig (dirty or slovenly person)
çekim: çoğul porcos
eş: barrão, cachaça, cerdo, cevado, chacim, chico
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”). Compare Galician porco.
aile: emporcalhado, emporcalhar, espírito de porco, ir com os porcos, porcalho, porcaria, porco-bravo, porco-d'água, porco-da-índia, porco-da-terra
köken: From Byzantine Greek γουρούνιν (gouroúnin), earlier γουρούνιον (gouroúnion), from Koine Greek [Term?], from a diminutive of Ancient Greek γρώνη (grṓnē, “grunt”), from γρῦ (grû, “a small sound”).
aile: αγριογούρουνο
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köken: From Early Modern Korean 되야지 (twoyyaci), 도야지 (doyaji). Appears to be related to Middle Korean 돝 (twòth). Perhaps from unattested *돌 (*dol, “pig, swine”) + -아지 (-aji, “diminutive suffix”) with a development similar to 말 (mal) and 망아지 (mang'aji) with the latter's dialectal and historical forms such as Korean 매아지 (maeaji) and Middle Korean ᄆᆞ야지 (moyaci), ᄆᆡ야지 (moyyaci), which seem to phonologically…
mould/mold (hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance) · die (mold for forming metal or plastic objects) · mould/mold, cutter (for shaping food)
çekim: çoğul muotit · tamlayan muotin
köken: Borrowed from Old Swedish mōt (“mold, cast”), from Old Norse mót. Doublet of muoto.
As a word unknown in Classical Arabic, where one uses خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr), it is most commonly considered of Berber origin, the exact derivation varying. Compare Tashelhit ilf (“pig”).