poultry (meat from birds) · poultry (birds raised for their meat)
çekim: çoğul Geflügeln · tamlayan Geflügels
eş: Federvieh, Ziefer, Geflügelfleisch, Federwild, Engel
köken: Inherited from Old High German gifugili. The expected modern form is *Gefügel, a collective form pertaining to Vogel (“bird”), cf. similar Dutch gevogelte. The connection with Vogel was lost in German and the word was at some point re-interpreted as Geflügel, that is “creatures with wings; winged ones”. Cf. Flügel (“wing”).
chicken · chick · cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
çekim: çoğul puilor · tamlayan puiului
köken: Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.
a bird of the order Galliformes, · fowl · the meat from this bird eaten as food
çekim: çoğul ayam-ayam
köken: Inherited from Malay ayam, from hayam, from Proto-Malayic *hayam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayam. Semantic loan from Chinese 雞/鸡 (“female prostitute”, literally “chicken”).