to distinguish, to differentiate (to recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics) · to distinguish, to differentiate (to show or be the difference or distinction between things) · to distinguish (to make noticeably different or better than others through accomplishments)
çekim: geçmiş διέκρινα · ortaç διακεκριμένος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διακρίνω (diakrínō) (via Byzantine Greek) with semantic loan from French se distinguer (“to distinguish oneself”).
to recognize/recognise (match in memory; know from a previous encounter) · to identify (establish the identity of someone or something) · to identify (establish the taxonomic classification of an organism)
çekim: geçmiş tunnistanut · şimdiki tunnistaisi · ulaç tunnistava
köken: tunn- (“to be familiar with, recognize”) + -istaa. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1860 after Veps tundištada.
çekim: geçmiş distins · ortaç distins · şimdiki să distingă
köken: Borrowed from French distinguer, from Latin distinguere, with conjugation based on Romanian stinge. Cf. also the earlier (now obsolete, attested 17th century) variant destinge, itself possibly inherited from the same Latin source.