eş: chandelle, cierge, sonde, cathéter, bougie de Chamberland, bougie de démarrage
köken: From Bougie, the French name for the Algerian town of Béjaïa بجاية, formerly known for exporting candle wax. Attested 1300 for "fine candle wax", and 1493 for "candle made from such wax".
köken: From the root ص ن ب ر (ṣ n b r) meaning “bitter cold”, “weather requiring hardiness to endure”, a variant of ص ب ر (ṣ b r) “enduring”, “patient”, “persevering”; so named for the tree being a winter-enduring evergreen tree. Possibly compare Akkadian 𒌑𒈛𒈥𒌅 (^(U₂)LUḪ.MAR.TU /šibburratu, sibbirru, sinpirru/, “date palm; aromatic herb”).
Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)
köken: From a Mongolic source according to Räsänen, see Middle Mongol *qaraɣai (“pine tree”). Cognate with Tatar карагай (qarağay, “larch tree”), Khakas харағай (xarağay, “pine tree”), Southern Altai карагай (karagay), Shor, Kazakh қарағай (qarağai), Karakalpak, Uzbek qarag'ay (“pine tree”), Uyghur قارىغاي (qarighay, “pine, spruce”), Kyrgyz карагай (karagay, “spruce”), Karachay-Balkar къаракъай…
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köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cẽa (“dinner (evening meal)”), from Latin cēna (“dinner (evening meal)”), from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-sna, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker-. Compare Galician cea, Spanish and Italian cena.
Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)
Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀔𑀸𑀡 (khāṇa), from Sanskrit खादन (khādana, “the act of eating; food”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-). Doublet of खान (khān) and खादन (khādan).
Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)