köken: From Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source. Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation…
köken: Inherited from Old French lentille, from Vulgar Latin *lenticla, from syncopation of Latin lenticula. The "lens" meaning is because early lenses resembled lentils.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *lenticla, from syncopation of Latin lenticula (compare French lentille, Italian lenticchia, Portuguese lentilha), diminutive form of lēns, lentis (“lentil”). Doublet of lentilla.
aile: ganarse las lentejas, lenteja de agua, lenteja turca, lentejar, lentejuela, venderse por un plato de lentejas
lentil, the plant Lens culinaris (legume) · lentil, the seed of Lens culinaris (pulse)
çekim: çoğul linzen
köken: From Middle Dutch lins, lynsen, from Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source. Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese lentilha (compare Galician lentella), from Vulgar Latin *lenticla (compare Spanish lenteja, Catalan llentilla), from syncopation of Latin lenticula (“lentil”), diminutive of lēns (“lentil bean”). Compare lentícula, a borrowed doublet; cf. also lenticela.
lentil (seed used as food) · lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
çekim: çoğul lencsék
köken: First attested in c. 1325. Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Macedonian леќа (leḱa), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča. First used in the sense of plant. Later, after German influence, it also emerged as a medical term (in anatomy) [1787] and in optics [1799]. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa, being probably…
köken: Unknown, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source. Compare Old High German linsa (“lentil”), Lithuanian lęšis (“lentil”), Proto-Slavic *lęťa (“lentil”), and Albanian lend (“acorn”), sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. May also be related to Ancient Greek λάθυρος (láthuros). If ultimately a non-IE substrate…
aile: lenticula, lentīgō
Etimoloji
From Persian مرجومک (marjomak), vulgarized from Persian مردمک (mardomak, “pupil of the eye”).