lion · faucet, tap · tiger (sometimes also applied to the leopard)
çekim: çoğul شیرها
köken: From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”). Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is from the fact that the first taps in Iran looked like lion heads.
aile: تولهشیر, شیر دریایی, شیر شدن, شیر و خورشید, شیر کردن, شیر کوهی, شیر یا خط, شیرافکن, شیراوژن, شیردار
چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ارسلان (ʾarslān /ʾarslān/), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan. Cognate with Uyghur ئارسلان / arslan / арслан. Compare also Kazakh ارىستان / арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz ارستان / арстан (arstan); Turkish aslan and arslan, etc.
köken: Related to Turkish aslan, from Old Turkic arslan. Kipchak form replaced original Chuvash-Bulgharic one: услан, that's related to Russian: уруслан, руслан and Hungarian oroszlán.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from Latin leōnem (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of leu. Cognate with Galician and Spanish león among others.
form of λιοντάρι (liontári) (in set phrases and learned terms) · brave man · for the constellation and the given name, see Λέων (Léon)
çekim: çoğul λέοντες · tamlayan λέοντος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn) from the accusative singular τὸν (tòn) λέοντα (léonta). Also see λέοντας m (léontas), λιόντας m (lióntas), λεοντάρι n (leontári) & λιοντάρι n (liontári).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from a Germanic source (possibly Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)). Can ultimately be traced back to Latin leō, which comes from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), a word that is possibly a Semitic or an Akkadian borrowing.
lion · leu (Romanian and Moldovan unit of currency)
çekim: çoğul lei · tamlayan leului
köken: Either inherited or a later learned borrowing from Latin leō (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). All the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form leōnem or genitive leōnis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also lăun and Lăune(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie. For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the…
aile: leoaică, leoaie
Moneda națională este leul, iar subdiviziunea acestuia, banul.
Etimoloji
From *arslan "lion" (compare Old Turkic [script needed] (arslan, “lion”)), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan. Cognate with Kazakh арыстан (arystan) Kyrgyz арстан (arstan), Southern Altai арслан (arslan), Uzbek arslon, Uyghur ئارسلان (arslan), Azerbaijani aslan, Turkish aslan/arslan, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar arslan, etc.