köken: Inherited from Old French cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre, from Latin Cyprium, cupreum (aes) (compare cuprum) from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kŭ́pros, “Cyprus”). It was not uncommon for Greek short ῠ (pronounced in Classical Attic as /y/) to be adapted as Latin short ŭ. This would normally yield Proto-Western-Romance *[o], but a following palatal sound apparently could cause *[o] to be raised to *[u]…
köken: Uncertain; attested at least from the Amarna period in Northwest Semitic; compare Phoenician 𐤍𐤇𐤔 (nḥš), Hebrew נְחֹשֶׁת (n'khóshet, “copper”), Ge'ez ናሕስ (naḥs), Aramaic נחשׁ (“copper, bronze”), and Nehushtan: * From Proto-Semitic *naḥaš- (“snake, reptile; divination, incantations; to learn secret things”), such a sense derived from hissing equated to whispers. The process of extracting ore and…
copper (reddish-brown, malleable metal) · copper · a small amount of money; little change
çekim: çoğul cobres
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin cuprum (“copper”), from Latin cyprium (aes) (“Cypriot copper”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος (Kúpros), because Cyprus was its chief source.
brass (alloy of copper and zinc) · object made of brass · musical instruments made of brass
çekim: çoğul alămuri · tamlayan alame
köken: Probably from Greek μάλαμα (málama, “gold”), compare Aromanian malamã (“gold”), Megleno-Romanian amálomă (“gold”), Albanian malamë (“gold”). The loss of the initial m can be attributed to influence from aramă (“copper”). Compare also Italian lama (“metal plate”), Serbo-Croatian lama, lim.
Etimoloji
From Proto-Turkic *yeŕ (“brass, copper”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (jez, “copper”), Southern Altai јес (ǰes), Kyrgyz жез (jez), Tatar җиз (ciz), Khakas чис (çis), Tuvan, Shor чес (čes, “copper”).