köken: From Middle High German vledermūs, from Old High German fledarmūs, from *fledara (“wing”) + mūs (“mouse”). Displaced older mūstro (“bat”), found also in the combination form fledaremūstro/fledarmūstro.
bat (a small flying mammal of the order Chiroptera) · a charge depicting the animal of the same name
çekim: çoğul chauves-souris
eş: rate-volage, souris-chauve, souris volante
köken: Used as early as the 8th century in Gallic Late Latin calva sōrex (“bald mouse”); the first element ("bald") may originally be an alteration of Vulgar Latin *cawa (“crow, tawny owl”). Equivalent to chauve (“bald”) + souris (“mouse”). Compare Late Latin mūs caecus (“bat”, literally “blind mouse”).
aile: chauve-souriceau, chauve-souris bourdon, chauve-souris de mer, chauve-souris rhinolophe, chauve-souris vampire, chauve-souris-garou, poisson chauve-souris, renard à oreilles de chauve-souris, sphinx chauve-souris
bat (any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera) · night person
çekim: çoğul morcegos
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *múHs Proto-Italic *mūs Latin mūs Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos Proto-Italic *kaikos Latin caecus Vulgar Latin mūrem caecum Old Galician-Portuguese murcego Portuguese morcego Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese murcego, from Vulgar Latin *mūrem caecus, by surface analysis, mure (“mouse”) + cego (“blind”). Compare Galician morcego, Spanish murciélago.
köken: First attested as Middle Korean ᄇᆞᆰ〯쥐〮 (pǒlkcwúy) in the Gugeup ganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 6:68a, 1489, seemingly a compound of some *ᄇᆞᆰ〯 (*pǒlk) + 쥐〮 (cwúy, “rat”). Folk etymology commonly attributes the first component to ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 (pòlktá, “to be bright”), supposedly reflecting a popular belief that bats have bright eyes that allow them to see at night. However, ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 has an initial low…
a bat; a nocturnal flying mammal · a promiscuous woman
çekim: çoğul fladdermöss · tamlayan fladdermusens
köken: From Old Swedish flædhermus. Equivalent to fladder (“fluttering”) + mus (“mouse”). Slang sense influenced by pussy sense of mus – "flutter-pussy."
From Proto-Turkic *yar (“bat”) + *kānat (“wing”). Alternatively explained as Proto-Turkic *yarï-kānat (“membrane-wing”), equivalent to Bashkir яры (yarı, “membrane”) + ҡанат (qanat, “wing”). However, this version is dismissed by some researchers as folk etymology. Cognate with Kazakh жарғанат (jarğanat), Tatar ярканат (yarqanat), Kyrgyz жарганат (jarganat), Southern Altai јарганат (ǰarganat),…