köken: Inherited from Old Spanish sangusuela (c. 1250, in Libro de los animales que caçan), from Latin sanguisūga (“leech”) + -uela (“diminutive suffix”). Less likely, from earlier sanguja (“leech”) + -uela. Note that sangusuela is attested earlier than sanguja (1494, in Vicente de Burgos).
köken: From earlier form زلو (zalū) from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (złwk' /zalūg/) from Proto-Iranian *jaluš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́aluš, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelu-. Akin to Old Armenian տզրուկ (tzruk); an Iranian borrowing.
köken: Several possibilities: * from Persian زالو, or influenced by it. * a derivation of Proto-Turkic *sül/*sil (“slime”). For other cases of voicing of initial /s/, compare zəngin, zindan, zopa and ziyil. * from *sülük <- *süllük <- *sümlük <- Proto-Turkic *sim-/*süm- (“to suck”).
to bloodlet · to (apply a) leech medicinally, as a method to bloodlet · to drain resources without giving back
köken: By surface analysis, ader (“vein”) + laten (“to let”), an ellipsis of Middle Dutch ter ader(en) laten (literally “to let [someone] to the vein”). Compare German zur Ader lassen.
leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)
çekim: çoğul sanguessugas
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally.