ground, land (usually as someone's property) · bottom (of a container or a body of water) · reason; motive, cause
çekim: çoğul Gründe · tamlayan Grundes
eş: Ursache, Grundstück, Boden
köken: From Middle High German grunt, from Old High German grunt, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond, English ground. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”) and gryej (“to erode, crumble”).
excuse (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment) · justification, reason, rationale (explanation which provides support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence)
çekim: çoğul δικαιολογίες · tamlayan δικαιολογίας
köken: From Ancient Greek δικαιολογία (dikaiología), from the verb δικαιολογῶ (dikaiologô, “to justify”), from δίκαιος (díkaios, “fair”) + λόγος (lógos, “reason, cause”).
aile: δικαιολογητικός, δικαιολογήσιμος
Η δικαιολογία του ήταν ότι το λεωφορείο του καθυστέρησε.
Αντί να μου πει ότι δεν ήθελε ν’ αρθεί, μου ’πε ότι κάτι έχει να κάνει· δικαιολογίες, τώρα...
Όταν άκουσε ο δικαστής την δικαιολογία του, τον άφησε ελεύθερο.
köken: Shortened from indító (“starting”) ok (“cause, reason, motive”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.