köken: From Middle High German trache, from Old High German trahho, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, borrowed from Latin dracō. The modern initial d- is influenced by the original Latin, reinforced by dialectal German forms.
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾcydhʾk' /az(i)dahāg/) / Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫉𐫅𐫍𐫀𐫃 (ʾzdhʾg /azdahāg/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀 (aži.dahāka, “Azhi Dahaka”), name of a mythical serpent in Zoroastrianism, from 𐬀𐬲𐬌 (aži, “snake; dragon”), from Proto-Iranian *Háǰiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háǰʰiš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, *h₃égʷʰis (“snake”). Related to the…
A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent. · The standard of a Roman cohort, shaped like an Egyptian crocodile ('dragon') head. · The astronomical constellation Draco.
çekim: çoğul dracōnēs · tamlayan dracōnis
köken: From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).