a creature, a living being, especially seen as the work of the divine Creator · anything created or devised by a person · a person who is at the mercy of another, notably in whose gift his position is
çekim: çoğul créatures
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin creatūra (like English creature), from creo, creare (“to create”).
synonym of zijn · imperative plural of zijn · used with an action verb in the infinitive to indicate that the action took place elsewhere and has been concluded
çekim: çoğul wezens
eş: zijn, bennen
köken: From Middle Dutch wēsen, from Old Dutch wesan, from Proto-West Germanic *wesan, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną. See zijn. The noun represents a substantivization of the verb and is attested as such since as early as c. 1100.
being, creature (living being) · someone's essence, nature, character
çekim: çoğul lények
köken: From the le- stem of the verb lesz (“will be”) + -ny (nominal-forming suffix). Created by Mihály Helmeczy during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
köken: From Middle Low German wesen (“existence”), German Wesen (“essence, character”), originally an infinitive, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) (= Danish være).