köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German kerl, from Old Saxon *keril, from Proto-West Germanic *karil. Cognate with Old High German karal. Akin to Dutch kerel, English churl, Old Norse karl, Danish karl.
fellow, chap · a basic figure meant to represent a person (e.g. a stick figure, a symbol on a sign, etc.) · scarecrow
çekim: çoğul bonshommes
köken: Univerbation of bon (“good”) + homme (“man”).
aile: aller son petit bonhomme de chemin, bonhomie, bonhomme allumette, bonhomme bâton, bonhomme de neige, bonhomme sept-heures, faux bonhomme, nom d'un petit bonhomme, בונעם
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish buey, from Vulgar Latin *boem for Latin bovem (compare Italian bue), accusative singular of bōs. The variants güey and wey represent a neutralization of the clusters /bw/ and /gw/. Doublet of bife.
aile: a paso de buey, buey almizclero, buey de cabestrillo, buey de carga, buey de caza, buey de mar, buey de marzo, buey del Pacífico, buey viejo surco derecho, hablar de bueyes perdidos
beast (non-human animal) · bug; minibeast · severely aggressive person
çekim: çoğul bichos
eş: fera
köken: From Vulgar Latin *bīstius, a masculine form of bīstia, from Latin bēstia (“beast”). Doublet of besta.
aile: bichão, bichinho, bicho de conta, bicho de conta-aquático, bicho de conta-do-mar, bicho de estimação, bicho de pelúcia, bicho de sete cabeças, bicho do mato, bicho-barbeiro
sort, type, mould, stamp (of a person character) · model, type (of car, etc) · shape, form
çekim: çoğul τύποι · tamlayan τύπου
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos). The colloquial meaning of "guy, chap" is a semantic loan from French type. Sense "the press", semantic loan from French presse.
a boy · a (younger) adult male person; a guy · a boyfriend
çekim: çoğul killar · tamlayan killes
köken: Attested since 1924. From dialectal kille (“goat kid, small boy”), originally diminutive to kid (“fawn, originally also goat kid”). See also killing (“goat kid”) which also is a diminutive of kid.
köken: Either a loan from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend, boyfriend”), or a blend of kamraati + toveri. The former of these is now considered more likely. The word is also attested in the sense “companion (in crime)”, so it may have originated in argot.
bastard, illegitimate child · boy, lad, youth · brave man
çekim: çoğul ბიჭები · tamlayan ბიჭის
köken: Perhaps from Old Georgian ბიჭი (bič̣i, “crumbs”). For the sense development compare Russian кро́шка (króška, “crumb; baby, little one”). Alternatively, together with Middle Armenian բիճ (bič, “bastard”) borrowed from Iranian: compare Northern Kurdish bîj, bîjî, Central Kurdish بیژوو (bîjû, “bastard”).
köken: Umlaut of Middle Bengali ছেলিয়া (cheliẏa, “young person or animal”), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀙𑁂𑀮𑀺𑀅𑀓 (cheliaka), from 𑀙𑁂𑀮𑀺𑀅 (chelia) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from earlier Ashokan Prakrit *𑀙𑀬𑀮𑀺𑀅 (*chayalia), from Sanskrit छगलिक (chagalika, “kid, young goat”), from छगल (chagala, “goat”) + -इक (-ika); the semantic shift of a word for the young of a farm animal to mean the offspring of people is…
köken: From oue (“old one”), from Dutch ouwe, dialectal/colloquial form of oude. The sense “mate, guy” exists in Dutch as well; compare further German Alter.
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