lemming, sheep (one who follows a group without thinking for himself)
çekim: çoğul moutons de Panurge
eş: mouton, normopathe
köken: From a character, called Panurge, in the book by François Rabelais. In the story, Panurge buys a sheep from a vendor and in revenge throws it into the sea. The other sheep in the flock, and the vendor himself who has jumped on the back of the final sheep, instinctively follow suit and drown in the sea too.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic агнѧ (agnę), ꙗгнѧ (jagnę) + -ёнок (-jónok), from Proto-Slavic *agnę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷn-, the stem of *h₂egʷnós. Compare а́гнец (ágnec).
lemming (small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents) · lemming, yeasayer, doormat, sheeple (someone who uncritically agrees with popular opinion or the status quo) · stereotypical centrist voter, especially a middle class Civic Platform voter
çekim: çoğul lemingi · tamlayan leminga
köken: Internationalism; compare English lemming, French lemming, German Lemming.
sheep · mutton, lamb (meat) · sheep (person who unquestioningly accepts as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopts popular opinion as their own without scrutiny)
çekim: çoğul birkák
köken: First attested in 1347. Of debated origin: * A native word. * Borrowed from Czech.
A group of large domestic animals: a herd of cattle, horses, or donkeys; such animals in a collective sense: cattle and equines. · Any other group of animals, imagined as a herd or flock; such animals collectively: beasts. · A mindless group of people: "cattle", "sheep", rabble, the mob.
çekim: çoğul pecora · tamlayan pecoris
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péḱ-os Proto-Italic *pekos Latin pecus Inherited from Proto-Italic *pekos, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱ-os (“livestock”). Related to pecū, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, domestic animals”). Cognates include Sanskrit पशु (páśu, “cattle”), Old Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece”), Old Saxon fehu, Old English feoh, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), Old Norse fé,…