León (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: León) · León (a city in Castile and León, Spain) · León (a department of Nicaragua)
çekim: çoğul leones
eş: león americano, león de montaña, puma
köken: Inherited from Latin legiōnem. The places in Spain are named after the Roman legion that settled them, the Legio VII Gemina. Doublet of legión, which was a learned borrowing. Unrelated to león.
aile: Castilla y León, León de Francia, Nuevo León
lion · faucet, tap · tiger (sometimes also applied to the leopard)
çekim: çoğul شیرها
köken: From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”). Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is from the fact that the first taps in Iran looked like lion heads.
aile: تولهشیر, شیر دریایی, شیر شدن, شیر و خورشید, شیر کردن, شیر کوهی, شیر یا خط, شیرافکن, شیراوژن, شیردار
چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر
köken: Inherited from Chagatai ارسلان (ʾarslān /ʾarslān/), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan. Cognate with Uyghur ئارسلان / arslan / арслан. Compare also Kazakh ارىستان / арыстан (arystan), Kyrgyz ارستان / арстан (arstan); Turkish aslan and arslan, etc.
köken: Related to Turkish aslan, from Old Turkic arslan. Kipchak form replaced original Chuvash-Bulgharic one: услан, that's related to Russian: уруслан, руслан and Hungarian oroszlán.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from Latin leōnem (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of leu. Cognate with Galician and Spanish león among others.
köken: From Byzantine Greek λιοντάρι(ν) (liontári(n)), from earlier λεοντάριν (leontárin), from Koine Greek λεοντάριον (leontárion), diminutive of Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).
köken: Inherited from Old Czech lev, from Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from a Germanic source (possibly Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)). Can ultimately be traced back to Latin leō, which comes from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), a word that is possibly a Semitic or an Akkadian borrowing.
lion · leu (Romanian and Moldovan unit of currency)
çekim: çoğul lei · tamlayan leului
köken: Either inherited or a later learned borrowing from Latin leō (“lion”) (around the 17th century), itself from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). All the other Romance cognates were derived from the accusative form leōnem or genitive leōnis (and some were borrowings themselves). Cf. also lăun and Lăune(le) (“a river in Romania”), as well as leoaie. For the name of the currency, it was probably based on the…
aile: leoaică, leoaie
Moneda națională este leul, iar subdiviziunea acestuia, banul.