leave (time off, absence from work, etc.) · holiday, day off · furlough
çekim: çoğul congés
eş: acquit, passavant, laissez-passer
köken: Inherited from Old French congié, cungié, cunged, congiet, cumgiet, from Latin commeātus. As an architectural term, a calque of Ancient Greek ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ, “a leave, an escape; an architectural feature”).
aile: congé de maternité, congé de paternité, congé maladie, prendre congé
köken: From a Dio (“to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Compare Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, and Spanish adiós; Catalan adeu; Dutch ajuus; English, French, and Occitan adieu; German tschüss; Greek αντίο (antío); Galician and Portuguese adeus; Maltese addiju; Mirandese adius; Romanian adio; Serbo-Croatian ади̏о/adȉo; Slovene adȋjo.
exemption, permission · farewell · indulgence (a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution)
çekim: çoğul búcsúk
köken: Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“empty, free”). Its meaning developed from the original “exemption” in two ways: * permission to leave → bidding farewell → farewell, and * absolution, remission → pilgrimage for this goal → commemoration → the feast on this occasion.