to be bright, to be brilliant · to be light, to be clear · to be acute, to be keen, to be learned
çekim: geçmiş 밝았다
eş: 환하다
zıt: 어둡다
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 (Yale: pòlk-tá). Alternation of Middle Korean 븕다〮 (Yale: pùlk-tá, “to be red”, whence modern Korean 붉다 (bukda)); see there for more. From Old Korean 明斤 (*POlk).
pale (light in color) · livid, pallid, bleak · fictional, mendacious
çekim: karşılaştırma blekare · üstünlük blekast
köken: From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Cognate with English bleak, Dutch bleek, Low German blek, German bleich, Danish bleg, Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek, Norwegian Nynorsk bleik, Faroese bleikur, Icelandic bleikur.
white (bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light) · white (grey, as from old age, having silvery hair, hoary) · pale, white (having a color lighter than others)
çekim: karşılaştırma bielszy · üstünlük najbielszy
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Slavic *bě̃lъ Old Polish biały Polish biały Inherited from Old Polish biały.
pale, wan (having a light color of low saturation) · faded, discolored (that has lost some of its former color)
çekim: karşılaştırma fakóbb · üstünlük legfakóbb
köken: From fa (“wood”) + -kó (diminutive suffix). Originally meant “made of wood”, later it developed the sense of “resembling the colour of wood”, and eventually “plain, featureless”.