köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neyH-der.? Sanskrit नील॑ (nī́la)der. Middle Persian 𐭭𐭩𐭫 (nīl) Classical Persian نِیل (nīl) Middle Persian 𐭪 (k /-ak/) Classical Persian ـَک (-ak) Classical Persian لِیلَک (līlak)bor. Arabic لِيلَك (līlak)bor. French lilac French lilas Frequently until the nineteenth century lilac, borrowed in the seventeenth from Arabic لِيلَك (līlak).
köken: From Persian گلگون (gol-gun, “rosy, pink”). Compare Kyrgyz күлгүн (külgün), Turkmen gülgün, Ottoman Turkish گلگون (gülgün), Turkish gülgûn, etc.
segol (a Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֶ) in the form of three dots arranged as an upside-down triangle, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e/)
çekim: çoğul סֶגוֹלִים
köken: Borrowed from Aramaic סְגוֹלָא / ܣܓܘܿܠܵܐ (sḡōlā, “cluster”), due to its graphic shape thought to resemble grapes. Accordingly, in the earliest Hebrew-language Masoretic treatises with shva on the samekh. Doublet of אֶשְׁכּוֹל (eshkól).