eş: maul, cocotte, pieuvre, poste téléphonique à haut-parleur, speakerphone
köken: Inherited from Middle French tortue, borrowed from Old Occitan tortuga, tartuga, from Late Latin tartarūcha, feminine form of tartarūchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “resident or native of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Cf. also Medieval Latin tortuca. Compare Spanish tortuga, Italian tartaruga.
turtle, tortoise · tortoiseshell (carapace of a tortoise) · testudo (Roman military formation)
çekim: çoğul tartarughe
eş: testuggine, chelone, persona lenta, lumaca, lumacone, posapiano
köken: From Late Latin tartarucha, feminine form of tartaruchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “inhabitant of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Compare French tortue, Spanish tortuga.
a terrapin, or any other freshwater turtle · side-necked turtle (member of the Pleurodira suborder of turtles) · a slow or lazy person
çekim: çoğul cágados
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic *calap(p)acu, perhaps related to the etymon of cabaça. Cognate with Galician cágado (“tadpole”), Spanish galápago (“turtle”) and Catalan calàpet (“toad”). Doublet of Galápagos.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 거붑〮 (Yale: kèpwúp). Compare the *kep in 껍질 (kkeopjil, “skin, bark”), 껍데기 (kkeopdegi, “shell”).
köken: sköld (“shield”) + padda (“toad”), from Old Swedish skioldpadda, a calque of Low German schildepadde, schiltpadde; compare with Norwegian Nynorsk skjelpadde, Danish skildpadde, Norwegian Bokmål skilpadde and Dutch schildpad. Compare German Schildkröte.
turtle (any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body) · tortoise (any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae or the order Testudines, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron)) · terrapin (any of several small turtles native to North America that live in brackish or fresh water)
çekim: çoğul żółwie · tamlayan żółwia
eş: żelazna żaba
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ Old Polish żółw Polish żółw Inherited from Old Polish żółw.
turtle, tortoise, terrapin · old woman; prune (often in sexual context)
çekim: çoğul želvy · tamlayan želvy
eş: kocour, kočka
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьlvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian žołwja, Lower Sorbian žołw, Polish żółw, Serbo-Croatian žȇlvā and Slovene žélva. First attested in the 19th century.
From Low German schiltpadde, composed of * schilt (“shield”), from Middle Low German schilt, from Old Saxon skild, and * Padde (“toad”). Compare with Norwegian Nynorsk skjelpadde, Norwegian Bokmål skilpadde, Swedish sköldpadda, Dutch schildpad, German Schildpatt. Similar designations, but with different nouns as the second part, are German Schildkröte, English shield-toad.