köken: Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *deywós Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás Proto-Iranian *daywáh Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /daivaʰ/) Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /dēw/) Persian دیو (dēw /div)bor. Azerbaijani div Borrowed from Persian دیو (dēw /div).
giant (mythical anthropomorphic creature of great size) written with initial capital Γίγαντας (Gígantas) · giant (large person or organisation) · giant star
çekim: çoğul γίγαντες · tamlayan γίγαντα
eş: κολοσσός
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek γίγαντας (gígantas), from Ancient Greek γίγαντᾰ (gígantă, accusative singular of γίγᾱς (gígās)).
orc (humanoid monster) · a police officer or titushky working for former Ukrainian president Yanukovych · Russian invader (a Russian, DPR, or LPR soldier participating in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine)
çekim: çoğul о́рки · tamlayan о́рка
köken: Borrowed from English orc. The pejorative usage appeared as early as in 2014, when Euromaidan activists referred Yanukovych's supporters and riot policemen as "orcs". Later it was extended in Ukrainian military slang as a term for the Russian enemy during the War in Donbass and was widely popularized by an official Armed Forces of Ukraine Facebook post on 25 February 2022.
giant, colossus (any creature or thing of gigantic size) · giant (a star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature) · giant, gigantic, huge, colossal, mammoth
çekim: çoğul óriások
köken: Of disputed origin. Either a loanword from Russian оря́сина (orjásina) or the proper noun Uriás (“Uriah”) becoming a common noun.