köken: From Classical Persian آدَم (ādam), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam), from Hebrew אָדָם (āḏā́m). Compare also Karakalpak [Term?], Kyrgyz адам (adam), Tatar адәм (adäm), Bashkir әҙәм (əźəm), Uzbek odam, Turkish adam, etc.
köken: From Persian آدم (âdam), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam). Cognate with Kazakh, Karakalpak, Kyrgyz адам (adam), Tatar адәм (adäm), Uzbek odam, Turkish adam.
köken: Learned influence on άντρας (ántras), with ⟨νδ⟩ as in the ἄνδρα (ándra), accusative singular of ἀνήρ (anḗr) pronounced in Modern Greek as [nð]. Compare to the pronunciation of the inherited άντρας (ántras).
man, human, human being; person · man (adult male) · person (being that characterizes a particular thing)
çekim: çoğul ludzie · tamlayan człowieka
eş: osoba, persona, śmiertelnik, śmiertelny, gość, lub człek
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kelawaikas Proto-Slavic *čьlověkъ Old Polish człowiek Polish człowiek Inherited from Old Polish człowiek.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic عَوَامّ (ʕawāmm), the plural of عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “majority”) (compare आम (ām) from عَامّ (ʕāmm)). Compare Punjabi ਅਵਾਮ (avām).
person, figure (an individual with personhood, such as one representing a certain consciousness) · person, character (in a story) · antipersonnel
çekim: çoğul henkilöt · tamlayan henkilön
köken: henki (“life, state of being alive”) + -ilö. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1857. More information Some sources, including NSES, say that Schildt later came to dislike the word due to its ending in -ö (as it, according to him, made the word sound derisive) and tried to replace it with henkile, although without success.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech člověk, from Proto-Slavic *člověkъ, *čьlověkъ, *čelověkъ. The plural forms are inherited from Old Czech ľudie, from Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.
aile: bohočlověk, člověkohodina, nadčlověk, opočlověk, pačlověk, pračlověk, člověk člověku vlkem, člověk nikdy neví, nejen chlebem živ je člověk
individual, person · entity (that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit)
çekim: çoğul egyének
köken: From egy (“one”, numeral) + én (“I”). Its status as a compound word has faded into obscurity. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries..
Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites) · stock, tribe · nation, country
çekim: çoğul gentēs · tamlayan gentis
köken: From Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, from root *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”). See also generō, genus, gignō. Cognate with English kind, Sanskrit जाति (jāti), Ancient Greek γένος (génos) and Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis), whence English genesis.
köken: Neologism introduced by Lithuanian linguists in the early 20th century, of unclear formation logic. Perhaps created off a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-men-, from *h₁es- (“to be”).
person, human being (a member of the Homo sapiens species, capable of thinking and speaking) · person (one who is not insensitive, who is kindhearted, helpful) · people (an undefined group of men and/or women)
çekim: çoğul cilvēki · tamlayan cilvēka
köken: Borrowed from Old East Slavic человѣкъ (čelověkŭ) (cf. Russian челове́к (čelovék), from Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ, from earlier *kelověkъ). The word vīrs (“man, male”) had previously been used to mean also “human being,” given the loss of a previous specific term (cf. Lithuanian žmogùs, Latin homo); this polysemy may have motivated the borrowing.
aile: alu cilvēks, cilvēce, cilvēcisks, cilvēciskums, cilvēcība, cilvēcīgs, cilvēcīgums
From Malay orang, from Old Malay urang, from Proto-Malayic *uraŋ (“person”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀaŋ (“outsider”). Doublet of bong and wong.