people, nation, folk, tribe, race (group united by culture, history, descent, and/or language) · people, population, citizens · common people, the lower classes, the working classes
çekim: çoğul Völker · tamlayan Volkes
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old High German folc Middle High German volc German Volk From Middle High German volc, from Old High German folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, Proto-Germanic *fulką. Cognate with Dutch volk, English folk, Swedish folk, Norwegian Bokmål folk, Norwegian Nynorsk folk, Icelandic fólk and Danish folk. Doublet…
people (nation, distinct ethnic group) · the people, the general population, the common folk
çekim: çoğul peuples
eş: nation, peuplade, plèbe, populace
köken: Inherited from Middle French peuple, from Old French pueple, semi-learned form of pueble, from earliest Old French poblo (9th c.), from Latin populus, from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”). Doublet of people and pueblo.
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian خَلْق (xalq), from Arabic خَلْقٌ (ḵalqun). Compare to Kazakh халық (xalyq), Southern Altai калык (kalïk), Shor қалық, Khakas халых (xalıx), etc.
people · hamlet (a small village or a group of houses) · village
çekim: çoğul povos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.
köken: From Middle Chinese compound 人民 (MC nyin mjin). Compare modern Mandarin 人民 (rénmín), Wu 人民 (⁶zen-min₆), Min Nan 人民 (jîn-bîn). Formerly pronounced with a consistent 呉音 (goon) reading of ninmin, later changing to a mixed 漢音 (kan'on) / 呉音 (goon) reading of jinmin.
aile: 人民委員: commissar, 人民委員会: commissariat, 人民解放軍: the People's Liberation Army, 人民憲章: the People's Charter, 人民公社: a people's commune, 人民裁判: a people's court, 人民主義: populism, 人民主権, 人民戦線: a popular front, 人民大会堂: the Great Hall of the People
people (collectively, as members of society) · humanity; humans (as a collective); humankind; the human race
eş: 一般人, 世人, 世間人, 世间人, 人士, 人群
köken: Attestable in pre-Qin texts as a term meaning "common people". Modern sense first attested in An English and Chinese dictionary published in 1884 by W. Lobscheid.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic عَوَامّ (ʕawāmm), the plural of عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “majority”) (compare आम (ām) from عَامّ (ʕāmm)). Compare Punjabi ਅਵਾਮ (avām).
people, nation (community of people united by shared culture or ethnicity, or the inhabitants of a country) · people, populace (the inhabitants of a region) · people (an undefined mass of people)
çekim: çoğul kansat · tamlayan kansan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kansa (compare Livvi kanzu, Veps kanz), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō (earlier *hansā, compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌰 (hansa)).