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)).
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.