heap, hive, pile · crowd, lot, group · feces, turd
çekim: tamlayan Haufens
köken: From a merger of Middle High German hūfe (hūf), houf (houfe), from Old High German hūfo (more southern) and houf (more northern), from Proto-Germanic *hūpô and its ablaut variant *haupaz, respectively. With the former is cognate Middle Low German hūpe, with the latter Dutch hoop, English heap. Already in Middle High German the two forms began to influence each other such that the originally weak…
köken: From Middle Dutch zwat, presumably from the root of zwaaien (“to sway”). Cognate with Middle Low German swade, swat, Middle High German swade, German Schwad, Old Frisian swethe, Middle English swathe, English swath.
group, cluster, band; crowd (of people) (number of things or persons, especially a rather large and unorganized one) · force, troop; (in the plural) troops, forces · a large quantity or amount (of something)
çekim: çoğul joukot · tamlayan joukon
köken: From Proto-Finnic *joukko, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *jaukiją or from older Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
order (the state of being well-arranged) · order (conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet) · order (a group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles)
çekim: çoğul rendek
köken: Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rędъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian rȇd.
female evil spirit or nocturnal apparition · vampire · witch; hag
çekim: çoğul strī̆gae · tamlayan strī̆gae
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίγα (stríga), the accusative of στρίξ (stríx, “owl”), which also gave strī̆x (“screech owl; witch”), probably of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (“to make a shrill sound”). Compare typologically Russian карга́ (kargá), also considered borrowed, akin to Turkish karga.