character, letter (symbol for a word or a sound) · type, typeface, font, print · character, nature, disposition, temper (distinctive psychological attitudes, qualities and features of a person or animal)
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭲𐭫 (ʾhtl /axtar/), an ancient backformation from 𐭠𐭯𐭠𐭧𐭲𐭫 (ʾpʾhtl /abāxtar/, “planet”), due to a mistaken folk etymology that the first element ab- was a negative suffix, since Zoroastrianism considers the planets to be nefarious "un-stars" due to their astronomically odd behavior.
ای شهنشاه بلند اختر، خدا را همتی تا ببوسم همچو اختر خاک ایوان شما
اختر نیک
باز این منم که از غم روی چو ماه تو شب تا به صبح، دیدهٔ من پر ز اختر است
köken: Compare to Kazakh белде (belde, “milestone”). This term in Bashkir has largely displaced билге (bilge, “sign”), which has an extensive list of cognates across Turkic languages (see Proto-Turkic *belgü (“sign”)).
köken: From Old Swedish iærtekn, iærtighne. Uncertain origin. The first half of compound probably from Proto-Germanic *erknaz and related to Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 (airkns) and Middle High German erchan. Cognate of Icelandic jarteikn, Danish jærtegn.
gesture (motion of the limbs or body) · gesture (act or remark)
çekim: çoğul gesty · tamlayan gestu
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Italic *gezō Latin gerō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin gestuslbor. Polish gest Learned borrowing from Latin gestus.
to sign (a document etc.) (to validate or ratify by writing one's signature on it) · to sign (one's name) (to write (one's name) as a signature) · to subscribe to, agree with (a statement, idea, theory etc.)