diminutive of arbor: sapling (small tree), shrub, bush · tuft of feathers etc. resembling a bush · wood bored to receive an axle, therefore possibly the nave of a wheel
çekim: çoğul arbusculae · tamlayan arbusculae
köken: From arbor (“tree”) + -cula (diminutive suffix) (built on the originally s-final stem of the noun, attested also in the archaic nominative form arbōs). Compare typologically Turkish ağaççık (a diminutive of ağaç).
a fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant; seed
çekim: çoğul benih-benih
köken: Inherited from Malay benih, from Proto-Malayic *bənih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *binəhiq, Proto-Austronesian *binəSiq (“seed set aside for the next planting”). Cognate with Javanese winih and Tagalog binhi.
plant, plantlet, seedling (young, usually not large plant, which was grown from planted seeds, cuttings, etc. and, if need be, transferred to a permanent place)
çekim: çoğul stādi · tamlayan stāda
köken: From Proto-Baltic *stādas, from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *steh₂- (“to stand, to place”) (whence also stāt, stāvēt, q.v.) with an extra suffix *-dʰo. The original meaning was probably “that which stands”, from which “that which was planted (and is standing)”. Cognates include Lithuanian stõdai (“untrimmed vegetable seedlings”), stõdas (“herd of animals”) (< “stand, stall”), Russian, Ukrainian…