burdock · a bur (a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing) · a clingy person
çekim: çoğul Kletten · tamlayan Kletten
eş: Klettfrucht
köken: From Middle High German klette, from Old High German kletta f, kletto m, from Proto-Germanic *klīþô, from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”), from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Cognate with Old Saxon kledda f, kleddo m and Middle Low German klette. Related to klettern (“to climb”) and Kleid (“dress”), also Middle Dutch clisse, Dutch klis, Old English cliþe, clāte and English…
burdock, common name of various plants with sticky shoots or seeds · bur, (idiomatic): beggar's lice, hitchhiker, sticker, sticker bur, (although grammatically incorrect, also written as): burr · an unwelcome person who attaches themselves to someone else
burdock (Arctium lappa) · a penis; a cock; a stalk
köken: Certainly from Middle Chinese 牛蒡 (MC ngjuw pangX), but with a shift from the expected go-on reading of *guhō (or with rendaku as *gubō); compare Korean 우엉 (ueong). First cited to the Iroha Jiruishō (1177-1181).
köken: Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 우방 (牛蒡, ubang, “burdock”). First attested in 1489 as Middle Korean 우ᅌᅯᇰ〯 (Yale: wuweng), from unattested intermediary form *우ᄫᅯᇰ (Yale: *wuWeng).
köken: Inherited from Latin ēricius, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”). The expected normal result would have been *ariț, and explanations for the current form include an intermediate Vulgar Latin *ērix, ēricis or alternatively *ēriciō, ēriciōnem, in which case it would be regressively derived from a hypothetical Romanian *ariciune (compare French hérisson, Catalan eriçó, Romansh erizun). It…
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Ottoman Turkish بالدران (baldıran). See German Baldrian for more.
köken: Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) – to which labium and lambō –, Proto-Slavic *lopěnъ (“burdock”) is also suggestive.
köken: From Proto-Slavic *rěpьjь. Equivalent to реп (rep, “bur”) (dialectal) + -ей (-ej). Dialectally also known as Bulgarian ре́пел (répel), рьо́пель (rjópelʹ), ре́пен (répen) (possibly from Proto-Slavic *rěpьlь, *rěpělь).