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: 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”)).
a character, standardized graphic symbol, such as a letter of an alphabet or a numeric digit · a character; a role, often conventionalised, in theatre · a nature, a character
çekim: çoğul karakters
köken: From Middle Dutch caracter, from Middle French caractère, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).
köken: First attested in the Eoje naehun, (御製內訓 / 어제내훈), 1475 , as Middle Korean 글시 (Yale: kulsi). Equivalent to 글 (geul, “writing”) + 쓰— (sseu-, “to write”) + —이 (-i).
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, subscribe, underwrite · to underwrite, agree with, accept
çekim: geçmiş allekirjoittanut · şimdiki allekirjoittaisi · ulaç allekirjoittava
köken: alle (“under”) + kirjoittaa (“write”), probably a calque of Middle Low German underschrīven (compare German unterschreiben), itself calqued from Latin subscrībō
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.)