synonym of Peitsche (“whip”) · scourge (whip used for flagellation) · scourge (persistent source of harm, especially when seen as divine punishment)
çekim: çoğul Geißeln · tamlayan Geißeln
eş: Bakteriengeißel, Flagellum
köken: From Middle High German geisel(e), from Old High German geisila (“whip”). Cognate with Dutch gesel. The spelling with -ß- reflects sporadic devoicing; compare the frequent pronunciations of niesen or Preiselbeere. Its use for distinguishing between Geißel and Geisel (“hostage”) is an arbitrary convention, which fully established itself only around 1900. (The two words are not related but became…
aile: begeißelt, Geißel der Menschheit, Geißelhieb, geißeln
whip (a pliant, flexible instrument used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals) · the vertical rope of a shadoof where the bucket is hung · flagellum (a lash-like appendage that protrudes from the cell body of certain bacterial cells)
çekim: çoğul ostorok
köken: From Proto-Ugric *oćtɜrɜ (“sprout, shoot, twig; whip”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáštraH.
aile: ostoros, ostoroz, lovaglóostor, végén csattan az ostor