köken: Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).
aile: comme une traînée de poudre, faire de la poudre, faire parler la poudre, lait en poudre, mettre le feu aux poudres, ne pas avoir inventé la poudre, poudre à canon, poudre à laver, poudre à lessiver, poudre aux yeux
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Doublet of по́рох (pórox), the inherited East Slavic form.
powder · dust (fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects) · cocaine
çekim: çoğul pós
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from earlier *pulvus n, from Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Galician po, Spanish polvo.
aile: antipó, aspirador de pó, em pó, empoar, pó de perlimpimpim, poeira, pozinho, só o pó, só o pó da rabiola
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447. as connective form ᄀᆞᆯㅇ (kolG). Also attested in the Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong eonhae (妙法蓮華經諺解 / 묘법연화경언해), 1463. as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᄅᆞ (kolo), from Old Korean *kʌlk (*kʌlk) (compare dialectal forms 가리 (gari, Gyeongsang/Jeonnam), 갈리 (galli, Gyeongsang), 갈루 (gallu, Hwanghae), 갈기 (galgi, Hamgyeong/Gangwon) and Jeju ᄀᆞ루 (gawru)). Compare also…
köken: From earlier prah, from Old Church Slavonic прахъ (praxŭ), from Proto-Slavic *porxъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pers-. Compare Serbo-Croatian prah, also Megleno-Romanian prau.
dust · powder · ashes (human or animal remains after cremation)
çekim: çoğul porok
köken: Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Uralic *porɜ (“dust, sand”), but the absence of the expected sound change *p > *f is hard to explain. Compare with Finnish poro (“burning ash, coarse dust, debris”) and Northern Mansi порс (pors, “garbage, waste, dust”).
dust, powder, ashes · an arena, place of contest · toil, effort, labor
çekim: çoğul pulverēs · tamlayan pulveris
köken: Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”), with accompanying comparanda given in the box below. Cognates * Latin pollen * Sanskrit पलाल (palāla) * Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “dust, meal”) * Albanian pluhur, Gheg Albanian pluhun (possibly) * Lithuanian pelenai * Russian пепел (pepel) * Old Church Slavonic попелъ (popelŭ), пепелъ (pepelŭ) However, De Vaan is skeptical and…