mortar, trench mortar (lightweight, often portable artillery piece which transmits recoil to a base plate) · rocket launcher (Katyusha and similar World War II-era systems) · torpedo tube
çekim: çoğul миномёты · tamlayan миномёта
eş: мортира
köken: From ми́на (mína) + -о- (-o-) + -мёт (-mjót), combining form of мета́ть (metátʹ). Calque of German Minenwerfer.
mortar (vessel used to grind ingredients, especially spices or pharmaceutical preparations)
çekim: çoğul γουδιά · tamlayan γουδιού
eş: καυκιά, χαβάνι
köken: From Byzantine Greek γδί(ν) (gdí(n)), from Koine Greek ἰγδίον (igdíon), diminutive of Ancient Greek ἴγδις (ígdis), of Pre-Greek origin (evidenced by cluster "-γδ-" per Beekes). Ultimate origin may be from Hurrian 𒀉𒆠 (/idki, itki/, “mortar”), from the root 𒀉 (/id-/, “to beat”). Doublet of ιγδίο (igdío).
launcher (device that throws something) · trap (device that slings clay pigeons in the air in trapshooting) · projector (in certain compounds, e.g. piirtoheitin)
çekim: çoğul heittimet · tamlayan heittimen
köken: heittää (“to throw”) + -in (instrumental noun suffix)
mortar (a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle) · mortar (fire weapon)
çekim: çoğul mozsarak
köken: From a Germanic language. Compare Middle High German morsær, German Mörser. The German word is from Latin mortārium (“mortar”). First attested in Hungarian in 1405.