moustache, mustache; moustaches, mustaches · whisker, whiskers (used when it's large and thick) (often in plural)
çekim: çoğul bigotes
eş: bigotes, mostacho, bozo, bigotera, bocera
köken: Perhaps from German bei Gott (“by God”), because, when taking an oath, some men, once they said "by God", aimed at the upper lip with the index finger, symbolising forming the cross with the fingers and kissing it. Compare Portuguese bigode and English bigot.
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic усъ (usŭ), from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ < *vǫsъ < *vǫdsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wónsa, from Proto-Indo-European *wondʰsom, s-expansion of root *wendʰ- (“hair, wool, beard”).
moustache, mustache · whisker (long projecting hair at the sides of the mouth of a cat)
çekim: çoğul bigodes
köken: Unknown. Theories include: * from Middle High German bi got (“by God”) (modern bei Gott (“by God”)), due to the use of moustache by Landsknecht mercenaries; * from vigote, diminutive of viga (“beam”). Cognate with Galician bigode, Mirandese, Asturian, Spanish, and Aragonese bigote and Catalan bigoti.
moustache · whisker (one of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal) · barbels (whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark)
çekim: çoğul bajuszok
köken: Of unknown origin.
aile: bajszos, bajuszos, bajszú, bajuszú, bajuszka, somolyog, mosolyog, bazsalyog a bajsza alatt
1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember (Timar’s Two Worlds), part 1, chapter 2, translated by Mrs. Hegan Kennard
Shortened from snorbaard, a borrowing from Low German snurbaard. Compare German Low German Snurrbaart, Saterland Frisian Snurboart, West Frisian snor, German Schnurrbart. The word is earliest attested in Dutch language in 1844.