•to flatter, compliment, fawn, (colloquially) to butter up, soft-soap, suck up to · to coax, cajole, beguile · to toady to, truckle to, carry favor with, (colloquially) to brownnose, kiss/lick sb's ass/boots
çekim: geçmiş льсти́вший · ortaç льсти́вший · şimdiki льсти́т · ulaç льстя́щий
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic льстити (lĭstiti) (also лестити (lestiti)), from Proto-Slavic *lьstiti, derived as if from *lьstь (whence лесть (lestʹ)) + -ить (-itʹ).
to blandish, fawn, flatter, butter up (to praise someone dishonestly)
çekim: geçmiş hízelegtek
köken: From hízelkedik (“to flatter someone”) + -leg (frequentative verb-forming suffix), from an otherwise unattested stem + -lkedik. Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.
köken: Verbal derivation from מַחְמָאָה (makhma'á), itself derived from Psalms he:T:22, with translation of the New American Standard Bible: "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war".
to fawn upon · to flatter or court · to make obeisance to
çekim: ortaç adūlātus · şimdiki adūlātur · ulaç adūlāns
köken: The first component is evidently ad- (“to, toward”); the second one, however, has an obscure origin. It has been conjectured to come from an unattested *ūlos (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair; wool”), whence English wool (via Proto-Germanic) and velvet (via a Latin diminutive). Compare Lithuanian valai (“horsetail hair”) and Sanskrit वाल (vā́la, “tail of an animal; tail hair;…
word of God · commandment (a divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments)
köken: Inherited from Malay firman, from Classical Malay firman (“permission”), from Classical Persian فرمان (farmān), from Middle Persian 𐫜𐫡𐫖𐫀𐫗 (frmʾn /framān/), from Old Persian 𐎳𐎼𐎶𐎠𐎴𐎠 (f-r-m-a-n-a /framānā/). Doublet of permana.