world · universe, cosmos, existence · world, hereunder, worldly life
çekim: çoğul عَالَمُون · tamlayan عَالَمٍ
köken: Borrowed from Aramaic עָלְמָא / ܥܳܠܡܳܐ (ʿāləmā) or Hebrew עוֹלָם (ʿōlām), possibly from Akkadian 𒂖𒆷𒈬𒌋𒀀 (/ellamu, illamu/, “front, before; both temporally and in location; coming before your time or being currently physically before you now”). The pattern فَاعَل (fāʕal) The pattern فَاعَل (fāʕal) is considered originally foreign to Arabic and Ethiopic, occurring only in likely loanwords such as…
köken: Inherited from Chagatai جهان (jahān), from Classical Persian جهان (jahān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (gyhʾn' /gēhān/). Cognate with Uyghur جاھان / jahan / җаһан. Doublet of ochun.
world (the Universe) · world (the Earth) · world; humanity (human beings collectively)
çekim: çoğul mundos
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mundo, from Latin mundus (“world”).
aile: correr o mundo, do mundo, do outro mundo, ir para o outro mundo, meio mundo, mundão, mundinho, não ser deste mundo, novo mundo, o melhor dos mundos
universe; cosmos; macrocosm; space · roof, ridgepole and beams (of a house) · heaven and earth; all under heaven; country
köken: Attested in several pre-Qin texts. Meyer (2010) proposes that "eaves and roof beams" was a synecdoche for a domicile's entire space; this figure of speech would later be appropriated by early authors and later Huainanziʼs contributors as "a metaphor for the cosmos, taking “eaves” [宇] and “roof beams” [宙] to represent the dimensions of space and time[, respectively] that compose the entire…
a fairy tale · a story, a tale (more generally) · a saga
çekim: çoğul sagor · tamlayan sagas
köken: From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. First attested in the mid-14th century Cognate with Danish saghæ, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Icelandic saga, German Sage, English saw. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.