köken: From the onomatopoeic interjection bums, bum + -sen (iterative suffix). The sexual sense rose to prominence in the mid of the twentieth century, when before rumsen was used the same way, now not known any more.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish ballena, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina).
whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones) · landwhale (an obese person)
çekim: çoğul baleias
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
köken: First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 고래 (Yale: kwòlày). Compare Japanese 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *velьrybъ, a partial calque of Middle High German walvisch, affected by Proto-Slavic *velь (“great”), hence literally “great fish” or “giant fish”. By surface analysis, vel- + ryba.