burdock, common name of various plants with sticky shoots or seeds · bur, (idiomatic): beggar's lice, hitchhiker, sticker, sticker bur, (although grammatically incorrect, also written as): burr · an unwelcome person who attaches themselves to someone else
köken: Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 우방 (牛蒡, ubang, “burdock”). First attested in 1489 as Middle Korean 우ᅌᅯᇰ〯 (Yale: wuweng), from unattested intermediary form *우ᄫᅯᇰ (Yale: *wuWeng).
köken: Origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *broťь, reconstructed from the plural brusturi, compare ciucure, fagure. Another theory is a derivation of Latin ustulāre (cf. ustura). It has been attempted to link it to a Germanic (Gepid) word *brustilô (“silk”), but this is unlikely. Finally, it may be linked to a Ladin word bruscandol (“hops”) found in the local speech of Comelico in northeastern…
köken: Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) – to which labium and lambō –, Proto-Slavic *lopěnъ (“burdock”) is also suggestive.
çekim: geçmiş beskar · ortaç beskåret · ulaç beskærende
köken: From be- + skære, after Middle Low German bescheren. Cognate with Swedish beskära, Norwegian Bokmål beskjære, Dutch bescheren, West Frisian beskeare, English beshear, Old Frisian biskera and Yiddish באַשערן (bashern) (See past participle באַשערט (bashert)).
köken: From Proto-Slavic *rěpьjь. Equivalent to реп (rep, “bur”) (dialectal) + -ей (-ej). Dialectally also known as Bulgarian ре́пел (répel), рьо́пель (rjópelʹ), ре́пен (répen) (possibly from Proto-Slavic *rěpьlь, *rěpělь).