•any material used for stuffing · tufts or masses of hair removed from the skin of short-haired animals before tanning · waste from hackling or spinning of wool or silk; linters, flock
plug; something intended to plug · plug; clot; something that happens to plug
çekim: tamlayan Pfropfens
eş: Stopfen, Stöpsel
köken: From Middle Low German proppen, prop, borrowed into East Central German and thence into the standard language (early 18th century). The modern form is a secondary adaptation to the Upper German consonantism, based formally on the verb pfropfen (“to engraft”, eventually from Latin propago), which in Low and Central German had the form proppen, thus identical to the unrelated noun. Cognate with…
a swab, plug made of paper, cloth, slime or some other suitable material · a piece of paper or similar which has been crumpled into a ball-like shape, usually though not necessarily with the intent of throwing it away; a wad of paper · an embolism
çekim: çoğul proppen
köken: Inherited from Middle Dutch proppe. Further etymology unknown.
köken: From a dialectal German *Fleituch (“cleaning rag”), from fleien + Tuch. Compare attested Fleilauge (“lye for rinsing”, 16th c.). The underlying verb is from Middle High German vlæjen ~ vlöuwen (“to wash”), probably from the same root as Polish pławić.