person with moderate learning difficulties · idiot, moron, imbecile
çekim: çoğul βλάκες · tamlayan βλάκα
eş: χαζός, ανόητος, κουτός, κουτορνίθι, μπούφος
zıt: έξυπνος
köken: Inherited from Ancient Greek βλάξ (bláx, “soft”) from the accusative singular τὸν (tòn) βλάκα (bláka), from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”) (through *μλάξ [mláx] > *μβλάξ [mbláx]). Cognates include Latin mollis (“soft, mild”), Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdú, “soft, mild, weak”) and English mild.
clown, acrobat, entertainer, performer · mask in traditional plays
köken: First attested in the History of Goryeo (고려사/高麗史), 1451, as Middle Korean 廣大 (Yale: kwangtay). The History is written based on earlier sources and the word is cited in relation to an early 14th-century figure, so the word was probably used at that time. : The hanja form 廣大, sometimes still used, is unetymological. In the hangul script, first attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as…
köken: Unknown. First attested in the 20th century. * Bruckner suggests a derivation from bucefał; supprted by Karłowicz, Sławski, and Długosz-Kurczabowa. * Bańkowksi suggests a derivation from dialectal German *Bandspfahl, from Band (“bonds”) + Pfahl (“pole”).
brute, ass, asshole, idiot · herd of cattle · head of cattle, animal of the species Bos taurus
çekim: çoğul barmok
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Old Turkic barım (“riches”).
donkey, ass · ass, cretin, idiot, dolt, blockhead, donkey (a slow-witted, inept person)
çekim: çoğul asinī · tamlayan asinī
eş: iūmentum, onager, onagrus
köken: Usually compared to Ancient Greek ὄνος (ónos) (which cannot be its direct ancestor), and, just like other IE words for "ass", must be traced back to an unknown substrate source in Asia Minor (compare Hieroglyphic Luwian [script needed] (tarkasna), Sumerian 𒀲 (anše)). The lack of rhotacism of the single intervocalic -s- after a short vowel would point to a recent borrowing.
aile: asellus, asina, asinārius, asinīnus, asinus ad lyram, asinus asinum fricat, asinus in tegulīs, asinusca, pōns asinōrum, quī asinum nōn potest, strātum caedit
Neque egō hominēs magis asinōs umquam vīdī[…]quōs quom feriās, tibi plūs noceās.
Quid tū autem huic, asine, auscultās?
Quid nunc tē, asine, litterās doceam? Nōn opus est verbīs, sed fustibus.