köken: Borrowed from Ligurian ciüsma (from which Italian ciurma and Portuguese chusma descend), from Latin celeusma, from Ancient Greek κέλευσμα (kéleusma, “rhythmic chant to exhort rowers in galleys”), from κελεύω (keleúō, “to order, to bid, to exhort”). Doublet of saloma.
köken: From Biblical Hebrew כרתי ופלתי, the Cherethites and Pelethites mentioned in the Bible. Compare German Krethi und Plethi, Dutch Krethi en Plethi, Norwegian kreti og pleti.
köken: Borrowed from Arabic عَوَامّ (ʕawāmm), the plural of عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “majority”) (compare आम (ām) from عَامّ (ʕāmm)). Compare Punjabi ਅਵਾਮ (avām).
people, nation (community of people united by shared culture or ethnicity, or the inhabitants of a country) · people, populace (the inhabitants of a region) · people (an undefined mass of people)
çekim: çoğul kansat · tamlayan kansan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kansa (compare Livvi kanzu, Veps kanz), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō (earlier *hansā, compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌰 (hansa)).
a crowd, mass, mob, herd, multitude (sometimes with a pejorative sense, as in rabble, commoners, simple people) · armed band, troop
çekim: çoğul gloate · tamlayan gloate
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic глота (glota), from Proto-Slavic *glota. Compare Serbo-Croatian glota, Polish gołota (“the poor”). Doublet of holotă.