köken: From Middle High German versprechen (“to guarantee”), from Old High German firsprehhan (“to defend verbally, to warrant”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasprekan. Analyzable as ver- + sprechen. The sense “to misspeak” is a later transparent derivation (see the prefix).
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *prōmissa (“promise”) (attested in Medieval Latin per Du Cange), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
köken: From Arabic وَعْدَة (waʕda, “promise”). Doublet of уәде (uäde). Cognate with Tatar вәгъдә (wäğdä), Bashkir вәғәҙә (vəğəźə), Kyrgyz убада (ubada), Uzbek vaʼda, Turkmen wada (“promise”), etc.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai سوز (söz), from Proto-Common Turkic *söz, from Proto-Turkic *söŕ. Cognate of Uyghur سۆز (söz), Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, and Karaim söz, Kazakh and Kyrgyz сөз (söz), Karakalpak sóz, Tatar сүз (süz), etc.
promise; vow · something which is hoped for · likelihood
çekim: çoğul promessas
zıt: improbabilidade
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese promessa, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
aile: promessa de compra, promessa é dívida, quebrar promessa
Os colonos foram às Américas com a promessa de uma vida nova.
köken: Inherited from Sanskrit पण (paṇa) with possible influence from Sanskrit प्रतिज्ञ (pratijña). Cognate to Gujarati પ્રણ (praṇ), પણ (paṇ, “vow, promise”).
promise, pledge · rising star, emerging talent, promising talent (person) · nomination whist, oh well (card game in which one aims to winning exactly the bid number of tricks)
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).