scoundrel, villain, blackguard, bastard, degenerate · Term of abuse
çekim: çoğul canalhas
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder. Latin canēs Latin canisder. Vulgar Latin *canālia Italian canagliabor. Portuguese canalha Borrowed from Italian canaglia, ultimately equivalent to cão + -alha.
köken: From Byzantine Greek σκουλήκι (skoulḗki) < σκουλήκιν (skoulḗkin) from σκουλήκιον (skoulḗkion) from Ancient Greek σκωλήκιον (skōlḗkion), a diminutive of σκώληξ (skṓlēx). Compare σκούληκας (skoúlikas) and σκώληκας (skólikas).
köken: From Early Modern Korean 되야지 (twoyyaci), 도야지 (doyaji). Appears to be related to Middle Korean 돝 (twòth). Perhaps from unattested *돌 (*dol, “pig, swine”) + -아지 (-aji, “diminutive suffix”) with a development similar to 말 (mal) and 망아지 (mang'aji) with the latter's dialectal and historical forms such as Korean 매아지 (maeaji) and Middle Korean ᄆᆞ야지 (moyaci), ᄆᆡ야지 (moyyaci), which seem to phonologically…
someone despicable, scum · someone weak, spineless, insignificant, etc. · a disagreeable or pitiable (pity-evoking) animal (like "pitiful," but used as a generic invective towards disagreeable animals)
çekim: çoğul kräks · tamlayan kräks
köken: Deverbal from Old Swedish kræka (“to crawl”), possibly with the original sense "to curve" (and if so, related to krake and krok). Originally of smaller creeping or crawling animals, "lower" animals. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk krek.
swine, pig (mammal) · wild boar · inkblot (a blot of ink)
çekim: çoğul disznók
köken: Borrowing from an Oghur language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash сысна (sysna, “pig”), Eastern Mari сӧсна (sösna, “pig”). Dialectal gyisznó retains an older form of the word.