köken: From Middle High German rëgenboge, from Old High German reginbogo, from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō. Equivalent to Regen (“rain”) + Bogen (“bow, arch, arc”). Compare Dutch regenboog, English rainbow, Yiddish רעגנבויגן (regnboygn), Danish regnbue, Icelandic regnbogi.
köken: Etymology tree Arabic قَوْس (qaws) Arabic قُزَح (quzaḥ) Arabic قَوْس قُزَح From قَوْس (qaws) + قُزَح (quzaḥ). Literally, “bow of Quzah”, named after Quzah, a pre-Islamic Arab god of weather.
köken: Usually considered to be from Persian کمر (kamar, “arch”) + Arabic (قَوْس) قُزَح ((qaws) quzaḥ, “rainbow”). The word was then reanalyzed and reshaped as кемпір (kempır, “grandma”) + қосақ (qosaq, “a yoke for goats or sheep”) due to the folk etymology. However, note similar formations in Turkic languages: Kyrgyz жез кемпирдин көгөнү (jez kempirdin kögönü, “lit. the copper grandma's (sheep/goat)…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yā(y). Cognate with Kazakh жай (jai), Kumyk жая (jaya), Azerbaijani yay, Turkish yay, Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Shor чачақ, Tuvan ча (ça), Western Yugur ya (“arrow”), etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch regenboge, from Old Dutch *reganbogo, from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to regen (“rain”) + boog (“bow”).
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 므〮지게〮 (Yale: múcìkéy). Equivalent to 물 (mul, “water”) + 지게 (jige, “A-frame carrier”).
köken: From Sanskrit इन्द्रधनुस् (indradhanus), equal to इंद्र (indra, “Indra, god of thunder”) + धनुष (dhanuṣ, “bow, arc”), literally “the bow of Indra”.
rainbow (optical phenomenon) · stave (narrow strip of wood)
çekim: çoğul duhy · tamlayan duhy
köken: Inherited from Old Czech duha, from Proto-Slavic *dǫga (compare Greater Polish dęga "wale").
Etimoloji
Literally, “bow of the Trinity”. Calques the image of the rainbow in Genesis 9:13, reframed with explicit Trinitarian attribution: Attested principally in Carmarthenshire and Swansea, the heartland of the 18th-century Welsh Methodist Revival, that opposed Unitarianism, etc, as a probable link. Compare bwa'r arch (“bow of the Ark”), a related and likely-older dialectal form widespread across…